There has been indications from many quarters that Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo has betrayed his people. This is as a result of him announcing the decision of National Executive Committee (NEC) of UTAG to suspend their several weeks of strike to demand for better conditions of service from the government of Ghana. In response, Professor […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that it will meet with the teacher unions on Thursday, January 20, 2022 to resolve their concerns over the new semester-based academic calendar for basic schools. The teacher unions in a joint statement on Monday, January 17, 2022 called on the GES to immediately withdraw the new policy […]
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The University of Ghana, Legon (UG) branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has rejected a proposal by government to pay its members $1,600 as research allowance. It has thus declared a strike on January 3. In a letter co-signed by the President and General Secretary Dr Samuel Nkumbaan and Prof Ransford Gyampo, […]
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The High Court in Accra (General Jurisdiction) has dismissed the suit filed by two teacher unions- the Innovative Teachers and All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG) against K. A Technology, Ministry of Education of Ghana two others for lack of capacity. This was upon an application by lawyers for K. A Technology to dismiss the action. […]
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The Ministry of Education is set to reduce the number of Junior High Schools in Ghana from 13,000 to 2500 after re-engineering the country’s a educational system to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The new system will be called the Junior Senior High School. Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum explained that “We […]
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Government plans to pilot a six-year secondary education system beginning in 2023. “In 2023 when we open those schools, you are going to see how we are going to see six years [of] quality secondary education,” the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said to the press on Tuesday. This system will be piloted at […]
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A group of teachers who are angry over deductions from their continuous professional development allowances for the purchase of laptops to aid their work are threatening to shut down all union offices if their money is not refunded by end of December. The teachers who are currently marching to the various offices of the teacher […]
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Education Minister, Dr Yaw Adutwum has been summoned before Parliament over government’s ‘1 Teacher, 1 Laptop’ policy, which has triggered division and agitation amongst teacher unions. Deputy Ranking on the Education Committee, Dr Clement Apaak, who has filed a question for the minister to answer, alleges the selection process in the award of the contract […]
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Two teacher association group have filed a suit against the government of Ghana over a contract awarded for the supply of laptops to teachers from kindergarten to the senior high school level. The government of Ghana on September 3, 2021, launched the One Teacher One Laptop initiative aimed at bridging the gap between teachers in […]
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The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) goes to the polls in January 2022 to elect its national officers. The positions available for contest are National President, National Vice President, National Treasurer, First National Trustee, Second National Trustee. Twenty five candidates have been vetted and cleared to contest the various positions, among them, four candidates […]
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