STAKEHOLDERS IN EDUCATION ATTEND WORKSHOP (PAGE 21, OCT 9)

THE Wa West District Director of Education, Mr Salifu Iddrisu, has urged the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and the National Service Secretariat to stop the practice of recruiting and posting volunteer teachers to the district without consulting the stakeholders in education.
The call, he said, was to prevent duplication and over staffing in some schools in the district.
Mr Iddrisu made the call at a two-day workshop on results-oriented education planning organised for stakeholders in the education sector at Wechiau, the Wa West district capital.
An international non-governmental organisation (NGO), SNV, sponsored the the workshop, in collaboration with Plan Ghana.
Presenting an overview of education in the district, Mr Iddrisu stressed the need for the district assembly and other stakeholders to collaborate to bring about a holistic development for the district.
He decried the practice of posting volunteer teachers from the NYEP without recourse to his office.
“Some of these volunteer teachers flout school rules with impunity; they lack basic skills in teaching and refuse to take orders, because I am not their employer”, he added
Mr Iddrisu recounted some of the problems facing education in the district as inadequate trained teachers, high dropout rate and logistics for monitoring and supervision.
For his part, the Programme Manager of SNV for Wa Portfolio, Mr Chris Bakawere, said his outfit would collaborate with development partners in the area to improve the lot of the people.