{"id":57077,"date":"2014-10-16T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=57077"},"modified":"2014-10-16T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:23:28","slug":"uk-school-stops-ghanaian-teachers-visit-over-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/uk-school-stops-ghanaian-teachers-visit-over-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"UK school stops Ghanaian teacher’s visit over Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"
A school in County Durham, in the UK, has postponed a planned visit from a teacher from Ghana, after parents voiced concerns about the Ebola virus, despite the country not having any cases.<\/p>\n
The teacher was due to visit Howden-le-Wear Primary School, near Crook, next Monday.<\/p>\n
The school’s head teacher said it had listened to “concerns raised by all sections of the school and community”.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”sYhAv7GM802D4hi3jNmK6z6rH8es3x2H”]Despite being advised the visit was safe, the school chose to postpone it.<\/p>\n
The trip was part of the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme, which fosters links between schools across the world.<\/p>\n
The current outbreak of Ebola has mainly hit Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, with a small number of cases recorded in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Although Ghana is in the same region of West Africa, it does not border on any of those countries.<\/p>\n
‘Balanced concerns’<\/strong><\/p>\n The school said it sought advice from Public Health England, the Health Protection Agency, Durham County Council and the British Council over whether the visit posed a risk.<\/p>\n It was advised there was no danger, but following a meeting earlier with the school’s governing body and the British Council, it decided to postpone it.<\/p>\n Parents gave a mixed reaction, with one saying “quite a few” people were worried about the teacher coming.<\/p>\n Another said: “I wasn’t concerned about it, because Ghana hasn’t been affected.”<\/p>\n The school’s head teacher, Christopher Baines, said: “The British Council Connecting Classroom visits have always been an exciting, positive and enriching experience.<\/p>\n “To ensure that this remains the case the governing body has taken the decision this afternoon to postpone the visit until a later date.<\/p>\n “We have listened carefully to concerns raised by all sections of the school and community and have balanced these with the expert advice we have been given.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A school in County Durham, in the UK, has postponed a planned visit from a teacher from Ghana, after parents voiced concerns about the Ebola virus, despite the country not having any cases. The teacher was due to visit Howden-le-Wear Primary School, near Crook, next Monday. The school’s head teacher said it had listened to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":57079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[15,43],"yoast_head":"\n