{"id":465383,"date":"2018-02-18T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/teachers-not-civil-servants-cant-close-at-430pm-nagrat-warns-ges\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:00:27","slug":"teachers-not-civil-servants-cant-close-at-430pm-nagrat-warns-ges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/teachers-not-civil-servants-cant-close-at-430pm-nagrat-warns-ges\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers not civil servants, can\u2019t close at 4:30pm \u2013 NAGRAT warns GES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 18 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-18<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10489136.295.jpg\" alt=\"Male Teachers Drunk\" title=\"Male Teachers Drunk\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>NAGRAT says it is dismayed at the attempt by GES to extend the hours of teachers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518969627_935_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Graduate teachers across the country say they are not civil servants and will therefore not close from school at 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Graduate Teachers Association (NAGRAT), its employer, the Ghana Education Service, has employed subtle ways to \u201cunilaterally extend the instructional hours of teachers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It stated in a communiqu\u00e9 issued by its National Council on February 15 that such attempts are without recourse to their collective agreement, hence they will not accept same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers are not Civil Servants and therefore cannot close from school at 4:30 pm,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Council observed teachers in Ghana are already over-stretched by bloated class size that keeps ballooning due to social interventions by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Such interventions, it said, have overlooked the centrality of teachers in education delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral critical factors such as the number of different lessons assigned to be taught each day; participation in research, in co -curricular and extra -curricular activities, in supervising duties and in counseling of pupils and students all make huge demands upon the time of the teacher without being compensated for,\u201d it revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Council said it is therefore dismayed at the attempts by the GES and some heads of schools to unilaterally extend instructional hours of teachers without recourse to their collective agreement.<\/p>\n<p>It described as \u201cinsensitivity and over-exuberance,\u201d such attempts by some heads of schools to arrogate to themselves the right to extend the working time of the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouncil calls for an immediate stop to the practice and demand that all Directors and Heads of Schools engaged in the practice are called to order,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It has meanwhile asked all its members to resist any attempts by any head of school to extend their school time illegally.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Sunday, 18 February 2018 Source: 3news.com 2018-02-18 NAGRAT says it is dismayed at the attempt by GES to extend the hours of teachers Graduate teachers across the country say they are not civil servants and will therefore not close from school at 4:30pm. 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