Teacher redeployment key to improve rural education

Redeployment of teachers from towns to rural areas has been identified as a major measure to improve on the poor education performance in Upper West Region.

This is because there are more teachers in some towns in the region especially Wa Municipality to the detriment of rural schools.

Harnessing Youthful Talents for Rural Development (HAYTAFORD) a local non- governmental organisation (NGO) in collaboration with the Northern Network for Education Development with funding from STAR-Ghana, a multi-donor pooled organisation are therefore championing the course to promote rural education.

In this regard, stakeholders including officials from Ghana Education Service, Ghana National Association of Teachers, NGOs and chiefs as well as officers from the Wa Municipal and Nadowli Assemblies have attended a forum organised by HAYTAFORD to discuss the issue.

Mr Eric Duorinaah, Director of HAYTAFORD said the aim of the forum is to afford the two assemblies the opportunity to share their experiences on the issue of teacher redeployment and to find out the effect of the 2014/15 teacher redeployment/rationalisation exercise in Wa.

He noted that since the organisation took up the campaign, about 29 surplus teachers have been released from Wa while 80 were reposted to rural areas.

He said the campaign also ensured that Wa received no teacher trainee this year while Nadowli is to receive 98 newly trained teachers to augment the teacher gap in the area.