When two elephants engage in a duel, it is the grass that suffers and such has currently been the case of Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) and the government, which is rather affecting the innocent teacher trainees of which our noble Presbyterian College of Education (P.C.E) isn't an exception. We commend Teacher Trainee Association of Ghana (TTAG) for always being at the front line to address our current grievances of which the government has still remained nonchalant. With all due respect, we want to call upon religious bodies and other stakeholders to be in touch with government to look at the plight of teacher trainees.
Our elders say, "When the scent of a dead animal hasn't gotten to your reach then it hasn't rotten to the extent for you to have your share of the rotten smell". On this basis, we are poised with much regret to vent out the rotten smell killing our future slowly to the media and the general public for them to smell if such a treatment should be meted out to a prospective teachers whose only sin is to tell the government through
TTAG to settle the impasse between CETAG and itself for academic work to commence.
HOW THE STRIKE IS AFFECTING US.
If the government has still remained adamant to the numerous calls to see to the settlement of the matter or if the government is not aware our tutors are on strike, we want the media and other stake holders as a matter of urgency slate before them that our tutors are on strike for the past 21 working days! Academic work was the main purpose for which the 46 colleges were established and ever since the colleges reopened there hasn't been any academic work. The colleges of education are pursuing education together with affiliate universities who are also pursuing education but those universities are into active academic tuition and that of the colleges of education are still on a stand still as a result of the government and CETAG's duel. What has TTAG done to the government for them to throw the most important issue of which trainees were purposely in school to the dogs and failing to hear what we the student body are communicating to our mouth piece, TTAG to tell the government on our behalf?
Issues of security in the colleges hasn't been all that strong although SRC body is trying hard to salvage the situation, in fact there's no teacher on campus. Students on campus as a result of the strike are not under the auspices of any tutor who would have even help to tighten the security of the school. Students have befriended the entrance and has made it a point to go out of the school since academic work is halted as a result of the indefinite strike. We want to ask, what if something happens to them are you going to blame them for your inability to listen and also settle the current impasse between our tutors? We put it to the general public to have their rotten smell of which we stated above and smell with us for if we pleading to the government to bring back our tutors to the classroom is an unprecedented sin.
We want to put it before the media concerning to the newly admitted teacher trainees who are left stranded as a result of their sins for just applying to the various colleges of education to become teachers. If they were welcomed with a strike and no tutors to orient them for them to know their purpose in the colleges as well as the government not minding the tutors how assured are we that they will grow to love being called a teacher? For your information, I want to put it before you that sadly for them they don't even know their course outline and the programmes they are going to offer. They are left in the fate of anticipation and confusion praying each and every day to start academic activities but the government is dead on the issue.
It is so sad to view in the future that this impasse between CETAG and the government can minimise prospective applicant's interest who are willing to teach and want to apply for the colleges next year. Who wants to be in an institution whose concerns are irrelevant to the government of the day?
As the media, we recognise you as the forth arm of government who can drum it louder to the government and the general public. If by Wednesday at exactly 6:00am our tutors are not in class, WE SHALL ADVISE OURSELVES.
SRC Secretariat,
Presbyterian College of education,
Akropong-Akuapem.
SRC President
0541272328
General Secretary
0549410067
P. R. O
0557458136
Financial Secretary
0548606078
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Minister of Education
Ministry of Education
CETAG
TTAG
Christian Council
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