The Minister of Education, Alex Tettey-Enyo has urged teachers and other education workers to take the ongoing Public Sector Educational Workers Census (PSEWC) seriously. He said, the exercise is expensive and cannot be toyed with.
Mr. Tettey-Enyo made the remark when he paid a working visit to some of the Census registration centres to learn at first hand how things are going and challenges they were facing.
The census, which started on Monday, is organized by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in collaboration with the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ghana Audit Service (GAS). The programme that would last for the next three weeks is expected to audit and give a head count of all educational workers under the MoE.
Mr. Tettey-Enyo, was accompanied by Professor Nicholas Nsowah, Deputy Government Statistician and Henry Nii Odai, Head of Operations of PSEWC). His first point of call was Manle Dada Cluster of schools near La in the Kpeshie-Sub-Metro. He said the exercise would be extended to cover all the Senior High and Tertiary institutions in the country after the completion of the registration of educational personnel in the primary and Junior High Schools.
A registration assistant from the Audit Service, Miss Elizabeth Konnay explained that they had so far registered 22 out of the 24 teachers at the Manle Dada while the other two teachers were said to be on sandwich courses. She said because the exercise is to capture personal information of all education workers they are required to come along with their pay-skips, National health Insurance Registration cards and list of staff from the headteachers.
However, the workstation, which was supposed to print the pictures taken to fill forms, was not working because of faulty cable.
The Minister and his team also visited the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Metro Education Office at Kinbu.
The GSS personnel in charge of the area Moses Ansah said out of the 300 education workers in the AMA Metro area only 10 have been registered so far.
