The Ghana Education Service (GES) announced the release of appointment letters for teachers who applied and directed them to check their status on the GES portal. However, information reaching Education-News Consult reveals that the graduate teachers’ appointment letters were never actually released by the GES.
Per the earlier announcement, educators who applied were directed to check the portal starting from 22nd November, only for the portal to go into maintenance mode. When the portal was expected to be restored, the GES released another communiqué stating that the appointment letters would be released in batches. Unfortunately, this has turned out to be another scheme by the Service to deceive teachers and the general public.
The strategy appears to be that by claiming postings will be released in batches, any teacher who has not yet been posted will believe they are in the next batch or are simply awaiting their turn.
However, many genuine educators who applied for postings have not been assigned to any schools by the GES. The sad reality is that the GES also failed to provide specific timelines for the supposed batch releases. Best practices in communication require that postings released in batches should come with exact dates, enabling educators to check their status confidently.
One might ask: Did the GES rush into making all these announcements—from opening the portal to closing it, issuing press releases about postings, and finally claiming the postings would be released in batches?
Teachers who initially received the update with joy have since been left shocked and disillusioned. Each time they check their postings, they receive feedback such as “Pending for consideration” or “You did not apply or you entered the wrong NTC Details.” This has been deeply disheartening and feels deceptive.
One of the affected educators, whose hopes have been dashed, shared this message with our publication:
“I have tried checking but get a failure accessing the portal with this message: ‘You did not apply or you entered the wrong NTC Details.’”
Another has been receiving this message since the portal opened:
“Please my status is still pending for consideration. Please help me.”
The government has seemingly deceived teachers who applied for postings, particularly those who did not use any form of protocol or lack links with the ruling NPP. Can the GES make public the exact number of teachers it has posted and the breakdown by region to convince educators that postings have actually occurred?
Until then, this noise about the GES posting teachers continues to appear as a calculated scam and deception, happening just days before an important election.
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