Regional and District Directorates of the Ghana Education Service (GES) are to return to the classrooms some teachers who are performing administrative and other related duties in the offices. A circular from the GES headquarters to that effect had been sent to Regional Directors of Education to carry out the exercise by September 01 in line with the new education reforms. Mr. Cletus Paaga, the Upper West Regional Director of Education who spoke to the GNA in an interview, said the regional directorate was to deploy 23 out of its 40-member staff who are mainly teachers to second cycle schools in the region. "A directive from GES headquarters has instructed the Regional Directorate to maintain 17 staff out of the number and send the remaining 23 to the classrooms", he said. Mr. Paaga said he had held a meeting with heads of second cycle institutions asking them to submit to the regional office the staffing position of their schools to determine where to post the teachers. The Teachers and Educational Workers Union of the Trades Union Congress has been agitating for the return of teachers performing administrative functions in the offices to the classroom. Source: GNA