The Ministry of Education is set to meet teacher unions on Monday, September 28, 2026, as part of efforts to resolve the ongoing dispute over unpaid promotion arrears and other outstanding demands.
The meeting comes after teacher unions declared a nationwide strike over delays in the payment of promotion arrears and negotiations with the government.
Press Secretary and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Hasmin Mohammed, disclosed this on Joy FM’s Midday News on Friday, September 25.
According to him, the Education Minister will engage the unions and other relevant stakeholders in an attempt to resolve the issues and secure an end to the strike.
“I’ve just had information from the Honourable Minister that we intend to meet them on Monday in order to continue to pursue them to call off the strike,” he said.
Mr Mohammed explained that the concerns raised by the unions could not be addressed by the Education Ministry alone, as they also involved the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission and the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department.
He said Monday’s meeting would provide an opportunity for the relevant institutions and the teacher unions to engage directly on the outstanding issues.
The Ministry, he added, was “deeply worried” about the strike because of its potential impact on the academic calendar.
Mr Mohammed said the government had made significant efforts to restore stability to the academic calendar following previous disruptions.
He noted that pupils and students from kindergarten through to university had, for the first time in recent years, returned to school in September.
“It took the Honourable Minister and then that of the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service to be able to restore sanity into the academic calendar,” he said.
“For the first time, we are having our Ghanaian school children from KG to university all reporting in this September. So that tells you that we have been able to reverse the academic calendar.”
He warned that prolonged industrial action could undermine the progress made in restoring the academic calendar.
Mr Mohammed said the Ministry would use Monday’s engagement to address the concerns of the unions and work towards ending the strike.
He assured that the Ministry would continue to engage the relevant stakeholders to minimise further disruption to academic activities.
