TEACHER TRAINEES RETURN TO SCHOOL AMIDST FEARS

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A visit by Ashanti Today to the some Colleges of Education in the Ashanti region showed that students have started arriving on the various campuses from their short break. 

There is however an atmosphere of uneasy calm among those students for fears of confrontation by their leaders as a result of the declared indefinite strike by the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, TTAG. 

At the Saint Louis College of Education in Kumasi, an appreciable number of the students had already reported to school upon the resumption of academic activities from Today. 

Some of them however complained to our Correspondent that they had already been confronted by their SRC Executives for defying the strike orders which is to press home the teacher trainees’ demand for restoration of their Allowance. 

A number of parents who accompanied their wards to school, also looked apprehensive about the fate of their children on campus amidst the uncertainty of whether or not the children can comfortably remain on campus. 

In an interview, the Principal of the College, Mrs. Dame Comfort Boakye-Yiadom told Ashanti Today that school has officially resumed and that academic work will start without any delay adding that everything is set for the conduct of Quizzes this week saying that the lecturers are all set to teach any number of students who report to school. 

To demonstrate the preparedness of the administration for full academic work, Mrs. Boakye-Yiadom said meals will be served to all the students who will report.

 At the time of our visit, all the staff were at post going about their duties. 

At the Wesley College of Education, also in Kumasi, the College Secretary who gave her name only as Ceci, told our Correspondent that some of the students, mostly the physically disabled ones even reported to school yesterday but could not tell the exact number of students on campus. 

According to her, the College had not yet received any official communication about the supposed strike by TTAG and that any such communication would come from the Principals of Colleges of Education secretariat. 

Until any such official information is received, academic work will resume as scheduled.

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