Some teachers have petitioned the Ghana Education Service (GES) over the delay in their promotion.
The aggrieved teachers stomped the head office of the GES demanding their promotion letters and upgrades today, July 12, 2021.
Claims by the teachers indicate that,;GES has treated them unfairly after making them believe that they have passed the 2020 Teachers Promotion Examinations and had only some documents to submit to gain their promotions.
The teachers who were about 300 stated that, they later received messages that they were unsuccessful after they had visited;the GES headquarters to submit their documents for verification.
In a petition addressed to the Director General of GES,;Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa,;the group said that the GES could not have requested unsuccessful applicants to submit documents for further verification if they had not qualified.
“The essence of requesting for further verification was to ensure that successful applicants were indeed qualified to be promoted. No examiner requests further particulars from failed candidates.”
Aggrieved teachers
In a video sighted by The Vaultz News,;the teachers are seen chanting and demanding that their issues must be heard by the GES.
Promotion exams failure, a GES error
The aggrieved teachers also claimed this was clearly an error on the part of GES;and they cannot be made to be at the receiving end of that error. They further said; the Ghana Education Service has not been fair with them with regards to dealing with their promotion examination.
“It is our opinion that the GES has not been fair to us. This is a calculated attempt to deny us promotion for reasons best known to them. We cannot unduly suffer for their ‘mistake’. They have no justification to fail us after making us believe that;we were successful in the exams and that we were promoted.”
Aggrieved teachers
In their quest to seek justice and demand clarity on the issue at hand,;the group says they are demanding their promotions by Friday, July 17, 2021. The teachers further noted that if their petition is not heard and worked, they will embark on further actions.
Clarify Promotional examinations issue
Prior to this petitioning,;the Coalition of Concerned Teachers also called on;the Ghana Education Service (GES) to clarify issues concerning the results of promotional examination released recently.
According to Kingsley Anyimadu,;leader of the Coalition, any unsatisfactory explanation will lead to the boycott of all promotional examinations going forward.
He also disclosed that;the release of the results has brought fear and panic;within the teaching fraternity and has in turn affected teachers who have tried to get proper clarification from the GES.
The group also indicated that it wants the Education Service to halt;the intended conduct of re-sit examinations for the affected teachers until;the outstanding issues are resolved.
“If these issues are not addressed,;teachers will boycott all promotion examinations and this will not augur well for the forward march of the GES.” Also
Coalition of Concern Teachers
