VC asks teachers to live according to their means

Professor Mrs, Esi Awuah, Vice Chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, has advised teachers against ostentatious lifestyles.

She emphasized that though the salaries and other conditions of teachers were not enough, teachers needed to live according to their means.

Prof. Mrs. Awuah gave the advice at a three-day conference of the Brong-Ahafo Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in Sunyani.

The fourth quadrennial conference was attended by 300 delegates drawn from the 13 GNAT districts in the Region on the theme “Education in Crisis: The Path to 2015 – Policy and Funding for Quality Education”.

“We should try as much as possible to live according to our means,” Prof. Mrs Awuah told the conference and asked teachers to ensure that they channel part of their monthly salaries into productive ventures to sustain them.

The Vice Chancellor expressed concern about poor parental care, indicating that the situation whereby many parents shirk their responsibility of providing their children with basic educational needs was not the best.

Prof. Mrs, Awuah emphasized that there still remained deficit in Ghana’s educational infrastructure and appealed to the government and all stakeholders to rally together and take proactive steps to provide adequate classroom blocks in basic schools.

Dr George Adjei Hinneh, Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Education, asked teachers to upgrade themselves to enable them correspond with the advancement of ICT.

He noted that the manual methods of teaching was gradually fading out from the educational system, and teachers needed to get themselves abreast with modern methods of teaching.

Mr Michael Nsiah-Adjapong, acting Brong-Ahafo Regional Chairman of GNAT, asked the delegates to elect competent regional executives who could champion the cause of teachers and GNAT in general.