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Teachers Trainee Allowance causes 40,000 teacher shortages

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  • ..... 8 years ago

    WHY ARE WE PRACTISING APARTHEID IN GHANA? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL FOR FREE UP TO SHS LEVEL WHILST OTHERS PAY? WHY THEN DO WE CONDEMN APARTHEID? IF TEACHERS''ALLOWA' IS NO LONGER USEFUL, THEN SCRAP THE FREE EDUCATION F ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    LOOKING AT THE DESTRUCTION NDC HAS CAUSED TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY IN THE PAST 6 YEARS, ANY TALK ABOUT THIS INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION WINNING THE 2016 GENERAL ELECTIONS, WOULD BE DEEMED AS A BIG INSULT ON THE INTELL ...
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  • WHY SHOULD I WASTE MY TIME ON THIS SH 8 years ago

    THIS RENTED PRESS IS AT IT BEST. WHO WILL FILL THE VACANCY OF THOSE WHO WOULD BE DISMISSED? THE UNQUALIFIED WHO COULDNT GAIN ADMISSION IN THE FIRST PLACE, RIGHT? WHAT A MESS IN GHANA?

  • Victor 8 years ago

    There are a lot of people who are more than qualified and are on the waiting list! You are a joker.

  • Mendom 8 years ago

    Is that research group credible at all? Are they aware that students are unable to report to school because of their inability to pay their fees? Oh Ghana everybody wants to eat so they will do anything to eat.

  • kyae 8 years ago

    dis is simply propagadous. none sense wat kind of research did u do. anybody can post anything in de name of research. where was ur results until pple started deir demo . a bad gov will get nothing if not dese. everybody do a ...
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  • Abubakar ras umar 8 years ago

    PLS our parents find it very difficult to afford the fees.some have duvided minds we have to struggle after classes and during week-end to earn aliving at the expense of our studies therefore we end up failing academically.Go ...
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  • Owusu 8 years ago

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  • USMAN 8 years ago

    If you want to know the brains behind the killing of the two American citizens in Akosombo then read this. According to the story" The two who are leaders of the African American community in Akwamu were recently accused by t ...
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  • John 8 years ago

    Why not build more colleges to admit more as the government promised.

    If tertiary is a good thing, why did it not start with the military training. You expert a teacher who is going to train others not to undergo any train ...
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  • KOFI 8 years ago

    ALLOWA. ANCIENT LEGACY. DISMISS THEM

  • Abubakari Fatawu 8 years ago

    Oh Mr. Government please do something about this Allowa

  • salam 8 years ago

    If teacher trainees want they should stop and go to the various universities and trained and come out as degree holders. In these universities, they should ask the vice chancellors to pay them allawa. Allah have mercy on the ...
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  • Bionic 8 years ago

    I think you are right

  • dina 8 years ago

    w) y3 kwasi piii

  • Nana Odasane Adwenpaye 8 years ago

    Why instigate and politicize every state policy? Where does that money come from? Most of you politicians don't pay taxes. Wait for Nana Addo to come and restore the students' "allowa" should he win the 2016 elections. Colleg ...
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  • lnnocent 8 years ago

    pls Minister why ar u telling lies, oh God help Ghana because leaders we no ar telling lies because of political power, since u had e office as minister of education hav u been to college of education before hw they ar findin ...
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  • cashflow 8 years ago

    Hmm.you scrap allowances to campaign come 2016.we will chop ndc money nyafu nyafu but you will never see top.foools.

  • Faruk 8 years ago

    Allowance was cancelled before you willingly applied. Many of you would not have gotten addmission or even collified and you know it. so what are you talking about?

  • Abubakari Fatawu 8 years ago

    You should think before you comment because not everybody is financial able

  • Victor 8 years ago

    With this type of English, l wonder how you got admission into Training College in the first place!

  • Give Jobs to the Youth 8 years ago

    Go for Student Loans

  • JOSEPH KM 8 years ago

    WAS IT MAHAMA WHO INTRODUCED THE ALLAWANCE? TWEAAAA

  • Ericus Nyosibia 8 years ago

    Haven't the Government ( Mahama ) and he so call Executives enjoyed allowance or free education before? if the also enjoyed it before and now they have scrap the allowance to me I dont have anything to say. but only God , th ...
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  • Victor 8 years ago

    Are you also aspiring to enter Training College with this type of English? God save our kids!

  • Nana Odasane Adwenpaye 8 years ago

    Emphatically "No", young thief! The allowance was introduced in 1991 when Mahama already had his degree. He did not enjoy it. However, if you want to enjoy what your fathers and grand fathers enjoyed earlier in life, first li ...
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  • k.k 8 years ago

    This is a propaganda, and nothing else.The most annoying thing is that, the so called loans are not disbursed on time and parents and students have to contract loan somewhere to pay their fees in the first place.

  • Victor 8 years ago

    You went to Training College from Secondary School; was it free then?

  • Sir Bobby 8 years ago

    its very simple..... the ministry should just absorb the unemployed graduates to fill the 40.000 vacancies as stated by the minister because we all received students loans when we were at the university and if the teacher tra ...
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  • Kweaa DCE 8 years ago

    nonses

  • Kweaa DCE 8 years ago

    nkwasiasem

  • GH POLITICS 8 years ago

    Graduates trained teachers are romming for jobs, yet we complain of no teachers.my GOD deliver us

  • KASAVUBU MORDZI 8 years ago

    Am mathematically challenged (I wrote my O/Level Mathematics Nine (9)times over a period of 18 years i.e, 1980-1998)
    If you introduced allowance and decided to place a quota on the number of teachers, how can you produce the ...
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  • Caring man 8 years ago

    I am surprise this researchers say they feed trainees 3 times a day.if so why shd the principals force them to pay the feeding again!!! This foolish reasearchers shd always find out b4 they comment foolish people.

  • Caring man 8 years ago

    If u upgraded them 2 tertiary then give them degrees since the universities take degree.or do we have universities been given diploma.foolish ppl.wat about the nurses are the not also in short supply so why give them allawa

  • KASAVUBU MORDZI 8 years ago

    Te criticism has instigated...HAPPY is pronounced SAME in a country not very far on our east. So those we are training to teach our kids are so daft and dunce that they have to be told by others that the scrapping of the allo ...
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  • kindergarten kids a.k.a Ghanaian 8 years ago

    E dey beeeeeee keke.
    More is yet to come watch out for more.
    You can't decide not to vote.
    You must vote

  • Alice Boatemaa 8 years ago

    if we are talking of space and previous quota then why didn't the college's enroll 600 students in 2013 because it was 3 badges seeking admission. you will send your sponsorship form to this district and they will tell you th ...
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  • Kwame W. 8 years ago

    Alice, seriously are you a teacher trainee too.
    Wow !!! And you are in second year so you'll be potentially teaching my kid by the end of next year.
    By the way, what is your major area of study? My advice to you: read one s ...
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  • Kwame W. 8 years ago

    there is a little bit of propaganda in this report but we should also analyse the situation on our hands seriously as nation to resolve them amicably.
    Looking at the way the country is broke and the mismanagement and corrupt ...
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  • Nyabni 8 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmmmmm Ghana for us

  • Nonkpiera paul 8 years ago

    Please the university students should leave as alone. We beg them. They government should please let us know whether or not they are going to pay our feeding fees. The university students pay fee yearly but we pay every semis ...
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  • Miss Advocate Kaness 8 years ago

    The most important thing is our feeding fee we pay almost Gh$600 for a semester and even not academic year.we are pleading His Excellency to do that and if alowan is considered we will much appreciate.

  • Miss Advocate Kaness 8 years ago

    The most important thing is our feeding fee, we pay almost Gh$600 for a semester and even not academic year.we are pleading to His Excellency to do that and if alowan is considered we will be much appreciate.

  • Adrah Moses 8 years ago

    When it comes issues like this, leave it for teachers like us to talk. As much as scrapping of allowance had increased enrollment, it had also kept some talents in the house. I had admission at KNUST in 2010 to offer Bsc. Bi ...
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  • ambolex 8 years ago

    then why do you continued to pay the college of health. some of us have regretted this profession. we shall continue to be in the darkness. unless we take Right decision.

  • member1 8 years ago

    1.Admissions in every institution in Ghana is based on a quota system
    2.You paid teachers only three months after working for years.
    3. You have put a ban on the recruitment of teachers for 10yrs
    4Graduates who pursued edu ...
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  • Angel 8 years ago

    Let us be realistic!Money does not improve education; It is interest!Many people are not interested in teaching, thus lowering standards. What do we want in this country? Quality education or money? Some people think that Ala ...
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  • konadu 8 years ago

    Der re graduate teachers unemployed because of embargo, what do u mean by shortage of teachers. this government n previous governments are all failures. dont link shortage of teachers to allowances

  • illy 8 years ago

    what a zuku professor our time Will come surely not too far

  • JACOB LAARI 8 years ago

    injustice is the grassroot of chaos.
    why teacher trainees in such a situation.
    Because their profession is considered worthless to Mother Ghana.

  • Angel 8 years ago

    Gov't took a good decision to srcap alawa as this will ensure the right people who are interested in teaching are trained. Many people go to COEs just b/c of alawa, not b/c they choose the profession. For the past years, recr ...
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  • Collins code 8 years ago

    How we dearly suffer in live us teacher trainee. you peoples do not care about us.God will look after our suffering and punish you accordingly

  • Nana Odasane Adwenpaye 8 years ago

    God will never punish Prez Mahama for giving students full access to students Loan. Ghana has come of age and tertiary education is not free anywhere on the globe. What more, you eat three square meals a day and also assured ...
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  • Nana Kwame 8 years ago

    I don't think u have tried America yet. Government grants to it's citizens ensures u have free money to pay your fees n rent, with something left for food. The American government invest in her citizens. Put politics aside n ...
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  • Nana Oduro 8 years ago

    I am pleading with the media to provide us with the photos and names of all the demonstrators. They are potentially corrupt and cannot be good materials for transforming our country. Dismiss them all, principals!! Ask them w ...
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  • Nana Kwame 8 years ago

    I believe the gab could be closed if all colleges are granted a degree. Most teachers are seeking higher education with better salaries. The current generation is more innovative, exposed, n hence Will do anything to go up in ...
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  • Isacc Arko from Bosuso 8 years ago

    why is the government behaving in this way.
    God is watching all of us.
    Remember the bible says the kings heart is in the hands of the Lord............. We want back our allowance.

  • nanaba 8 years ago

    Prof. Naana was somebody when it was announced dat she was going to be the minister of education brought soo many excitement to me bcos she is a technocrat who knows de inside out of educational issues in GH.but unfortunately ...
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  • peter 8 years ago

    Innocent saying nonsense!!! What's the lies in what the minister said? Lack of knowledge!!!

  • JS 8 years ago

    If article 847 suggested that CoE are tertiary then PRINCOF should decide on giving trainees their balance of self paid feeding fees.also they should expect trainees do behave like tertiary students meaning no devotions,unifo ...
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  • peter 8 years ago

    Eeeeeei! Collins Code, are you also a teacher ? Or rather to be? With that English ? Hell no!

  • Nkwaseasem 8 years ago

    God will punish the ministery of education and the deputy. stupid