The Leadership of the Teacher Trainee’s Association of Ghana (TTAG) has registered their displeasure towards the decision by the Management of some Colleges of Education for billing trainees above the 15% threshold increment approved by the government for the 2022/2023 academic year.
In a release dated Thursday, 26th January 2023, Leadership stated bills at their disposal from some of the Colleges of Education have disclosed the accumulated 15% threshold and some excessive additional charges which management of such colleges have refused to break down as to what such charges constitute.
“The leadership has on its tables, bills from some Colleges of Education which accumulate the 15% increment approved by parliament and some other outrageous extra charges. An explicit individual breakdown of such extra charges has not been outlined neither have the students been engaged on these”, TTAG emphatically stated
The Leadership has therefore called on the Management of such Colleges to return to their drawing boards and make the essential ‘corrections’, as they will stand with their members (trainees) to boycott the payment of such extra charges.
“We wish to state unequivocally that the leadership is displeased with such a decision from the Management of those colleges and will Stand with trainees against such extra charges until they are reversed”, the Leadership of TTAG wrote.
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The Students’ Representative Councils in the various colleges were also cautioned against the negotiation of such extra charges and surcharging them on students. They were urged to stand firm and straightforward challenges they will encounter to the leadership for the right actions to be taken by the association.
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