The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has announced measures to address some concerns raised by the Colleges of Education Teachers’ Association of Ghana (CETAG) in an effort to end their ongoing two-month strike.

According to a press statement signed by Director-General of GTEC, Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdullai, GTEC has paid the top-up of research allowance for 44 out of the 46 Colleges of Education, with the exception of McCoy and Dambai which have technical issues to be resolved.

Additionally, the statement echoed that GTEC has migrated 20 institutions and aims to complete the process for all 46 colleges before the end of the month.

The Commission is currently in discussions with the Minister of Education, Dr. Osei Adutwum, regarding financial clearance to recruit approximately 2,500 teaching staff to alleviate the workload and facilitate the commencement of academic work while resolving CETAG’s remaining concerns.

Despite calls for closure, GTEC has not received any directives to shut down the colleges and has instructed them to remain open. 

CETAG, however, has stated that they will not end the strike until the government provides concrete evidence of implementing payments to its members, citing previous unfulfilled promises.

The strike, which began on June 14, was triggered by the government’s delay in implementing the National Labour Commission’s Arbitral Award Orders and negotiated service conditions.

CETAG’s demands include the payment of one month’s salary to each member for additional duties performed in 2022 and the application of agreed rates of allowances payable to public universities to deserving CETAG members