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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the running mate to the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that the party sees the restoration of allowances to trainee teachers and nurses as non-negotiable.

That, he explained, was because teacher education is critical to developing the quality human resource Ghana needed to succeed in the competitive global community.

Allowances

“We will restore the teacher and nursing training allowances – for us, it is non-negotiable. Every nation must prioritise certain sectors at every point in time and invest the necessary resources to reap maximum benefits. For the NPP, Ghana today needs to invest every necessary resource in education to give us the quality human resource we need to win the globally competitive economic battle,” he said.

Dr Bawumia stated this at the Dambai College of Education (DACE) on Monday, after listening to the concerns of students and lecturers of the college on conditions of teacher trainees and colleges of education across the country.

The Head of the Social Sciences Department at the college, Mr Lambert Ahiadzu Sefadzi, decried the conditions of colleges of education, stating that the current government had no clear policy framework for improving teacher education.

“There are a lot of problems for colleges of education but only one has gained prominence: the issue of the withdrawal of the teacher trainee allowances. However, there are other problems, including the inability of the government to implement fully the Colleges of Education Bill, and poor infrastructure”, he said.

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