{"id":3613,"date":"2024-03-04T04:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2024-03-04T04:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:50:21","slug":"review-30-priority-placement-into-category-a-schools-gnaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Review 30% Priority Placement Into Category \u2018A\u2019 Schools \u2013 GNAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Eastern Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Michael Adjei Sakyi, has called on government to review the 30 percent priority placement system, which reserves for public schools 30 percent of all available vacancies in Category \u201cA\u2019 schools before the rest of the 70 percent vacancies are allocated on merit to both public and private schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This practice, he indicated, together with other teething problems faced by private schools, is collapsing the private school sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Sakyi made the call at a private education stakeholder engagement organised by GNAPS in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The private education stakeholder engagement was aimed at focusing on leveraging the potential in the private education space for the attainment of quality and holistic education. Mr Sakyi urged government to review the policy to keep private schools running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-6e984c883e9ecbd37bf6c79a8a96d30a ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lm5Lo2c07kE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director in Charge of Licencing of Teachers at the National Teaching Council (NTC), Francis Addai, addressing the participants, noted that the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020, Act 1023, mandates the NTC to register and license all teachers in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that the law prohibits the engagement of non-professional teachers, adding that the Act makes provision for such persons to train and receive certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Addai noted that the NTC has trained about 4,720 teachers in the Greater Accra Region and has started issuing licenses to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The New Juaben North Municipal Chief Executive, Dr Asante Antwi, urged teachers without the requisite qualifications to endeavour to acquire them in order to ensure quality education delivery in the region. The participants include representatives from GES, the National Schools Inspectorate Authority, heads of institutions, politicians, pupils and teachers, and school owners, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the pupils carried placards, some of which read, \u201cStop the discrimination, private schools matter,&#8221; \u201cHigh government charges kill private schools,&#8221; \u201cPrivate schools are partners not competitors\u201d, and \u201cPrivate schools demand justice and equity, not charity\u201d, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Michael Adjei Sakyi, has called on government to review the 30 percent priority placement system, which reserves for public schools 30 percent of all available vacancies in Category \u201cA\u2019 schools before the rest of the 70 percent vacancies are allocated on merit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[1214,1215],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-general-news","tag-category-a-schools","tag-gnaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}