According to the Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Kwame Dagbandow, teachers sent to rural regions should be guaranteed a transfer after their predetermined period of stay is up.

This is one of the ways to persuade instructors to accept posting to remote locations, according to Mr. Dagbandow, who is in head of Education and Professional Development at GNAT and spoke on Prime Morning on Tuesday.

According to him, certain rural locations are in really poor condition, and the surrounding atmosphere is not motivating enough for instructors to be assigned there. As a result, a policy should be in place that specifies a set amount of time for teachers to remain in rural areas.

The teachers might be sent to metropolitan regions when the time comes, he continued, making place for other people to be deployed to rural areas.

According to Mr. Dagbandow, this program might encourage instructors to accept positions in these rural locations, which would significantly increase their numbers.

“There are areas where you won’t believe that they climb on top of trees to be able to get (telephone) network, look at the risk involved, everybody has to stand at that one point before you can communicate to the outside community, that’s challenging.”

“We are saying that if we can have a policy of deploying teachers then we can say that, okay if you accept to be in this deprived area for about 2-3 years, we are moving you to a more developed area so that others could also go there,: he stated.

Mr Dagbandow said that he has never regretted entering into the teaching profession but urged the government and other stakeholders to invest more in it because there is a lot of work to be done.

This, he added, will help attract more individuals into the profession.