The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has warned that Ghana’s education system risks worsening inequality if teacher deployment inefficiencies are not urgently addressed.
He explained on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (15 April) that the country’s teacher allocation system continues to produce structural imbalances, with deprived regions suffering persistent shortages despite the existence of surplus teachers in other areas.
According to him, this mismatch has created a situation where some districts have excess teaching staff concentrated in urban centres, while rural and underserved communities are left with inadequate coverage.
He argued that the current system, which still ties recruitment closely to teacher training outcomes, has contributed significantly to the problem. Ghana, he said, continues to produce more trained teachers than the system can efficiently absorb or deploy.
Asare further cautioned that failure to fix these inefficiencies could widen the rural-urban education gap, affecting completion rates from kindergarten through to tertiary education in deprived regions.
He added that Ghana’s education spending is heavily skewed towards salaries, limiting flexibility to invest in infrastructure and classroom expansion, which further constrains effective deployment.
He stressed that without reforms to improve redistribution of existing teachers and better data-driven planning, the country risks perpetuating cycles of underperformance in vulnerable communities.
Source: asaaseradio.com
