The President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has recommended that the government limits the payment of allowances to only mathematics and science teacher trainees.
According to Franklin Cudjoe, if Ghana is truly interested in global education and its impact on the economy, it is prudent to start thinking ?critically about the number of science and maths teachers that we have.?
It could be recall that, government scrapped the payment of teacher trainee allowances, a move which angered affected students and some stakeholders in the educational sector.
However, students are threatening to vote against the government if the allowances are not restored.
But the General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said the government will not be swayed by threats, stressing that the purposes for which the allowances were instituted are no longer relevant.
Meanwhile, Franklin Cudjoe who was speaking on Citi FM?s news analysis programme, The Big Issue, commended the government for taking the bold step to scrap teacher trainee allowances.
For him, for far too long, government has tried to be paternalistic; “……….. ?they?ve tried to take care of everything?that kind of mentality is not in tandem with the modern times.?
Source: spyGhana.com
