Teacher Trainees Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/teacher-trainees/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-CITI-973-FM-32x32.jpg Teacher Trainees Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/teacher-trainees/ 32 32 Yendi trainee teachers lock out Principal, reject meals over allowances https://citifmonline.com/2017/12/yendi-trainee-teachers-lock-principal-reject-meals-allowances/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:15:31 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=383231 Aggrieved trainee teachers of St. Vincent College of Education in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, today [Thursday], boycotted lectures in protest of their exclusion from beneficiaries of the restored allowances for teacher and nurse trainees. They have thus chased the Principal out of the school compound resulting in the police being dispatched to […]

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]]> Aggrieved trainee teachers of St. Vincent College of Education in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, today [Thursday], boycotted lectures in protest of their exclusion from beneficiaries of the restored allowances for teacher and nurse trainees.

They have thus chased the Principal out of the school compound resulting in the police being dispatched to the premises of the institution to calm the situation.

The trainees have since rejected meals prepared for them at the school’s canteen.

They accused the College Principal of negligence and incompetence, and demanded his removal from office.

Some of the trainees, in a Citi News interview, demanded their inclusion as beneficiaries of the trainee allowances.

According to them, the Principal had earlier assured them that they would be paid the allowances, but later changed his stance when the student leadership pressurized him to address their grievances.

Meanwhile, the Yendi Divisional Police Command has deployed personnel to the College to avert any untoward situation there.

The NPP Government, in fulfillment of the campaign promises it made ahead of the 2016 elections, restored teacher and nursing trainee allowances.

Continuing students of public teacher trainee colleges have since been receiving the monthly stipends.

But students of the St. Vincent College of Education in Yendi, say they have been neglected, hence their protest.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah & Mohammed Alabira/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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]]> We’d rather lose than restore trainee allowances – Mahama https://citifmonline.com/2016/09/wed-rather-lose-than-restore-trainee-allowances-mahama/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:47:33 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=246722 The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Mahama has said his government would not backtrack on its decision to scrap teacher trainee allowances saying he would rather lose the elections than restore the allowances. President Mahama on Thursday tweeted saying: “On the matter of trainee teacher allowances, better to lose on principle than […]

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]]> The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Mahama has said his government would not backtrack on its decision to scrap teacher trainee allowances saying he would rather lose the elections than restore the allowances.

President Mahama on Thursday tweeted saying: “On the matter of trainee teacher allowances, better to lose on principle than win using falsehood. We’ll not reverse the decision. #UCC Forum.”

He is on a campaign tour of the Central Region.

The President and his ministers have been adamant that government will not restore the teacher trainee allowances even if it means losing the upcoming elections.

Government scrapped teacher trainee allowance in 2014 in a move that was met with stiff opposition from trainee teachers who went as far as demonstrations to compel government to reintroduce the allowances.

Government explained that the policy of trainee allowances was to be replaced by a student loan scheme which was available for all degree awarding institutions.

The decision according to government was also to allow an increase in the number of trainees admitted into various training colleges in the country.

Teacher trainees subsequently vowed to vote against the NDC government if it failed to restore the payment of their allowances before the 2016 general elections.

On the other hand, the Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, on his recent campaign tour of the Northern Region promised that he will restore the allowance should he win power.

 

 

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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