The Coalition of Unemployed Trained Teachers has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama, and the education authorities to reinstate the traditional batch-by-batch teacher recruitment system.
The coalition said the current recruitment approach has left thousands of trained teachers unemployed, with graduates from different years competing for limited opportunities.
According to the group, the 2022 batch of College of Education graduates remains a backlog awaiting recruitment and posting, while graduates from the 2023 and 2024 batches are also yet to secure employment.
The coalition is therefore urging the government to prioritise the recruitment of the 2022 backlog and the 2023 graduates in the upcoming teacher recruitment exercise before considering subsequent batches.
It further appealed to the government to restore the batch-by-batch recruitment system, arguing that it is a fairer and more orderly approach to employing newly trained teachers.
The coalition said prolonged unemployment has become a major burden on graduates, many of whom are struggling to cope with the rising cost of living and are in urgent need of stable income.
It also argued that the batch recruitment system would enable the Ghana Education Service to better plan school placements, allocate resources efficiently and manage its teaching workforce more effectively.
According to the coalition, restoring the system would also ensure fairness by respecting the order in which graduates completed their training and preventing earlier batches from being overlooked.
The appeal has been directed to President Mahama, the Minister for Education and the Ghana Education Service, with the coalition urging authorities to adopt what it describes as a more transparent, equitable and sustainable teacher recruitment process.
