Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has disclosed that Ghana is currently grappling with a severe teacher deficit, with about 30,000 classrooms operating without teachers following the government’s failure to recruit new teachers in 2025.
Speaking on Channel One TV on Tuesday, January 13, while assessing the one-year performance of President John Dramani Mahama, he said the lack of recruitment has had a direct impact on basic education, leaving many pupils without proper instruction and increasing the risk of school dropouts.
He explained that the education sector requires at least 15,000 new teachers each year to maintain balance in the system, accounting for poor distribution and annual attrition.
However, he noted that no teachers were recruited in 2025, worsening an already strained situation.
“As a result, we now have not less than 30,000 classrooms without teachers, and the number could be higher,” he stated, warning that the gap is undermining teaching and learning nationwide.
He called for the immediate recruitment of at least 30,000 teachers, particularly into basic schools, and urged the government to ensure postings are made to areas where they are most needed.
“The government promised to implement a policy under which teachers who accept postings to deprived areas will be given allowances, and such incentives must go hand in hand with the deployment of teachers to those areas,” he said.
