Kade SHS Head laments wrongful posting of teachers for Gold Track

Though the Ministry of Education says it has deployed over 7,000 teaching and non-teaching staff to various Senior High Schools across the country for the gold track system, it appears some of them are not up to scratch.

Some teachers on the Gold Track posted to the Kade Senior High School in the Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region do not have any knowledge on the subjects they have been sent there to teach.

This is according to the headmaster of the school, Emmanuel Nana Yaw Danquah.

“They [Ghana Education Service] is sending teachers to schools to teach certain subjects that they have not done. They have sent teachers who have done health education to come and teach mathematics,” he told reporters.

Mr. Danquah called on the Ministry of Education and GES to revise their strategies and post teachers to schools where they are really needed.

“You can see that it [the postings] was done in a bit of haste so we have written letters; given the corporate letters to take them back to the regions and the GES to repost them to schools that will need such people,” he said.

The Gold Track system forms part of the free Senior High School programme, and is helping government to overcome infrastructure challenges.

The government rolled out the Free SHS policy in September 2017 in fulfillment of its campaign promise in the build-up to the 2016 general election.

The policy has so far increased enrollment in senior high schools.

Less than a year after its implementation, a number of challenges such as the non-availability of space forced the government to adopt a new mode of operation for second-cycle institutions – the double track system which took effect in September 2018.

The system began in September 2018 and saw students in the first batch, the Green Track attending school for two months.