The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has warned that the current bottlenecks in teacher recruitment are creating a ticking time bomb for the education sector.
This, the Secretary of NUGS, Bismark Bekoe, said could have a long-term quality of the country’s human capital.
Speaking on Starr FM’s Morning Starr, Morning Star, Bekoe cautioned that if the government does not address the frustrations and administrative hurdles facing teacher trainees, the ultimate victims will be the students, who will graduate with significant knowledge deficits.
”If issues with teacher recruitment aren’t resolved, we risk producing students with limited knowledge,” Bekoe said.
He further alluded to the recent controversy surrounding the teacher recruitment portal—which reportedly opened and closed within a three-hour window—as a prime example of the “structural sabotage” hindering the sector.
He noted that when qualified, professionally trained educators are locked out of the system, schools are forced to rely on makeshift arrangements that lack the pedagogical depth required for comprehensive learning.
This “instructional vacuum,” according to NUGS, is leading to a generation of students who may pass exams but lack a deep, functional understanding of their subjects.
The NUGS Secretary has, therefore, called for a transparent, predictable, and merit-based recruitment calendar that ensures every classroom is staffed by a motivated professional.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
