We’re Making Every Effort to Pay Genuinely Recruited New Teachers- GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is exploring all efforts to ensure the payment of renumeration owed newly recruited teachers.

Some teachers have occasionally been picketing at the headquarters of the GES after 10 months without staff IDs and salaries.

The recent picketing was held on June 23, 2025, by the aggrieved teachers.

In a statement, the Service acknowledged receipt of petition presented by a section of affected teachers who assumed duty in September 2024.

It clarified that the GES recruited 12,807 graduates from the Colleges of Education in 2024.

As of December 2024, 9,950 of them had received Staff IDs and were paid. However, 2,113 had Staff IDs but could not be paid due to the expiration of financial clearance.

It said an additional 582 teachers did not receive Staff IDs because of delays in documentation.

Resolution
To resolve this challenge, the Service said it undertook a nationwide staff validation exercise from 7th-14th March 2025 to confirm genuinely recruited teachers and clean up recruitment anomalies; set up a technical committee, including representatives of the aggrieved teachers, to ensure prompt communication, feedback and coordination; and sent letters through the Minister for Education to the Ministry of Finance requesting an extension of the expired financial clearance to allow for payment processing.

“Fortunately, a budgetary allocation was made in the 2025 budget statement. GES is actively working to resolve recruitment backlogs and to prevent recurrence by addressing systemic issues in the recruitment process.”

Challenge
A challenge in the entire process, it said, had been frequent emergence of new groups of aggrieved teachers.

“With shifting leadership and inconsistent representation, it becomes difficult to track concerns and ensure progress. Every picketing exercise often involves a different set of individuals.”

It therefore appealed for coordinated, unified, and consistent representation from the teachers to help streamline the engagement process.

Assurance
It further assured that significant progress has already been made towards making the payment.

“The Service assures all affected staff that every effort is being made to rectify the situation and ensure that all genuinely recruited teachers receive their due remuneration.”

“Management remains committed to transparency, accountability, and collaboration in resolving this matter in the best interest of our hardworking teachers and the education sector at large.”

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