The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has argued that Ghana’s ongoing teacher crisis is driven more by poor distribution and systemic inefficiencies than an absolute shortage of trained teachers.
Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (15 April), he said available data shows significant imbalances in teacher deployment across the country, with some districts overstaffed while others face severe shortages.
He cited examples where certain urban centres concentrate a disproportionate number of teachers, while deprived areas continue to struggle with classroom shortages. According to him, this reflects a “distributive efficiency challenge” within the education system.
Asare noted that Ghana has tens of thousands of trained but unemployed or unposted teachers, even as thousands of classrooms remain without instructors, particularly at the kindergarten and primary levels.
He argued that the problem is compounded by limited transparency in deployment data, which restricts civil society oversight and accountability in the posting process.
The education policy analyst further suggested that political and institutional interference has distorted teacher postings over the years, contributing to uneven staffing across districts.
He called for the publication of teacher deployment quotas at district level to allow monitoring by civil society organisations and the media, adding that this would improve accountability and fairness in distribution.
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