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Deputy Minister in-charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said that final year polytechnic students of \u00a0the 2013\/14 academic year will undertake their national service in 2014.<\/p>\n

According to him, the students who have not completed their polytechnic education will be posted to regions where their schools are located so as to be able to combine the final academic work and national service.<\/p>\n

Polytechnic Teachers have been on strike since May 15, 2014 demanding payment of their book and research allowances which are in arrears.<\/p>\n

The strike has led to the closure of all polytechnics in the country leaving the students academic work in limbo.<\/p>\n

Speaking on\u00a0the \u00a0Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday on the fate of final year students who have not been able to complete their academic work as a result of the strike but are expected to join the National Service Scheme (NSS) in September, Mr Ablakwa noted that the NSS has been instructed to ensure that polytechnic students are posted to the regions where their schools are located.<\/p>\n

“…so that if you are in Accra Poly you are posted in Accra, if you are in Tamale Poly you are posted in the Northern Region, if you are in Takoradi Poly, you are posted in the Western Region. So that as and when this matter is resolved, you can quickly take leave and write the exams and return to the field for your national service.<\/p>\n

\u201c…we are a bit concerned because the academic year is about to begin and this matter has not been resolved. But as I said, we are still talking behind the scenes, but it has become complicated as these matters are now in the bosom of the courts,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

In July, the Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court declared that the strike embarked upon by the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) was legal after the National Labour Commission (NLC) had petitioned the court to declare the strike as illegal and order the lecturers to go back to the classroom.<\/p>\n

The court rather ordered the NLC to enter a compulsory arbitration procedure, provided for under Regulation 26 of the NLC Regulations, 2006 (LI 1822), with POTAG to resolve the impasse.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President of the Polytechnic Teachers Association<\/b> of\u00a0Ghana (POTAG), James Dugrah, says teachers\u00a0 will not return to the classroom unless government pays their book and research<\/b> allowance.<\/p>\n

According to him, the book and research allowance<\/b> is the \u2018\u2019basic tool\u2019\u2019 for the work of the teachers.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019I think you know want goes into teaching; if you don<\/b>\u2019t research can you go and teach. If you don\u2019t research how can you just get up and go and be teaching\u2026,\u2019\u2019 he told the host<\/b> of the Citi<\/b> Breakfast Show<\/i><\/strong>, Bernard Avle, <\/em>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He explained that government is deliberately \u2018\u2019dragging its feet\u2019\u2019 in paying POTAG. \u201cPeople borrowed money<\/b> to do that and you dragging your feet to pay; is it fair,\u2019\u2019 he inquired.<\/p>\n

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By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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