The Ghana Education Service Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database coordinator (IPPD) for the Upper West Region, Mr. Ziemah Nicholas has hinted that if successive government wants to reform education in Ghana, they must look at how teachers are paid.
According to Ziemah, Teachers’ living condition is the students’ learning condition.
Addressing the Wa East District delegates at the 7th quadrennial (54th) Wa East District delegate’s conference at the Pentecost Church Funsi, he mentioned that the success of any educational system depends significantly on how well its teachers are motivated, supported, and empowered.
He stated that UNISCO’s Global Education Monitoring report 2019 says teacher motivation is directly linked to student learning outcomes and teacher retention. Adding highly motivated teachers are more likely to be creative, punctual, committed, and enthusiastic about teaching.
The Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database coordinator (IPPD) said over the past five decades, Ghana has implemented a range of measures to inspire and retain its teaching workforce. One of the strategies he said was the single spine salary structure in 2010, which has streamlined public sector pay, ensuring equity, and enhancing salaries.
Highlighting some policy development by government, Mr. Ziemah Nicholas hinted that GES has been instrumental in implementing national educational policies and reforms, including the recent focus on aligning education with job market needs.
Mr. Ziemah is of the view that without motivated teachers, no curriculum or policy can be effectively implement or delivered, no student can be truly transformed, and no national education goal can be achieved.
He also emphasized that, teachers and all civil servants deserve article 71. Stating that “let teachers be paid well, that is the basic instinct of justice.
