Yɛ gye yɛn sika- furious teacher trainees to gov’t

Teacher trainees across the 46 Colleges of Education are extremely angry about their unpaid allowance.

This has made them decide to embark on a demonstration.

Due to our checks, these trainees have started an agenda on telegram and now Twitter with the hashtag “Yɛ gye yɛn sika demonstration.”

However, trainees are yet to be paid their second semester allowance even though their semester just ended last week. Again, the government still owes them two months in their first semester.

After the first quarter of trainees allowance was paid in July, they were told to be receiving the second quarter of their money by the end of July.

The said demonstration is not to fight for their allowance alone, but their feeding components and bloated school fees which they consider as a total cheat.

Let’s go deep into the issue;

Feeding Component

Last year around March 15, the president of Ghana closed down schools which included Colleges of Education due to Covid-19. During this period, trainees stayed home and continued their studies online.

In a normal sense, half of trainees allowances is used to feed them while on campus. That is, out of the 400 cedis trainees receive as allowance, 196 cedis is used as feeding which goes straight to their colleges.

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With this, trainees are saying, that component of their allowance is to be paid to them since they were not fed by their college during their online studies at home. Isn’t this fair?

Bloated fees

There is a picture circulating on social media on the amount of fees teacher trainees are expected to pay in the 2021/2022 academic year.

Many trainees have raised concerns especially the level 400s who are expected to spend 4 months away from their campus, rent and feed themselves. They see these fees to be too much and must be reconsidered. They look forward to a total reduction of that fees.

The said fees are without examination fee which is to be paid to their affiliated colleges.

Take a look at the fee below;

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Next thing to also look at;

As the level 400s are currently going on a 4 month teaching practice away from campus, there should seek to it that, their allowance during this period must be paid in full without any difficulty.

Source: LEGACYNEWSGH.COM