ICT teachers in charge of Free Senior High School
enrolment in the various Senior High schools clashed with the Ghana Education
Service for the recruitment of new Information Technology Coordinators to
manage the school's database. Ministry of Education trained ICT these teachers
in the various Senior High Schools in 2017 to manage the information system in
the schools. Series of training workshops have been organised for the ICT
teachers for the past four years.
These teachers are responsible for managing the school
database, entering students data on students information systems, preparation
of school academic timetable, entering students record in the West African
Examination Council (WAEC) database.
The teachers have been performing the above roles in the
Senior High Schools since the introduction of the Free Senior High School
policy. The ICT teachers requested an allowance from the Ghana Education
Service as compensation for the additional responsibilities assigned to them.
Since 2017 the teachers have been calling on the management of the Ghana
Education Service to pay them some allowances for the additional roles they
play in the schools. No holidays for the ICT teachers who have taken the role
of ICT coordinators in the various schools, they belong to both tracks in the
double-track schools, they work throughout the academic calendar.
Management
of Ghana Education Service has given them assurances of an incentive package.
Anytime the teachers complain about allowance they are told by the GES that,
their incentive package is in the pipeline, they should be patient. The small
allowance to be paid for these teachers has been a challenge for Ghana
Education Service, but they have been able to secure a financial clearance to
recruit new ICT coordinators to take up their roles in the school.
The ICT teachers are demanding
compensation from the Ghana Education Service for the four years they have
worked as ICT coordinators without any remuneration or incentives. These
teachers have worked as ICT coordinators for the past four years and they have
gained a lot of experience in the field, at least Ghana Education Service
should have maintained them by paying a little allowance for them, they have
done voluntary work as ICT coordinators and this treatment is unfair to them.
Ghana Education Service planned to implement the new GES ICT
policy in the next academic year, students will be allowed to use smartphones
in the school to be connected to the free WiFi installed in all the seven
hundred Senior High Schools, the ICT coordinators are to manage the school
network, a software has been developed by Ghana Education Service to restrict
the use of the WiFi by students, the ICT coordinators will be responsible for
monitoring the school network.
Source: https://www.operanewsapp.com/gh
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