Education policy think tank Africa Education Watch has called on the government to publish a detailed teacher posting plan for the deployment of 7,000 newly recruited teachers, urging greater transparency to ensure equitable distribution across the country.
At a press briefing on education policy monitoring outcomes, the Executive Director of Eduwatch, Kofi Asare, said the absence of clear district-level quotas risks perpetuating disparities between well-resourced and underserved communities.
He called on the Ministry of Education (Ghana) and the Ministry of Finance (Ghana) to collaborate in securing supplementary funding for teacher transfer grants, which he noted are critical to supporting postings to deprived areas.
“In line with the president’s directive on decentralised teacher postings, we call for transparency in the recruitment and deployment of teachers,” Mr Asare said. “The Ghana Education Service must publish a teacher posting plan indicating the quotas being distributed to all teacher-deprived districts receiving the 7,000 teachers.”
He explained that publishing the quotas would enable civil society organisations and the media to monitor how effectively teachers are distributed at the district level and provide feedback to improve policy implementation.
Eduwatch further announced plans to invoke the Right to Information law to obtain detailed data on teacher deployment. According to Mr Asare, the group will submit a formal request to the Ghana Education Service to track how many teachers are assigned to underserved communities.
“We are going to monitor every teacher deployed up to the school level and report to the ministry,” he said, adding that partner NGOs across rural Ghana will support the monitoring effort.
The call comes amid ongoing concerns about uneven teacher distribution, with many rural and hard-to-reach areas continuing to face shortages despite periodic recruitment drives. Eduwatch argues that transparent allocation and targeted deployment remain key to improving learning outcomes nationwide.
