The Ghana Education Service (GES) under law is responsible for the co-ordination and implementation of the approved national policies and programmes relating to pre-tertiary education.In respect to that, the GES finds it necessary to codify certain norms which will help achieve higher standard of competence and good behaviour in the service.
Teachers rationalization, according to the Ministry of Education and GES, is also one of the most important strategies for raising service standards and increasing competence.
In the nation, the service had initiated a teacher rationalization program for some time. However, in light of the GES Code of Conduct for Staffs, the service wishes to remind all teachers that "a teacher shall not refuse to go on transfer."
GES transfer service conditions;
Per the collective agreements of the teaching profession, the GES ensures that transportation and transfer grants are paid to the teachers to be transferred.
According to “Section 18; 12, of the collective agreements of the teaching profession states that the transfer of 2months gross salary shall be paid each member on approved transfer.
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“An employee shall be paid a transfer grants at the appropriate rate where the transfer is at the instance of management provided is not on disciplinary grounds.
“And the transfer results in the change of stations and as well as movements of household effect.
“Even if the transfer is at the instance of the employee concerned provided he has served a minimum of four years in one districts and provided such transfer results in the change of place of abode.
“Section 18; 3, further states that allowance based on the percentage of monthly gross salary shall be paid to teachers posted to areas designated as deprived,” he said passionately.
Some executives who spoke with nak1 said that the GES is breaking service conditions by not paying teachers what they owe, putting them in a bad situation after they get transferred.
Some people said that the exercise is good, but there are grounds to believe that teachers' rights are being violated. If their transportation and transfer grants are not met, teachers have the right to refuse transfer.
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