Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa - Director-General, Ghana Education Service The Director-General D-G of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, says only 293 staff resigned from the service in 2021. According to him, the total attrition from the payroll of the GES is 8,209, made up of 6,834 teaching staff and 1,375 non-teaching staff. Prof. Opoku-Amankwa gave the explanation as an official response to figures released by the Member of Parliament for the Builsa South Constituency, Dr Clement Apaak, that 44,000 out of the 284,000 teachers left the teaching profession in 2021. In response, the Ministry of Education issued a statement, basing its statistics on the Education Management Information Service (EMIS), a source Dr Apaak quoted in his submission, stated that the figure was rather 34,424 instead of the 44,000. Clarification In an interview with the Daily Graphic Thursday, January 27, however, Prof. Opoku-Amankwa said in determining staff attrition in the ser...
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