Cletus Paaga, Upper West Regional Director of Education has stated that teachers recruited under the National Youth in Employment Programme (NYEP) were not a replacement of the existing teachers in schools.
Instead, they were to complement their efforts to improve on the standard of education throughout the country, he told the Ghana News Agency in an interview.
Mr Paaga was reacting to reports that teachers of some basic schools in the region had taken a back stage while some had abandoned their classes for new recruits.
He warned that teachers who had abandoned their posts for the new recruits while still drawing their salaries could be sanctioned for dereliction of duty.
Mr Paaga also reacted to reports that some of the newly recruited teachers were not clever enough to teach at the basic schools, saying it was too early to be making such negative allegations.
"In every society, we have all kinds of people, and even some trained teachers after school spend so many years before they become used to teaching in class and I think that if some of them for now cannot teach, it is normal," he said.
Source: GNA
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