Promotion in a place for every worker comes with enjoy coupled with jubilation and finally, it is crowned with celebration. Most workers in different sectors of the economy see promotion as an opportunity for professional and financial advancement. Promotion comes with a new responsibility for the worker involved and because of that one is put on high salary scale to reflect his/her new rank.
Ghana Education Service have scheme of work that see to it that teachers are promoted from one rank to another after serving four or five years on the current rank. When teachers are due for promotion, they go through lot to prepare for the promotion aptitude test which was recently adopted by Ghana Education Service (GES) to replace the previous promotion interview session. Some Teachers attend classes, seminars, buy books, and do other things to ensure that they successfully pass the test to be promoted but later regret when they are put on their new salary level.
It is best said that the ‘higher you go, the cooler it becomes’. This statement is very ironical as far as GES is concerned. For them, the higher you, the harder it becomes. Teachers who passed the recent promotion aptitude test from Assistant Director II to Assistant Director I (a senior rank) only received a salary increase of GH₵47.33 whiles their junior colleagues who passed from Principal Superintended to Assistant Director II received GH₵240.78. Many teachers see this a disincentive to attending further promotions although, the Principal Superintended moved from a salary scale level 16 to 18 and the Assistant Director II moved from salary scale 18 to 19 but the difference salary increment should have been half of their junior colleagues.
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