The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) is seeking financial clearance from the Ministry of Education (MoE) to hire 2,500 new teachers.

This recruitment is intended to alleviate the heavy academic workload and ensure a timely start to academic sessions.

This request follows a nationwide strike by the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), which began on June 14 in response to the government's failure to implement agreed arbitration awards and other service conditions.

Once financial clearance is granted, GTEC will quickly proceed with the recruitment to have the new staff in place as soon as possible.

“The Commission is in serious talks with the Honourable Minister of Education for financial clearance to be granted to GTEC to recruit some two thousand five hundred (2,500) teaching staff to augment the current load for academic work to commence as quickly as possible while we work with CETAG to resolve their concerns.

“GTEC will communicate to you the modalities with which this urgent staff recruitment will be expedited as soon as the clearance is provided,” the statement read.