The Ghana National Association of Teachers GNAT has reiterated that there is still contention in instructional and contact hours of teachers in all public basic schools. The leadership of the teacher is unhappy with the way Ghana Education Service and other stakeholders in Education are handling the issue of contact hours in schools.
The Ghana National Association of Teachers in a letter to the Director-General of Ghana Education Service stated that contact and working hours of teachers in public basic schools is still wrangling which need to be redressed immediately.
According to GNAT, one of the major issues that were included in their 10th August 2021 press statement that keep on affecting teachers in basic schools is the contact and working hours and the leadership has written to draw to the attention of the Director-General of Ghana Education Service.
In the letter to the Director-General, the leadership of the Ghana National Association of Teachers stated that the instructional hours that teachers need to work per day and per week need to be urgently determined by the Ghana Education Service and the Ghana National Association of Teachers as enjoining in the collective agreement.
The union has expressed its disappointment in the Ghana Education Service for not only increases the workload of the teacher but has also failed to compensate the Teachers for the work done.
GNAT again reminds management of the Ghana Education Service and other stakeholders that this is one of the major issues that annoyed teachers and forced them to go to the National Labour Commission.
According to GNAT, last week their attention was drawn to a letter from the Ministry of Education that says teachers in all basic schools are to prepare their basic 4 pupils to write the National Standardized Test which date was scheduled outside the school’s calendar for Basic schools. The union said they find this directive worrying and frustrating to the teachers and hence there is the need for immediate redress to working and contact hours of teachers in the basic schools.
