80,000 Teachers to get rightful pay – MoE, teacher unions agree
About 80,000 teachers who wrote and passed their promotion examinations will be placed on their rightful salary scales and receive the expected salaries per their promotions, effective this month.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is expected to provide the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department with the necessary data to facilitate the necessary adjustments and payments to affected teachers who have been due for promotion.
This was the outcome of a crunch meeting last Monday between the three teacher unions — Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (PRETAG), on one side, and the government on the other, held at the Ministry of Education.
In attendance were the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, his deputy, Dr Clement Apaak, the Director-General of GES, Professor Ernest Kofi Davies, and the Controller and Accountant General, Kwasi Agyei, on the government side.
The unions were represented by the General Secretary of GNAT, Thomas Musah, the President of NAGRAT, Jacob Anaba, and the President of PRETAG, King Awudu Ali.
Key points from the meeting:
- Teachers will no longer need to travel to District Education Offices to submit pay slips for placement.
- All teachers who passed the promotion exams will be placed with a common effective date of January 2026.
- The placement and payment process is to be completed by the end of September.
- The teacher unions have suspended their planned strike action following the agreement.
The Ministry said it will work to ensure teachers receive their rightful entitlements on time.
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