{"id":751247,"date":"2022-01-15T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/its-not-true-that-44000-teachers-quit-teaching-in-2021-moe-pro\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:32:58","slug":"its-not-true-that-44000-teachers-quit-teaching-in-2021-moe-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/its-not-true-that-44000-teachers-quit-teaching-in-2021-moe-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not True That 44,000 Teachers Quit Teaching In 2021 \u2013 MoE PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Education (MoE) has described as misleading and untrue a report by Africa Education Watch that some 44,000 teachers in the 2021 academic year alone quit teaching in the country.<\/p>\n

The Education Think Tank \u2013 EduWatch in its new year message quoted a provisional date from EMIS said some 44,000 (over 15%) teachers left basic schools in 2021 with no replacement. Mr. Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of Africa Educational Watch shared it on his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Select Committee of Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak in line with the Think Tank, (EduWatch) also said 44,000 teachers out of the 284,000 public basic school teachers stopped teaching last year.<\/p>\n

According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa South Constituency and Parliament Education Committee member, the 44,000 representing 15% is the highest in 20 years in the country\u2019s education system.<\/p>\n

But, the Education Ministry Public Relations Officer (PRO) reacting to the claim said no such huge number of government basic school teachers last academic year left the teaching profession for other careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me place it on record that the claim or report from Dr Clement Apaak and Africa Education Watch is from a clear misinform position,\u201d the Ministry of Education spokesman told UTV\u2019s Agya Kwabena in a late-night show on Friday, January 14th 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He explained that the 44,000 public school teachers the EMIS report claim left the teaching profession in the 2021 year are mainly Colleges of Education trainees, National Service and NABCO personnel and not professional teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat EMIS figure widely shared by some online news portals is even wrong, the actual number of the unprofessional teachers deployed to assist teaching was 34,000 and not 44,000 as the date claims,\u201d Mr Kwarteng told UTV.<\/p>\n

Sources: UTV<\/p>\n

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