The Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has called on the government on Wednesday, January, 26, to find lasting solutions to the ongoing strike embarked upon by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to avoid public universities from being shut down.
According to GRASAG, failure to resolve the issue will lead to the closure of public universities, per the statute, after 21 days of the strike which has led to the withdrawal of UTAG's services.
“We wish to passionately appeal to the government to as a matter of urgency to take immediate steps to meet the demand of UTAG to enable academic work to resume. If the strike continues, by statute public universities would be compelled to shut down after 21 days of nonacademic work,” a portion of their statement said.
While calling on the government to resolve the impasse between UTAG and the government, GRASAG also appealed to UTAG to ponder over the negative consequences of their strike on academics including its potency of affecting the academic calendar.
GRASAG also appealed to UTAG to call off the strike due to its effects on academics.
Public university lecturers nationwide had embarked on an industrial strike on Monday, January, 10 to get their demands met by the government.
UTAG, among several other concerns raised, wants "to have government to reconsider the payment of a more
realistic research allowance" to lecturers.
They said the research allowance agreed by the government is not enough and therefore must be increased.
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