The Volta Region Branch of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has appealed to the government to increase allowances of teacher trainees following the 17 per cent hike in public sector workers' salaries.
In a communiqu� adopted at the end of their 19th Annual General Assembly and Leadership seminar at Dambai College of Education, they said the promise to adjust trainees' allowances after the salary increase had not been fulfilled.
The trainees urged the GET-Fund to give attention to colleges of education in the Volta Region to improve upon their infrastructure.
They appealed to the government to provide computers to all colleges in the sector for trainees to be abreast with the practical skills in ICT to effectively handle the subject after the training.
"Trainees in the region are appealing to the Government of Ghana and our legislators to expedite work on passing the bill that would authenticate the tertiary status of colleges. "
They appealed to the Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast, to reconsider its decision of having only one centre for the writing of referred papers, saying the region could have a centre each at Dambai for the northern sector, St. Francis College for the central sector and Akatsi College for the southern sector.
The Institute should also reconsider the timing of the release of results to enable students to prepare adequately for referred papers while the time-table for the re-sit examinations should be released at the beginning of the semester.
They suggested that the Institute should also review the frequency of the increase of examination fees and that it should be done every two years instead of every year.
The trainees called for the completion of buildings in several colleges in the region for academic work to go on smoothly.
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