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Teachers did not call for the Closure of Schools – Education Ministry to Prof. Adei

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ministry of Education has reacted to Prof Stephen Adei’s call for a 50% drop in the salary of teachers who want to remain at home because schools have been shut down. The Ministry’s deputy Public Relations Officer, Kwasi Obeng-Fosu, noted that the teachers cannot suffer salary …

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NAGRAT pushes for final year students, teachers to go home over COVID-19

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is pushing for the government to order all final year students in junior high and senior high schools and their teachers to go home. As Ghana steps up measures to prevent the spread of the six confirmed deadly novel coronavirus …

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SONA2020: Teachers to be granted professional allowance – Prez. Akuffo Addo

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah President Akuffo Addo In the educational aspect of President Akuffo Addo’s State Of the Nation’s Address (SONA), he addressed that, “all plans, all hopes, all expectations for a brighter tomorrow will only come to fruition if they can guarantee an educated and skilled workforce”. He also expressed …

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Gov’t intimidating teachers – Mahama

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah John Mahama interacting with NAGRAT leadership Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of gagging teachers in the country on matters that borders on education. According to Mr Mahama, teachers are, therefore, afraid to share their opinions or disagree with the government’s policies on …

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“I Am Sorry” – NAPO Apologizes To Basic School Teachers

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah NAPO Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, said his comments suggesting diploma holders attended colleges with worst grades were misconstrued. In parts of a video which had already gone viral on social media, Dr Prempeh is seen purportedly describing diploma teachers as having attended colleges with the …

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25% of teachers not qualified – NTC

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File photo: A teacher About 25 per cent of newly trained teachers are not qualified to be in the classroom, the Executive Secretary of the National Teaching Council (NTC), Mr Christian Addai-Poku, has said. This is because the average pass rate in the past three Ghana Teacher …

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Gov’t orders CAGD: Release GHS49m to pay striking teachers

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Teachers on strike placards The Ministry of Finance has ordered the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to release an amount of GHS49,998,626.72 to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to settle outstanding salaries and transfer grants of its staff. The letter that gave the order was signed by …

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Kumasi: Teachers snub “useless“strike; say it is for leaders’ selfish agenda

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Teachers in schools in the Kumasi Metropolis and its adjoining municipalities and districts in the Ashanti region have snubbed the nationwide strike declared by three teacher unions, describing it as “useless”, MyNewsGh.com reports. Kumasi-based Angel FM’s reporters who toured dozens of schools this morning on day one that …

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Technical education hit hard after administrators, teachers strike

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barinah At the Cape Coast Technical University, Richard Kojo Nyarko reports that the classrooms are empty Administrators of Technical Universities in Ghana have joined lecturers for a mammoth strike on Friday. The lecturers, members of the Technical Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), declared a sit-down strike …

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Listen: CSE will empower teachers to ‘bonk’ the kids – Allotey Jacobs

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Bernard Allotey Jacobs, former Central Regional Chairman of the NDC The controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) policy for primary schoolchildren will empower teachers to molest their pupils, former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs has said. According to him, the …

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