Mr John Nyoagbe, Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has complained about the large number of untrained teachers in classrooms throughout the country.
A said the population of untrained teachers was as high as thirty percent and this was negatively impacting on the performance of the pupils in schools where such teachers taught.
Mr Nyoagbe said this at the end of a four-day in-service training programme for 96 teachers in deprived areas of the Northern Region under the Ghana National Association of Teacher (GNAT) and Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF) Project, Nkabom Inter Action In-service training.
The workshop aims among others to enhance the teacher's moral and professionalism and also mobilize community involvement and support to schools.
The second phase of the project would assist selected deprived communities to write their own profiles which would highlight their history, ecology, economic activities, social networks and community strengths.
Mr Nyoagbe said related to the issue of untrained teachers was also the stop-gap measures such as the recruitment of teaching assistance under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
He said since the teaching assistants were recruited, no orientation or training had been given to them, but some had been assigned full classes to teach.
The Deputy General Secretary of GNAT expressed worry about rate at which dilapidated classroom blocks with ripped off roofs were increasing in the country and blamed the authorities for not showing any concern in rehabilitating the school blocks.
He appealed to the Controller and Accountant General's Department to get the appropriate software to fix the problem of instability on the teacher's payroll.
Mr Nyoagbe said the delay in payment of the capitation grant made it difficult to procure basic logistics before the academic term began.
Mr Burris Devanny, the CTF team leader commended the participants for the attentiveness during the workshop and asked them to share the knowledge they had acquired with the colleagues.