In December last year, a Deputy Minister of Education in the erstwhile NDC government, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the abolition
of the teacher trainee allowances had increased enrolment in the colleges of education by 63.8 per cent.
Speaking at the launch of the restoration
of teacher trainee allowances at the Accra...
«The restoration
of the teacher trainee allowance is the first step on the road to ensuring that the teacher enjoys the exulted status it enjoyed in times past.
That is not all, the month of September is also going to witness the full realization of more flagship programmes of the NPP government including the implementation
of teacher trainee allowance as well as the nursing trainee allowance among several others.
President Mahama added that the replacement
of the teacher trainee allowance has again reduced pressure on government budget.
leadership
of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has registered its discontent with regards to principals who consistently extorted monies from teacher trainees in the name of utility bills.
The President
of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG), Samson Tagba, has described as «unjustifiable» the decision to dismiss 1,400 trainees for failing in some subjects.
He said the government was working hard to ensure that the late release of funds that usually incurred the displeasure
of teacher trainees became a thing of the past.
Speaking to Citi News, the National President
of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, Jonathan Apam, explained that an extension of the academic calendar...
Speaking to Citi News, the National President
of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, Jonathan Apam, explained that an extension of the academic calendar had become necessary in order for the students to stand a better chance of passing their upcoming exams.
Dozens
of teacher trainees besieged the Ministry of Education Wednesday morning to put pressure on the government to pay the feeding grant, which they claimed had not been paid to them.
This fall we're looking forward to welcoming a new batch
of teacher trainees through our Mama Glow Prenatal Yoga Program.
There is usually a limit on the maximum number
of teacher trainees in one batch.
Furthermore, they argue, spending two years as a teacher apprentice would reduce the numbers
of teacher trainees dropping out.
In Malaysia, for example, strong focus is placed on «values and attitudes» as an important consideration in the selection
of teacher trainees.
What might the future hold for the development
of teacher trainees, as well as the educators that «train the trainees»?
So what might the future hold for the development
of teacher trainees, and also those educators who «train the trainees», look like?
It's already been criticised for growing too fast and Ofsted voiced concern about the increased number
of teacher trainees possibly reducing quality, as already noted.
The wastage rate
of teacher trainees at Bradford SCITT fell from 10 per cent...
Could today's technology have helped me and my cohort
of teacher trainees more easily share the materials that we spent so much time developing?
Mulama S, The sexuality education needs
of teacher trainees in Kenya, Post-Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship Report Series No. 5, 2002, http://www.arsrc.org/downloads/sldf/FinalReport%20Stella%20Mulama2006.pdf.
Not exact matches
Home to the beach resort Acapulco, Guerrero was the scene
of the September 2014 disappearance
of 43
trainee teachers, who the government says it believes were massacred by a drug gang working with corrupt local officials and police.
Ask any child care
teacher who is in charge
of a group
of potty
trainees and they will tell you just how difficult it can be for little arms and hands to manipulate complicated pants, overalls and other clothing when the urge to pee or poop is looming.
In a recent
Teacher Training weekend, one
of the
trainees opened up about a conversation she had with her father.
NYC based
Teacher Trainees are welcome to observe or take up to 10 prenatal yoga classes at the UWS Prenatal Yoga Center location during the span
of the
Teacher Training
Be prepared to take the seat
of the
teacher and teach fellow
teacher trainees as well as the two community classes
This system meant that even highly qualified SHS graduates willing and able to enroll as
teacher trainees found themselves wickedly denied access because the colleges could not admit them as a result
of the quota system.»
President Nana Akufo - Addo presenting his maiden state
of the nations address earlier this year promised to honor his pledge by restoring the allowance to all nursing and
teacher trainees across the country.
The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition
of Concerned
Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore
teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.
Some final year nursing
trainee students say they fear the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government might short - change them in the restoration
of allowance to nurses and
teacher trainees across the country.
Government restored the
Teacher Trainee Allowance covering over 49,000 teacher trainees from 41 public Colleges of Education for the 2017/18 academi
Teacher Trainee Allowance covering over 49,000
teacher trainees from 41 public Colleges of Education for the 2017/18 academi
teacher trainees from 41 public Colleges
of Education for the 2017/18 academic year.
A statement signed by Tagbor Sampson, the President TTAG and issued to the Ghana News Agency, said the Government had on countless platforms made it obvious that students
of tertiary institutions, for that matter
teacher trainees, should not be worried with the payment
of utilities.
When Nurses and
Teacher Trainee allowances have not been restored and several graduates from private Nursing Training Schools are picketing for financial clearance to be employed by the ministry
of health.
The flagbearer
of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Mahama has said his government would not backtrack on its decision to scrap
teacher trainee allowances saying he would rather lose the elections than restore the allowances.
President Mahama on Thursday tweeted saying: «On the matter
of trainee teacher allowances, better to lose on principle than win using falsehood.
A, says the money that would have spent on paying
teacher trainee allowances has been invested in infrastructures in the colleges
of education across the country.
The Government
of Ghana has finally fulfilled its promise to the 38 assisted Government
teacher trainees in the country by paying out their feeding grant to the colleges through the GetFund.
Students
of the Colleges
of Education who were after so many months, not paid their feeding grant arrears showed their displeasure in the media through their Association,
Teacher Trainees Association
of Ghana, National Union
of Ghana Students and the
Teacher Unions, until Government Released GHC 62.7 m Feeding Grant Arrears to be paid to Colleges
of Education.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com
Chairwoman
of the report Christine Gilbert said: «By 2020, today's four - year - olds will be entering higher education, training or work, and today's
trainee teachers will be school leaders.
I urge our
teachers» training institutions to explore and expand the educational offerings that will cater for the all - round formation
of their
trainees.
On the nursing
trainee allowance, he said the SLTF was, at the moment, not in charge
of that because with the
teacher trainees, the fund received the green light from the Ministry
of Education.
A
teacher trainee of the Accra College
of Education who spoke to the Daily Graphic on condition
of anonymity, while applauding the government for restoring the allowance, however, said the amount was smaller than expected.
Teacher trainees across the country have welcomed the reintroduction
of their allowance but say they are not happy that the 12 - month duration has been reduced to eight months.
Government says it will be considering an upward review
of the newly restored
teacher trainee allowance from the current 400 cedis to about 500 cedis.
At the a ceremony to officially launched the reintroduced
trainee allowance, executives
of the
Teacher Training Association
of Ghana appealed to the government to increase the amount.
According to the District Chief Executive
of Bunkprurugu,
teachers in the town has fled, new
teacher trainees posted to the town have refused to come because
of the conflict and all business activities have ceased due to the conflict.
The 2016 presidential candidate
of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, has assured nursing and
teacher trainees across the country
of the full restoration
of their allowances if he is voted into power.
Akufo - Addo
trainees Dr. Bawumia, in reassuring the nursing students, noted that in the very first budget
of an Akufo - Addo government in 2017, «the restoration
of nursing
trainee and
teacher allowances will be a line item in the budget.
However, having inherited an oil economy, and with Ȼ200 billion in revenues, Dr Bawumia bemoaned the cancellation
of the
teacher and nursing
trainee allowances by the Mahama government.
That government also scrapped
teacher trainee allowances, asking all
of them to register with the Students Loan Trust.