The president of the Volta Region Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana, Kuagbezi Nelson, has appealed to government to fulfill its promise to increase the allowances of trainees in line with the recent salary adjustment of teachers.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the 12th Annual Delegates’ Congress of the Association in Dzodze, the teachers appealed to government through the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports to seriously consider the feeding grant of trainees.
Mr. Kuagbezi said the current 80Gp per day, is inadequate and with the recent increases in food prices, life is virtually becoming unbearable.
The Association called on stakeholders to consider the timing of other activities such as the untrained Teachers Diploma in Basic Education Programme, Sandwich Programme, in-Service training for tutors within the semester and tutors leaving college to attain Masters Degree.
Government should again, expedite action on infrastructural developments such as libraries and laboratories, as well as work out modalities to fast track the payment of salaries to the first batch of teachers of the Diploma in Basic Education.
The Association urged teacher trainees’ to comport themselves in this electioneering year and warned them to distance themselves from all forms of violence and intimidation to ensure free and fair elections.
