{"id":1270742,"date":"2022-12-28T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T08:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/colleges-of-education-reintroduction-of-quota-system-shows-govt-cant-pay-feeding-grants-apaak\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T08:44:25","slug":"colleges-of-education-reintroduction-of-quota-system-shows-govt-cant-pay-feeding-grants-apaak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/colleges-of-education-reintroduction-of-quota-system-shows-govt-cant-pay-feeding-grants-apaak\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges of Education: Reintroduction of quota system shows govt can&#8217;t pay feeding grants &#8211; Apaak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"288\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Dr_Apaak\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dr_Apaak.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"288\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dr_Apaak.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Dr_Apaak\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Builsa South Member of Parliament Dr Clement Apaak has said that the allocation list regarding the reintroduction of the admission quota system for the 46 accredited Public Colleges of Education for the 2022\/2023 academic year, shows that the government cannot pay feeding grants or teacher trainee allowance for all who qualify to train as teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA quota system to control the number of students Colleges of Education can admit for the 2022\/23 academic year?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe letter\/allocation list attached suggest that govt can\u2019t pay feeding grants\/teacher trainee allowance for all who qualify to train as teachers,\u201d the Member of the Education Committee in Parliament tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has reintroduced the admission quota system for the 46 accredited Public Colleges of Education for the 2022\/2023 academic year after the previous Mahama administration scrapped the payment of allowances in the 2013\/2014 academic year and replaced it with loans from the Student Loan Trust Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The governing NPP went ahead to\u00a0<strong>restore the allowances<\/strong>\u00a0to students in nursing and teacher training colleges in 2017 and refused to introduce a quota system.<\/p>\n<p>But has now reintroduced the quota system.<\/p>\n<p>The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF), the\u00a0Ghana Tertiary Education Commission\u00a0outlined the list of Colleges of Education with their respective admission quota for the academic year under review.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 12,002 prospective teacher trainees are expected to be admitted into the 46 Colleges of Education for the 2022\/2023 academic year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-904320 size-full lazyloaded\"   alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"931\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6DE1BBC-AD4F-4B0C-9A2C-9E42833B57DB.jpeg\" data-\/><\/p>\n<h4\/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Builsa South Member of Parliament Dr Clement Apaak has said that the allocation list regarding the reintroduction of the admission quota system for the 46 accredited Public Colleges of Education for the 2022\/2023 academic year, shows that the government cannot pay feeding grants or teacher trainee allowance for all who qualify to train as teachers. 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