Dr. Eric Nkansah, The Right And Perfect Person To Assume The Position Of The Director General Of Ghana Education Service
The various teacher unions with all due respect should come out clear on their reasons for objecting to the appointment of the Acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service.
Is it the case of looking for a "soft" person they can ride over or a case of looking for a "right" person for the role of the Director General?
The mode of appointment of the Director General Of Ghana Education Service remains the prerogative of the President as stated clearly in Article 195 of the 1992 constitution and ones Educational qualification or rank in the Ghana Education Service wasn't and isn't a criteria.
The Pre-Tertiary Education Act, 2020 Act 1049, in no ambiguous term spells out clearly the Membership of the Ghana Education Service of which "any other person employed for the Education Service is included. The Ghana Education Service consists of Teaching and non-teaching staffs of which some occupies the position of financial controller, Chief Internal Auditor etc in the Ghana Education Service.
The union leaders should know better, that the scheme of service and progression in the Ghana Education Service ends at Director 1.
It is therefore absolutely wrong for the teacher unions to create a wrong impression that, the progression of teachers or members of the Ghana Education Service will automatically end at Director General.
Again it's absolutely unfathomable if not completely wrong for the teacher unions to say Dr. Eric Nkansah is not an Educationist and admit that people from the Accademia have assumed the role of the Director General in the past. Is Dr. Eric Nkansah not in the academia?
For Christ sake, Dr. Eric Nkansah has over 15 years of experience in academia and education policy administration, the exact function of the Director General and has also served on many governing councils in the Education Service notably at Koforidua Technical University, St. Louis College of Education etc.
The various teacher unions can go or call for strike on labour-related issues and not on the appointment of Director General or any of his Deputies.
The teacher unions can not approbate and reprobate by saying they are against the removal of Prof. Opoku- Amankwaa on his secondment at the Ghana Education Service but against the extension of contract of Lawyer Anthony Boateng and experienced Educationist.
In my candid opinion I strongly think the archaic way of doing things in the Ghana Education Service "me baa yɛ akyɛ" to outwit I have been here for long and not on ones expertise has outlived its usefulness in the Ghana Education Service hence my strong conviction that, the Ministry of Education and the President did not err by appointing Dr. Eric Nkansah as the Acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service and therefore has to be confirmed.
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