GES AD II Promotion case studies

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The GES AD II Promotion credential refers to promotion within the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the Assistant Director II grade. GES describes itself as responsible for the implementation of approved national policies on education and the day-to-day administration of pre-tertiary education in Ghana, and its published scope spans 16 regions, 261 districts, 40,000+ schools and 9M+ students. The GES AD II Promotion case studies are 5 cases and about 3,415 words.

The Unregistered Private School and the Political Pressure

You are the newly posted Assistant Director II in charge of monitoring and supervision in a district directorate. A community group petitions that Bright Star Academy, a private basic school operating from a converted garage, has 187 pupils, one toilet for boys and girls, and teachers without national teaching licences.

759 words, about 4 min 2

The Verbal Transfer Directive and the New Circuit

You are the AD II acting for a District Director who has been transferred. The Regional Director telephones you with a directive: transfer 14 teachers from three urban basic schools to a newly created rural circuit where a new JHS opened this term with 96 pupils and no trained teachers.

680 words, about 3 min 3

Study Leave with Pay in a Mathematics Crisis

The district has six study leave with pay slots for the year and 19 applications. Mensah, a mathematics teacher in a rural JHS with three years' service, has admission to a four-year B.Ed (Mathematics) distance programme.

689 words, about 3 min 4

The Capitation Grant and the Staff Refrigerator

A headteacher of a public JHS with 412 pupils asks the SMC to approve the use of GHS 8,000 from the term's capitation grant of GHS 9,500 to buy a refrigerator, a water dispenser and a television for the staff common room, and to pay GHS 1,200 as 'motivation' to teachers who marked mock examinations. The SMC chair, a local businessman, supports the request and says the District Director 'will not mind'.

620 words, about 3 min 5

The Inflated Census and the Ghost Teacher

During preparation of the annual school census, you notice that a rural primary school reports 560 pupils. Last year it reported 430; the nearest public school of similar size reports 380.

667 words, about 3 min