{"id":768197,"date":"2019-12-19T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/19\/education-minister-assures-tutag\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:09:24","slug":"education-minister-assures-tutag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/19\/education-minister-assures-tutag\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister Assures TUTAG &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew<br \/>\nOpoku Prempeh, has given an assurance that the government is working around the<br \/>\nclock to get all senior members and other staff of the technical universities<br \/>\nfully migrated unto the Public Universities Salary Structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October this year, the Technical<br \/>\nUniversity Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) embarked on strike action over<br \/>\nwhat they said was the failure of the Ministry of Education to migrate them<br \/>\nonto the Public University Pay Structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Technical Universities<br \/>\nAdministrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) also joined the industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the same month of<br \/>\nOctober,\u00a0TUTAG\u00a0and\u00a0TUSAAG\u00a0called off their strike and<br \/>\nextended the academic calendar to make up for the contact hours lost during the<br \/>\nstrike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Education Minister noted that<br \/>\nthough TUTAG and TUSAAG\u00a0brought technical education across the<br \/>\ncountry to a standstill through their strike action, they still negotiated<br \/>\nand acted in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said this in an<br \/>\naddress read on his behalf at the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0congregation ceremony of<br \/>\nthe Takoradi Technical University (TTU).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The minister<br \/>\nmentioned that President Akufo-Addo had set before him an agenda to transform<br \/>\nTechnical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) to perform its critical role<br \/>\nin the nation\u2019s development agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nobserved that the TTU had distinguished itself as a<br \/>\npremier centre for higher education in technical and vocational training in the<br \/>\ncountry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vice<br \/>\nChancellor of the TTU, Rev. Prof. John Frank Eshun, said his vision was to<br \/>\nposition the university as the Centre of Excellence in oil and gas engineering<br \/>\nto drive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlans<br \/>\nare underway to mount new four-year bachelor programmes in Petroleum<br \/>\nEngineering, Welding Technology, Gas and Plumbing Technology,\u201d he<br \/>\nstressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The university turned out 2,414 graduands. Out of the number, 348 were awarded Bachelor of Technology Degrees,\u00a01,784had Higher National Diplomas (HNDs), while 76graduands were conferred with Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) certificates.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has given an assurance that the government is working around the clock to get all senior members and other staff of the technical universities fully migrated unto the Public Universities Salary Structure.\u00a0 In October this year, the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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