Meeting the salary challenges of new teachers

Meeting the salary challenges of new teachers

They are found mainly in rural and remote areas of the country, hard-to-reach areas where others refuse to post.

Through their training, they were sensitized to agree to go wherever their services are required by Mother Ghana.

Most of them end up in areas where they are far from their parents.

They are often very excited about their new roles as shapers of the destiny of the future generation, but over the years, the enthusiasm with which they agree to free themselves fades and some of the very bright ones that would have left a mark on the ground will find their place. exit, pursued by the frustrations related to the payment of their wages.

This is an abbreviated description of what newly recruited teachers are going through every year. Unfortunately, it persisted in time, with no sign that an antidote was found.

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The Daily Graphic is stunned to find that this situation lasted all these years without being resolved once and for all, as newly recruited teachers, including those who were engaged for the dual track system, as well as others who have been promoted. , have not been paid nor put on the right salary scale for months.

But there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.

In fact, according to the Ghana Education Service (GES) management, it organized a series of meetings with the Comptroller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD), the Public Utilities Commission (PSC) and the Ministry of Finance to resolve problems in salary treatment for GHG staff that has, to date, left more than 9,000 newly recruited staff in the dual stream education system starting in November 2018 and other new teachers recruited earlier in March 201 without their first salary.

This is good news. However, we do not want to be jubilant, because over the years, the authorities have given very juicy badurances to end the annual ritual of delays in the payment of teachers' salaries, all in vain.

To the extent that we note that wages will be paid, we believe that no soldier walks empty stomach, hence the little retribution that these new teachers should give them at the same time. in advance, so that they have the peace of mind to teach our children.

We can not deny that teachers play a crucial role in the lives of children during their formative years and that they become responsible citizens of the country. Many students copy their teachers, their writing, their mannerisms and their way of walking. This indicates that what children learn from their teachers from an early age will likely remain with them in some ways for the rest of their lives.

The Daily Graphic therefore welcomes the GHG initiative to use a technology that will allow new recruit data to connect directly to the CAGD and PSC systems to expedite work, but we caution that we have already heard before. this time, we hope to tell Ghanaians in a few months that for once, the initiative was not discussed as usual but that it worked.