Teachers, were on Friday, told not to use teaching periods to mark the class work of students and pupils as it disrupts smooth teaching.
They should rather find time off their working periods to do the marking, Mrs Mary Quaye, Director to the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of tertiary institution issued the directives during an open forum at the closing session of a three-day workshop held in Tema.
The workshop, which was on the "2009 Education Review", was held for heads of educational institutions, representatives of GNAT, NAGRAT, traditional rulers and stakeholders drawn from the Greater Accra Region.
The 91 participants reviewed the draft Education Strategic plan which covers the period 2010 to 2020.
Challenges confronting the educational sector discussed included teacher enrolment, pupils' enrolment, pupils and teacher ratio and infrastructural developments, among others.
Mrs Quaye noted that, even though class work must be marked on time, using the teaching periods was inappropriate as that would shorten the period for teaching, leading to the incompletion of the syllabus.
In order to achieve quality education in the country, the participants underscored the need for the government to channel more resources and funding to the sector and debunked the argument that the bulk of the funding goes into teachers' emoluments.
The educationists attributed the reluctance of some teachers to accepting postings to the rural areas to the lack of accommodation and urged the authorities to include teacher's bungalows whenever new schools are being built.
They also complained of the school lands being encroached on by developers and appealed to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies as well as chiefs to ensure that the practice was stopped.