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Educational reforms would fail if
teachers' conditions are not improved
Navrongo (U/E), March 19, GNA - The Upper East Regional
Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers
(GNAT), Mr Linus Cofie Attey has warned that the New
Educational Reforms would become a fiasco if salaries and
conditions of service of teachers were not improved.
He sounded the caution in an interview with the Ghana News
Agency (GNA) at the weekend, during the inauguration of the
University for Development Studies (UDS) branch of the GNAT
in Navrongo.
"It is time Government stopped paying lip service to the
improvement of the condition of service and salaries of
teachers and redeemed its pledges, if the quality of
education we have been yearning for were to be achieved", he
emphasised.
He explained that many stakeholders in education had not
been consulted on the Government's New Educational Reforms
scheduled to begin in September 2007 and that no consensus
had also been arrived at on the subject.
Mr Attey noted that it was the desire of teachers to
collaborate with their employers to raise productivity in an
enabling environment and under workable conditions.
The Regional GNAT Secretary also urged the National
Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) to team up with
GNAT to form a formidable group to enable them to fight on a
common front.
"Formation of splinter groups cannot be a panacea to solving
teachers’ problems. The solution lies in the forging of a
united front", he indicated.
He exhorted GNAT members in UDS to exhibit a high sense of
commitment to the branch, saying, the mission of GNAT was to
unify all teachers in pre-tertiary educational institutions
to strive for better conditions of services and job security
as well enhancing the professional status of members.
GNA
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