News<\/span><\/a> following the reopening of the semester at TTU, Prof. Boakye-Yiadom said the association was ready to resume teaching but required written assurances from the government to convince its members that their concerns had been addressed.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are dealing with technocrats. If you come without concrete document to prove to them that this is what the minister has said, Ghanaians don\u2019t believe the politicians again, they are looking for either MOU from the Minister just as it has been done with the pre-tertiary teachers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are ready to teach. I can confidently say that because we are losing contact hours, and it is not helping us,\u201d he stated, adding that students and their parents were also bearing the cost of the prolonged disruption to the academic calendar.<\/p>\n
Prof. Boakye-Yiadom noted that students who had returned to campus for the semester were spending money on accommodation and other expenses despite the interruption to academic activities. He warned that further delays could place additional financial pressure on parents when teaching eventually resumes.<\/p>\n
TUTAG\u2019s ongoing strike stems from concerns over unpaid remuneration for lecturers on post-retirement contracts, changes to agreed conditions and schemes of service, and a GTEC directive on PhD requirements for career progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) chapter at Takoradi Technical University (TTU) says it will only call off its strike and return to the classroom after receiving a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from the Ministry of Education. The chapter\u2019s president, Prof. Frederick Boakye-Yiadom, said although the Education Ministry had agreed to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":17879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17880,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions\/17880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}