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(ZEBILLA) BAWKU WEST: GNAT issues communiquÃƒÂ© on educational reforms

Date Created : 10/20/2008 1:08:05 PM : Story Author : GhanaDistrict.Com

The Upper East Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) at the weekend called on government to embark on regular in service training programmes for all categories of teachers.

A communiqué issued at the end of a two-day workshop held at Zebilla said this would keep them in tune with the current needs of teachers under the new reforms particularly in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The workshop was aimed at examining the Educational Reforms after one year of its implementation.

The communiqué, signed by Simon Akudugu, Course Prefect, commended the government for upgrading the Teacher Training Institutions for professional efficiency and providing transportation and other infrastructure for the institutions and directorates.

It noted that under the government policy in implementing the "Baah-Wiredu Computer per Pupil Project”, the teacher should be considered the first to handle the teaching and learning of ICT.

The Communiqué explained that as a way of motivating teachers, Ghana Education Service (GES) and the government should as a matter of urgency approve the collective agreement of teachers and conditions of service in line with the labour Act 2003, Act 651.

It said to overcome the problem of the shortage of teachers, intake into Teacher Training Institutions should be increased as some colleges had the capacity to absorb more students than they presently admitted.