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He said teacher trainee allowance would be restored this month, and that of nurses next month, and reiterated Government's commitment to the construction of the Eastern Corridor road and the construction of a bridge on River Oti.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«He said he would restore the [teacher and] nursing trainee allowance after he had promised not to reverse the decision,» he said, adding «We need a decisive leadership.»

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.

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.

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.

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President Mahama said «we converted all these teacher trainee colleges into colleges of education and that made them tertiary institutions and degree awarding.

He said government's introduction and commitment to implementing Free SHS Education, the restoration of allowances for nurses and teacher trainees and the School Feeding Programme are all geared towards providing quality and affordable education in the country.

He said government's introduction and commitment to implementing Free SHS Education, the restoration of allowances for nurses and teacher trainees and the School...

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According to President Akufo - Addo, the same people who are saying his administration has done nothing over the last 16 months in office are the same persons who, prior to the 2016 elections, stated that free SHS was not possible, and described as lies the pledge to restore the nursing and teacher trainee allowances.

Partly, it's a matter of creativity, says Childs: When she recruits teacher trainees, she looks for «creativity; people who have alternative ways of explaining things.»

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Ellen Greaves, a co-author of the report, said: «The different routes to achieving qualified teacher status in England cost the taxpayer different amounts per trainee.

Mr Thornbery said: «It's incredible, that at present, the ITT does not provide trainee teachers with an adequate understanding of these issues.

Brian Lightman, Association of School and College Leaders general secretary, said: «We are extremely concerned at the significant shortfall in new trainee teachers in secondary subjects.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «It is shocking that at a time of rising pupil numbers the Department for Education has missed its teacher trainee recruitment targets for the last four years.

Taylor reminisced about his own experience as a trainee teacher and how, after one particularly disastrous attempt at a lesson, one of the pupils came back after the class and said: «That was really good, thank you».

James Noble - Rogers, executive director for the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, has said the government should consider making bursaries available for all trainee tTeachers, has said the government should consider making bursaries available for all trainee teachersteachers.

He said: «There are very generous bursaries in some areas and we should look at making them available to all trainee teachers, not just for those with first - class degrees in particular subjects... It is right to incentivise recruitment in particular subjects but there is a case for across - the - board bursaries, because we want good people applying in all subjects.»

James, a new - trainee with Teach First, said: «I wanted to be a teacher because I wanted to change lives, but still I felt extremely nervous about the idea of being personally out in the classroom.

Three - quarters of trainee and student and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) say they have already considered leaving the teaching profession, according to a survey by ATL.

«Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money,» said NAO head Amyas Morse.

Mr Wormald with Sinead O'Sullivan, director of programme delivery at the National College for Teaching and Leadership — which is responsible for teacher training — said on more than 12 occasions to the committee that the government's School Direct scheme, in which schools recruit trainee teachers, was the answer to recruitment problems.

Ms Blower said large numbers of teachers leaving the profession, combined with a possible shortfall in the recruitment of trainee teachers, could be «disastrous for children and young people».

However, others have welcomed the move, which they say will allow trainees with the potential to be great teachers from being barred from the profession on the basis of the skills test alone.

The Department for Education has launched a television advertising campaign to encourage more applications, saying that 35,000 trainee teachers need to be recruited every year.

The third report will reveal new mentor standards which Gibb said are designed to «bring consistency» to the role of school - based mentors for trainee teachers, whose numbers are increasing as a result of more teacher training occurring in schools via programmes such as Teach First and School Direct.

As part of his recommendations, Bennett said trainee teachers should «observe, practice and review», and suggested providing mentors and that trainees should «create a tangible portfolio» demonstrating their proficiency in behaviour management.

A spokesperson said: «As we see more multi-academy trusts, the opportunity for teachers and trainees to work across the trust schools in a range of environments will increase.»

Caroline Newman, vice-president of the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru, said trainees needed more classroom experience.

Brian Lightman, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said one day a week at university was not enough for trainee teachers without degrees.

ASCL is also concerned that recruitment agencies are offering incentives to trainees on initial teacher training (ITT) programmes to sign up with them rather than applying directly to schools, with one third of headteachers saying they were aware of agencies offering cash, laptops and tablets to trainees if they signed up.

In an email, seen exclusively by Schools Week, the NCTL said that any teacher training providers that have already recruited at least 90 per cent of their allowed number of trainees, can request an increase in the limit up to 25 per cent beyond their original allocation, except in PE and undergraduate courses.

But the government has encouraged a shift away from the higher education route, which IFS said had been reflected through new school - based routes being taken by 20 per cent of trainee teachers in the last academic year.

«We have removed the cap for schools and providers on training allocations for maths and increased the bursaries and scholarships available for postgraduate initial teacher training recruitment in maths, so that trainees with at least a 2:2 degree will receive # 25,000,» said a Department for Education spokesman.

David Owen, head of teacher education at Sheffield Hallam, said he expected a «bit more of a push» to the Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber from Teach First, but said it shows «how difficult» it was to get trainees into regions that need teachers.

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: «Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money.»

Dr Allen said the best prospect for the government to up the number of MFL trainees was to run overseas schemes and to recruit from «where we think there is an oversupply of teachers».