Government’s Plan To Deduct 10% Of Teachers’ Salaries As Rent Strongly Opposed by NAGRAT 

The government’s notice to preceptors living in state bungalows that 10 of their hires will be subtracted to pay rent is being opposed by the National Association of Graduate Teachers ( NAGRAT).

The Ghana Education Service (GES) explained in a notice issued over the weekend that the 10 that will be subtracted is part of the government’s sweats to streamline anomalies with rent payment for preceptors and staff at the elderly high academy living in bungalows.

The GES notice cited a May 2006 indirect released by the Ministry of Finance which first blazoned that inhabitants of government bungalows are anticipated to pay 10 of their payment as rent.

But in a sharp disproof, the President of the National Association of Graduate Preceptors (NAGRAT), Angel Carbornu, has said the move is asleep.

Mr Carbornu has told the government that the preceptors are formerly earning veritably stingy hires so the deduction will be illegal.

“The mistake we make here is that the accommodation condition rates are not the same and equal across the country. 

But when it comes to teachers specifically, we need to look at the details and understand the peculiarity of our job and look at the reasons teachers should not be charged for occupying the government bungalows,” he told Citi News.

He argued further that preceptors living in bungalows in the seminaries are performing schoolteacher duties.

It’s these same preceptors who take sick scholars to sanitarium and return to classrooms to educate, he argued further.

“…the house duties they perform are for free, so why do you ask them to pay for accommodation when they are offering these services for free?” Mr Carbornu quizzed.