The Ghana Education Service (GES) is supposed to meet with the initiative of the four instructor associations which have pronounced a strike activity over the non-installment of their Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
Advertising Officer of the Education Ministry, Kwesi Kwarteng in a meeting with JoyNews on Tuesday said the gathering will "create a guide and connect on the most proficient method to finish this issue up."
"We trust that by the end of tomorrow [Wednesday] some headway would have been made," he told Emefa Apawu on Newsnight.
Mr. Kwarteng is hopeful that the different partners included would show responsibility and altruism to determine the stalemate. Answering calls by the Minority for schools to be closed down because of the strike activity, he noticed that the GES order for schools to stay open in spite of the modern activity is the best break arrangement. "We realize there is an issue and we realize there must be a choice that should be made… in the meantime, this takes generally excellent consideration of these youngsters while we take a gander at a quick goal of the strike activity which is simply tomorrow. That is even concerning the schools that are working the boarding framework in the SHS schools.
"Assuming you come to the essential level that is the elementary schools to the JHS level, we could never have closed down the schools since conceivable a few guardians didn't actually have any idea and the impulse to take their wards to school will be high," he expressed.
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Four instructor associations on Monday, July 4 pronounced an endless cross country strike over requests for the installment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
The associations, including the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT), are requesting that 20% of their essential compensation be paid to them.
"We can never again bear the difficulty. Considerably more thus, we reject the imbalance of compensations in the public administrations of this country. We have been constrained under the ongoing conditions to openly impart to Ghanaians on our aim to take to the streets, having gone past the June 30, 2022 cutoff time [that] we gave government for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance.
"Subsequently, we have chosen to set out on a strike activity powerful today, Monday, July 4, 2022. By this, we are illuminating the overall population that we are pulling out the entirety of our administrations in all the pre-tertiary training space - this incorporates educating and non-showing staff," the educators declared.
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