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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday that a total of 1.6 million students have benefited from the Free Senior High School (FSHS) program.
He said that since the program began to implement in 2017, his government has recruited 93,000 teachers nationwide to facilitate effective teaching and learning in beneficiary schools nationwide.
President Akufo-Addo said this in a speech read on his behalf at the Ghana Teachers Award 2021 held in Sunyani under the theme: “Teachers Wanted: Reclaiming Teaching and Learning for human-centered recovery ”.
The National Teachers Council, with support from the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) and other partners, hosted the event to mark the celebration of World Teachers’ Day.
World Teachers’ Day focuses on the appreciation, assessment and improvement of educators around the world and provides an opportunity to examine issues related to teachers and teaching.
Established in 1994, the day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 recommendation of the International Labor Organization and UNESCO concerning the status of teachers, which is a normative instrument that deals with the status and situation teachers around the world.
President Akufo-Addo said GES recruited 40,000 teaching and non-teaching staff in 2021 and recognized teachers’ hard contributions to providing quality education amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
He therefore assured the commitment of his government to improve the general well-being of teachers for better quality education for a better level of education in the country.
GNA
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