{"id":8323,"date":"2014-03-24T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2014-03-24T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:20:04","slug":"teacher-trainees-embark-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8323","title":{"rendered":"Teacher trainees demonstrate over scrapped allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-24-11.06.14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8324\" alt=\"2014-03-24 11.06.14\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-24-11.06.14.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-24-11.06.14.jpg 320w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-24-11.06.14-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) on Monday staged a nationwide demonstration over <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"2be8225a-7c8b-4c55-a932-4581fd3bf400\">government&#8217;s decision<\/span> to scrap the teacher trainee allowance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the teacher trainees, government has also failed to pay their feeding fees to their respective training colleges for almost eighteen months.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the president of the Eastern-Greater Accra (EGA) Sector of the TTAG, Jacob Ladzekpo said \u201cafter the allowance was scraped we have realized that it is causing so much problem on the campuses, students do not have <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"52969395-1cbd-460c-87dc-2df428cc1041\">resources<\/span> to buy instructional materials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government announced moves to scrap the allowance system which was to be replaced by the student loans which is available for all degree awarding institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The decision according to government was also to allow <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"10bd3061-bf6f-4588-93c2-3e058636cdfd\">increase<\/span> in the intake of the number of trainees into the training colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Members in the EGA sector begun demonstrating from the Obra spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through some principal streets of Accra and ended at the Art Centre, where they petitioned the president through the minister of education.<\/p>\n<p>Over three hundred teacher trainees with red arm bands were matching amidst songs like \u201c<span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"3a74e614-124f-4e61-ac95-64f619577c45\">alkayida<\/span> teachers <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"25de4e46-f2db-4c67-a109-f45234eea737\">abre<\/span>\u201d and carrying placards with inscriptions such as \u201cteachers <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"a306a7d4-c369-451e-bf12-c3d73b601392\">abre<\/span>\u201d, \u201cwho said <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"85ebf555-fd44-4065-9a6c-eb0ab75ceb04\">no<\/span> <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"c4a20ee1-619b-43fd-9edc-ab8739cf7731\">alawa<\/span>? Cabinet or Okudzeto\u201d, \u201cno teacher, no country\u201d, \u201cwe need the allowance\u201d amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Tertiary Education of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Donald Tay, received the petition on behalf of the minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Magdalene Larnyoh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) on Monday staged a nationwide demonstration over government&#8217;s decision to scrap the teacher trainee allowance. According to the teacher trainees, government has also failed to pay their feeding fees to their respective training colleges for almost eighteen months. Speaking to Citi News, the president of the Eastern-Greater Accra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8324,"comment_status":"open","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":[38,16],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}