The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to publish district-level recruitment quotas to ensure transparency and fairness in the ongoing teacher recruitment exercise.
The GES, in a vacancy notice dated April 10, 2026, opened applications for qualified graduates with a bachelor of education and related qualifications to apply for teaching positions nationwide. The application window runs from April 10 to April 17, 2026.
Speaking on the Channel One Newsroom on Sunday, April 12, Kofi Asare stressed that publishing recruitment quotas for each district would help promote accountability in the allocation and deployment of teachers.
According to him, making the quota system public would enable civil society organisations and education stakeholders to monitor distribution and ensure that teachers are deployed to areas where they are most needed.
He explained that this approach would also help address the imbalance in teacher distribution, where some districts remain overstaffed while others, particularly in deprived areas, continue to face shortages.
“We require that the GES be transparent. They should publish the quotas that they are giving to every district so that CSOs based on the quotas will go to every district and demand accountability from the district directors on how they distribute their quotas.
“We need to make sure that nobody goes to the district that is already overpopulated. We call on GES to be transparent. Publish the quotas,” he emphasised.
He further urged the government to fulfil its pledge of providing teachers with a 20 per cent deprived area incentive to attract and retain staff in underserved communities.
Meanwhile, some unemployed teachers applying for the GES recruitment exercise have raised concerns over challenges with the online application system.
According to them, some colleges of education were initially missing from the portal, forcing applicants to select institutions they did not attend in order to complete their applications.
The concerns come as thousands of graduates compete for limited teaching vacancies under the nationwide recruitment drive.
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