Teacher absenteeism has dropped to nine per cent, the National Teaching Council, has announced.
The trend is a significant improvement in a country which had over the years recorded 27 per cent teacher absenteeism, Dr Augustine Tawiah, Executive-Director of the Council, observed.
From an initial figure of 27 percent, teacher absenteeism was scaled down to 17 per cent, and then there was a further reduction to 11 per cent, before attaining the current figure courtesy the Council’s monitoring and evaluation system.
Dr Tawiah, addressing this year’s graduation ceremony of the Jackson College of Education in Kumasi, cautioned teachers to discharge their duties per the ethics of the profession.
“It is sad that teachers mandated to educate our children, supervise and facilitate their career development absent themselves from the classroom,” he stated, and called for attitudinal change.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana