Okyenhene advocates for incentives to enhance quality education

Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin has called for improved incentives for teachers, particularly those assigned to rural areas, to enhance the delivery of quality education.

This call comes amid concerns about a high attrition rate among teachers in Ghana and persistent shortages in rural areas.

Last year, Dr. Christian Addai-Poku, Registrar of the National Teaching Council, revealed that over 16,000 Ghanaian teachers had applied for positions in the UK’s Department of Education.

By June 13, 2023, 10,000 of these applicants, holding Ghana Teacher Licenses, had been certified to work in the UK without further assessment.

This compounds the high attrition rate among the teaching profession in the country due to poor conditions of service.

Many schools in rural areas do not have adequate teachers due to a lack of incentives.

Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin believes that providing infrastructure and laptops to schools is ineffective if there are no quality teachers to utilize these resources to teach students.

He is advocating for special incentives for teachers posted to rural areas.

The overlord of Akyem Abuakwa touted the Free SHS program and urged parents to take advantage of it to provide secondary education to their children.

Okyenhene cautioned against teenage pregnancy and irresponsible parenting, which lead to an increase in child neglect and school dropouts.

At a Royal Durbar organized by the Benkum Division in honor of Okyenhene’s 25th-anniversary celebration, he assured attendees in Begoro that a new chief would soon be installed to occupy the vacant stool, which has been empty for five years, to help facilitate development in the area.

Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin underscored the importance of community stability and warned against land and chieftaincy disputes in the Fanteakwa area.

He urged successful citizens of Begoro around the globe to return to their roots to help in the development of the town.