Certified Community Teachers Appeal to GES for Publications | Education

Some members of the Coalition of Certified Community Teachers (CCST), in the northern region, have called on the government through the Ghana Education Service (GES), to absorb them.

They said they had earned their Non-Trained Diploma in Basic Education Certificates between 2014 and 2017, with numbers registered as trained teachers, and had since passed their bachelor exams, but had not yet been hired by the GES.

They made the appeal in a statement issued by the Coalition in collaboration with the Northern Regional Youth Network and signed by Mr. Iddrisu Yussif, the CCST President, and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Tamale.

The statement read, “We began our journey to become qualified trained teachers by volunteering to teach in high schools from 2007 to date.”

“These are schools located in disadvantaged and hard-to-reach communities in the Gushegu, Karaga and Saboba districts of the North region, and the Gonja East district of the Savannah region, and between 2007 and 2018, we provided opportunities to more than 17,000 students to realize their right to a quality education ”, he pointed out.

The statement further explained that “although the district education authorities tried to fulfill their promises by getting us to be hired as professional teachers, in March 2017 they had only succeeded in hiring 30 of us and, since then, no one from our group has been hired. , despite the fact that we have met all the requirements ”.

He expressed concern about having served disadvantaged communities without pay, adding: “We have made various efforts to secure a full-time job in the Ghana Education Service, but our efforts have been in vain.”

Therefore, they asked the government and GES to formally contract them to continue providing their services to contribute to the development of children in these areas.