This week, universities in Ghana are on the brink of closing down as a three-week strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) over destitute pay remains uncertain.
The last time this had to happen was in 1995.
The mechanical activity is over a matter that has been waiting for more than a decade. The government has dragged its feet and UTAG says its managers have gone back on their possess words and commitment within the past and so won’t be coming back to the classroom until they see a pay rise.
“Individuals are not asking for cash to be tycoons. They fair need to outlive,†says Dr Sulemana Idrissa.
Sulemana was born within the Savanna regional town of Tuna.
He considered at the University of Ghana and in 2008 went to the University of Missouri to consider and went on to do a PhD in Financial matters. In 2014, he came back to require up a instructing work at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Organization (GIMPA).
“I earned more as a understudy within the US than as a teacher in Ghana so I had to take off,†- A speaker's encounter
Dr Idissa Sulemaana, Former Lecturer, Economics Office, University of Ghana.
“At GIMPA, indeed my office had no discuss-conditioning. I complained to everyone I seem complain to and individuals thought it was a extravagance for a teacher to have an discuss-condition in his office,†he said.
For him, that almost about wholes up his disappointment. He moved on from GIMPA and got a part at the College of Ghana two a long time afterward where he said things got way better but still not sufficient.
“By the time I came to Legon, my compensation was less than ¢5,000 a month. This implies I earned so much more being a graduate understudy within the US than being a full-time teacher in Ghana,†he said.
He surrendered in scarcely two a long time at the College of Ghana and went back to the Joined together States to require up a work as a financier.
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