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.
We would have spent gthat to
pay teacher trainees alone,» he added.
Not exact matches
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
«The NDC government can not
pay the National health insurance, free maternal health,
teacher and nursing
trainees allowance, feeding grants, school feeding, contractors, youth employment among others so where is the money?
According to the
teacher trainees, promises to
pay the grants by President John Dramani Mahama and his Vice, Paa Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, after the scrapping of the
trainee allowances have hit a dead end.
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.
Planned cuts to bursaries for
trainee primary
teachers in England, starting next year, have sparked fears that the
pay reductions could fuel the
teacher recruitment crisis.
Currently, Citizenship
teacher trainees have no access to
teacher training bursaries to help
pay fees.
Funds used for bursaries could be used to directly fund ITT, as could the resulting administrative savings and the money currently loaned to
trainee teachers that may never be
paid back.
According to calculations conducted by the Times Educational Supplement (TES), the changes in
pay could affect the
pay of over half of
trainee primary
teachers.
Trainee teachers will be
paid in line with the unqualified
teacher salary scale starting at # 20,909 in Inner London and # 16,626 across the rest of the country, alongside a valuable training package leading to QTS.
Trainee teachers have no access to bursaries to help
pay fees, and existing
teachers are not included on key government programmes such as specialist leaders in education, run by the National College.
«The average cost to government of providing this student finance is large (between # 13,000 and # 18,000 per
trainee for postgraduate ITT and between # 10,000 and # 27,000 for undergraduate ITT), as a
teacher with typical career progression would not
pay back their loan before it is written off.