The Ghanaian Teacher Trainees Association is dissatisfied with the delays in receiving their monthly payments, which have been in arrears for four months. The outstanding arrears for the 2020/2021 academic year, according to the association, fall between May and August.
Jonathan Dzunu, President of the Ghanaian Teacher Trainees Organisation, stated in a media interview that the association intended to approach the Ministry of Education about their concerns.
"We have not been given our allowances for the months of May and August of the 2020/2021 academic year." We've spoken with officials from the Student Loan Trust Fund, and they've assured us that they're working on a strategy to get the money to us."
"We plan to meet with other stakeholders, and we're hoping to speak with the President and learn our fate."
Prior to the 2016 elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration vowed to reinstate teacher and nurse trainee allowances that had been abolished by the NDC government in 2014.
The decision, according to the NDC administration, would allow it to build various educational facilities in the nation, abolish limits on entrance to various training institutions, and let trainees to access student loans.
The NPP government has struggled to make timely payments of allowances.