{"id":245466,"date":"2016-09-04T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=245466"},"modified":"2016-09-04T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:59:34","slug":"education-not-a-priority-for-govt-nagrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/education-not-a-priority-for-govt-nagrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Education not a priority for Gov’t – NAGRAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Association of Graduate Teachers, (NAGRAT), has accused the government of not devoting ample time and resources to education in the country.<\/p>\n
According to the President of NAGRAT, Christian Addae-Poku, Government\u2019s policy of building schools across the country is more for the approval of voters than it is for the benefit of the sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t think it\u2019s prioritized. It\u2019s a lip-service that government pays to education trying to tell everybody that education is a priority. As far as we practitioners are concerned, education is never a priority. If education was a priority, teachers would not be recruited and made to serve for two or three years without a salary. If education was a priority, why are district offices suffering with their subventions in arrears for four years.? If education is a priority, why is government concentrating only on building schools and not on other aspects of the system that will education run on,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as we are concerned, we are playing to the gallery, pleasing the populace by implementing populist policies meant to get votes.\u201d<\/p>\n