{"id":41603,"date":"2014-08-25T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=41603"},"modified":"2014-08-25T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:39:39","slug":"education-ministry-to-meet-over-utag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=41603","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry to meet over UTAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Ministry will today meet to discuss the refusal of universities to re-open due to the ongoing strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).<\/p>\n<p>After indefinitely suspending the re-opening date for tertiary institutions over the outbreak of the Ebola virus in some West African countries, the Ministry later announced that universities can resume on August 27.<\/p>\n<p>However, some universities have given indications they will also re-open when the UTAG strike is over.<\/p>\n<p>UTAG members withdrew their services about a month ago following the refusal of government to pay their research and book allowance.<\/p>\n<p>Their colleague lecturers in the Polytechnics have also been on strike for three months over the same issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry says the meeting is to discuss and provide solutions to the issues raised by the members of UTAG and POTAG.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Ministry will today meet to discuss the refusal of universities to re-open due to the ongoing strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). After indefinitely suspending the re-opening date for tertiary institutions over the outbreak of the Ebola virus in some West African countries, the Ministry later announced that universities can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-41603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}