The Minister of Education, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu, has announced that the Mahama-led government intends to gradually change the teacher trainee allowance to an enhanced loan scheme.
Speaking to the leadership of the Conference of Principals of the College of Education, Mr. Iddrisu, explained that although there are ongoing discussions being held regarding the transition, the payment of the allowance will continue until the government reaches a final decision.
He said, “But off head, there’s no way to feed a student at the university so we will have to work out a transition from the allowance into an enhanced studennt loan to feed themselves but in the interim, they will still get allowance.”
According to the Minister, the loan scheme is to help ensure sustainable feeding of teacher trainees in the various colleges. The matter of the payment of teacher trainee allowances has been a campaign point for both the NDC and the NPP during the past elections.
The allowance was initially scrapped by the NDC government and brought back by the NPP government when they came into power in 2016.
The current talk on the transition seems to revert to the era where the payment of the allowance will be scrapped, as the then President John Dramani Mahama at the time, had mentioned that the NDC would prefer to rather absorb the teacher and nursing trainees onto a student loan scheme rather than the payment of allowances.
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