Nana Addo promises better working conditions for teachers

General News of Saturday, February 2, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-02-02

President Akufo-Addo has promised to ensure the improvement of the lives of teachers in the country.

He added that in addition to the 10% salary increase that the government had approved in 2018 to take effect as of January 2019 for all public sector workers including teachers, the government pays to teachers their salary arrears.

Speaking at the reopening ceremony of the Bediako Conference Hall of the Ghana National Teachers' Association (GNAT) headquarters in Accra, Akufo-Addo said the government is "going ahead". used to pay teachers other allowances such as travel and transfer costs. have been late for a few years.

"We have started to improve the situation of our teachers. In addition to the 10% increase in teachers' base salaries this year, the government has started clearing all the arrears accumulated between 2013 and 2016, due to teachers with regard to travel allowance, transfer allowances. Currently, the government is no longer accumulating arrears. We are putting measures in place so that this situation does not happen again, "said Akufo-Addo.

Akufo-Addo added that late payment of benefits would be completed by the end of March this year.

The commissioning installation had been commissioned in 1981, but it had not undergone a real facelift since.

The facelift, which cost some 7 million GHc, increased the hotel's capacity from 400 to 1,100 seats. The Bediako conference room, which also includes: a bar, a restaurant and a youth hostel have been equipped with facilities adapted for people with reduced mobility.

President Akufo-Addo told the meeting that the government was developing a comprehensive policy for teachers based on UNESCO's criteria to improve teachers' working conditions.

This policy would include nine elements: recruitment and retention, teacher training, free service and service, deployment, career structure, employment and working conditions, reward and remuneration, teacher status, accountability and governance of the organization. # 39; school.

In addition, the government pursued several reforms, including reforms of pre-tertiary programs, teacher training reforms at the pre-tertiary and tertiary levels, as well as the integration of technical and vocational training and training. teachers.

"These reforms are part of the government's vision of transforming the country's education system to meet the needs of the 21st century and to build a skilled and confident workforce to carry out the national education agenda." industrialization and modernization, "stressed the President.