UTAG strike : Some KNUST Students Return Home ; Following the protracted strike by the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana, some students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, have begun returning to their respective homes . The students express their dissatisfaction with being trapped because they are unsure when academic work will resume.
They have expressed particular dissatisfaction with the impact of the strike on their finances. Students have renewed their request for important stakeholders to help end the standoff, as public colleges face closure if the impasse is not resolved as soon as possible.
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We have been in school for weeks now, and there is no sign of the lectures resuming. Our groceries are finishing, we are running out of money. We can’t keep being here waiting till something is done about it. I will be forced to go home too if nothing is done about it
This issue is quite a bother for me. We shouldn’t have been made to resume in the first place then. We have paid fees but we sit here idle. I’m running out of money. I might as well just go back home
There have been calls for the lecturers’ strike, which is now in its fourth week, to be called off, but they say that they would only return to the classroom if their demands are granted.
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The National Labour Commission (NLC), on the other hand, claims to be sure that it would prevail in the legal struggle against the striking lecturers.
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, has stated that his ministry is working with the University Teachers Association of Ghana on their demands.
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