Showing posts with label Teacher trainees association of Ghana. Show all posts
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17 Mar 2016

Teacher trainees beat ‘war drum’ over unpaid feeding grants

Elikem Derrick Melesusu
Trainee teachers across  the country are very upset over government’s inability to promptly release funds towards their feeding and utility in school.
According to them, following the cancellation of allowances to trainees in 2014 and a new policy to cater for their feeding grants and utilities, government has defaulted in releasing such funds for the past three semesters.
A situation, President  of the Volta  sector of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG), Elikem Derrick Melesusu,  said is hampering the effective running of all 38 colleges of education nationwide. 
Speaking at a press conference in Ho on Wednesday, Mr. Melesusu noted that government’s failure to promptly honour its obligation to the institutions  has compelled some college principals to adopt unauthorized means to raise funds from students for their  feeding and utility payment.
According to him, some the colleges  have billed each  student  GHc 560 as feeding fee as well as   between GHc 50 and GHc165  for utility.