The Ministry of Education will meet the country’s teacher unions on Monday, September 28, in a fresh attempt to resolve a dispute over unpaid promotion arrears and other outstanding demands.
Press Secretary and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Hasmin Mohammed, disclosed this on Joy FM’s Midday News on Friday, September 25.
He said the Education Minister would engage the various stakeholders to resolve the dispute and prevent the strike from further disrupting the academic calendar.
“I’ve just had information from the Honourable Minister that we intend to meet them on Monday in order to continue to pursue them to call off the strike,” he said.
He said the Minister would use Monday’s meeting to provide a platform for the relevant institutions and the unions to engage directly.
The Ministry, he added, was “deeply worried” about the strike because of its potential impact on the academic calendar.
“It took the Honourable Minister and then that of the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service to be able to restore sanity into the academic calendar,” he said.
“For the first time, we are having our Ghanaian school children from KG to university all reporting in this September. So that tells you that we have been able to reverse the academic calendar.”
He warned that continued industrial action could undermine those gains, with students only recently returning to school.
According to him, the Ministry would do everything within its capacity to prevent further disruption to the academic calendar.
