The African Foundation for Educational Development (AFFED), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has requested that trainee allowances be cancelled.
According to AFFED, the government is struggling to pay the allowance after six months of arrears.
After his processors, John Dramani Mahama, revoked the arrangement, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo reinstated the teacher trainee allowances in 2017.
The restoration went into effect on September 12th, 2017, the same day that the free senior high school (SHS) program was officially launched.
He explained that the reinstatement of the allowances is part of the government's efforts to provide high-quality education under the free SHS program.
"The teacher is at the heart of this policy's potential. In order to provide quality instruction, a well-trained, confident, and content instructor is required. "Quality teacher training is critical to our nation's growth if we are to prosper as a nation and accept that education is vital to national development," Mr Akufo-Addo said.
However, according to a statement issued by AFFED on Monday November 29 and signed by its Executive Director, Ernest Kwame Adade, "it is undeniably clear how government is suffocating in honoring its promise to pay trainee allowances, particularly at this time when the allowance has been in arrears for six (6) months." Since the reintroduction of trainee allowance, the African Foundation for Educational Development (AFFED) has argued that the purpose of allowance in our training institutions has been defeated and has outlived.
"The government must undertake the following to save training colleges from their current plight."
Cancel trainee allowance in order to modernize colleges."
Invest more than Gh400 million in college infrastructure construction. Colleges require dorms to be converted into hostels, classrooms to be changed into lecture halls, and trainees require updated libraries and modern laboratories. If we are still interested in offering incentives for trainees as a country, the better the incentive, is a total reduction of the extravagant fees they pay.”
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