To avoid the closure of public universities in Ghana, the Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has called on the government to resolve the concerns of striking members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has been on strike since January 10, 2022, in protest of the government’s inability to implement the interim market premium agreed with in 2013. Muntaka Mubarak requested that the Education Committee of Parliament, as well as other stakeholders, intervene to address UTAG’s concerns.He said this engagement will avert a distortion of universities’ academic calendars.
It is my hope that our colleagues from the education committee will take this up. Already, the timetable of our universities has been distorted. For those who are university students, you have them sitting at home since August for school to open in January. The further delay between UTAG and the government will further exacerbate the situation because it will distort the academic calendar
To minimize resistance, the Asawase member also called on the Ministry of Education to include all key stakeholders when making decisions on major educational reforms.
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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. 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.
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