The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Dr. Eric Nkansah, has announced the recruitment of the first batch of 2022 degree holders from colleges of education into various basic schools in the country.

Earlier this year, the Ghana Education Service received clearance from the Finance Ministry to recruit the 2022 batch of trained teachers who graduated from public colleges of education across the country.

At a press engagement by the Service, the Director-General of GES, Dr. Eric Nkansah, disclosed that a self-posting system has been introduced to allow the 12,784 newly recruited teachers to select their preferred region, district, and school of choice.

According to the service, the self-posting system is to avoid the incidence of teachers being posted to areas with language barriers and deprived conditions, which is displeasing to teachers.

"The self-placement module has the benefit of getting the newly trained teachers to be posted to regions where language will not be a barrier. Thus, they can speak the local language wherever they choose to teach, and we know that will create an effective teaching and learning environment," he said.

"In addition, the teachers get to also select schools that are close to their families and subsequently enjoy the economic support that they so need. The steps that they need to follow to access the platform to select the school of their choice are that when they visit the same GES platform they used in their application, they should enter their college index number to verify their qualification, their phone number, and their NTC number."

"This presupposes that before you qualify, you must have written the NTC exams and passed them. This is crucial since if you don’t do that, it will be very difficult to be validated and for you to be successful in your application," he added.