The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has warned that it would no longer tolerate non-teachers managing teachers’ affairs.
NAGRAT and three other teacher unions had initially opposed the appointment of the current Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr. Eric Nkansah because he was a banker and not a teacher.
The unions also threatened to strike in protest of such appointments.
Speaking at the 2023 Ghana Teacher Prize, NAGRAT President Angel Carbonu emphasised that the unions will no longer support such appointments in the future.
“We will quickly put this before the minister to see why people think they cannot belong to this fraternity but have the impetus to superintend over us who belong to this fraternity. You either belong to us or go and join whoever you want to go and join.
“The next time there is a similar statement, we will be very emphatic that we will not work with anybody who does not want to be part of this fraternity because I cannot go to the hospital to superintend over the work of the medical doctor or the nurses,” he emphasised.