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The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu Kotoe is urging members of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) to resume work.<\/p>\n
This follows a meeting between the Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF) and CETAG on the mass leave by tutors, which ended inconclusively on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Teachers in the 46 campuses nationwide have proceeded on an annual leave following a directive by its leadership.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Akatsi North legislator noted that members of CETAG must rescind their decision as they negotiate with government.<\/p>\n \u201cSince the change in the academic calendar, they have been at work for the whole year and must be rewarded. I agree perfectly with their demands. My challenge is that, it is the employer that grants leave, so I will appeal to them to rethink their position and continue negotiating with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission and other agencies such as the Ministry of Education\u201d.<\/p>\n Already, the Teacher Trainee Association of Ghana says the mass leave by members of CETAG has left students frustrated.<\/p>\n The association bemoans the fact that final-year students, who have barely four weeks to complete school, live in uncertainty.<\/p>\n In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, the National Secretary of the Teacher Trainee Association of Ghana, Sumaila Musah appealed to the appropriate quarters to ensure that the tutors resume work.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started prompting the stakeholders\u00a0 <\/span>-GTEC, PRINCOF and then the other bodies including the Ministry of Education on the concerns that have been raised by CETAG, so the issues are addressed as soon as possible.\u00a0 <\/span>But for us as students or leaders, we have less that we can do in this situation but to plead with the stakeholders to listen to our tutors.\u201d<\/p>\n Members of CETAG proceeded on a mass leave on September 1 after working a year without break.<\/p>\n The group indicated that the introduction of the new academic calendar, which requires that teachers work an entire year without break, forced them to take such a decision.<\/p>\n Teachers in all the 46 public Colleges of Education who are members of CETAG on September 1, 2022, proceeded on a 28-day annual leave with an expected return on October 10.<\/p>\n They are also demanding full conditions of service and other compensatory packages.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu Kotoe is urging members of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) to resume work. This follows a meeting between the Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF) and CETAG on the mass leave by tutors, which ended inconclusively on Tuesday. Teachers in the 46 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}