Government Satisfies Progress on Double Track – Dr. Adutwum

General News of Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-24

The government is pleased with the progress of works to expand educational infrastructure high schools to cope with the challenges created by free high school policy.

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of Basic Education and Secondary Education, revealed in an interview with Citi News that contractors working on projects needed to complete their work before the start of the project. the academic year 2019-2020.

The ministers were inspecting ongoing projects in the Bolgatanga Girls, Navrongo and Bolgatanga high schools in the Upper East region.

Adutwum said subcontractors were working quickly to end the dual-track system.

He also described his involvement with the schoolchildren his team visited as "very exciting".

The Deputy Minister of Education explained that students entering the second year of high school will no longer be obliged to follow the dual track system, because the contractor has badured that the projects would be completed quickly.

"At this point, I am excited about the possibility that the contractor will be able to finish his work so that the students can form the second one, so that the students do not have to be on a double track. that we have always planned and realized. The contractor badured that things were going well and that I saw it myself, so it's a very exciting day where we can talk to our children.

More than 200 dual-track teachers demand unpaid wages

A week ago, more than two hundred teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to manage the FreeSky double-track system in the Upper West revealed that they had not still not received their salary almost a year after their engagement. .

The teachers under the generic name, Concerned Newly Recruited Teachers, said they did not receive any personnel identifiers allowing them to commit the GES against their salary.

"We have not been paid because we do not have a personal ID. You must have an identity code under biometric registration before you are charged. We do not know how much we will receive per month, "said one teacher.

«… from November [2018] until now, I have not received a roll number. Nothing concerning the payment has been made. The people of Accra have a duty to work there. You have to dress decently, "said another.