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Dr Ebenezer Ayesu former Head of the political and history section at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon says previous actions of the Mahama-led administration can make it difficult for Ghanaians to believe their intention and promises for Ghanaians in the Education sector.

"They (NDC) cancelled teacher trainee allowance; it's a fact . . . teachers asked for chalk and they were insulted . . . they disrespected teachers," he said in an interview on Neat FM's 'Me Man Nti'.




Meanwhile, the NDC has promised to partner the private sector to provide educational infrastructure in the form of housing, hostels, transportation, recreational facilities and access to educational technologies for teachers, support staff, administrators, students and pupils.

In their recently outdoored manifesto the NDC says:

- it will also improve the quality and relevance of service delivery, and education will be refocused on confidence-building, knowledge generation and acquisition, skills development for jobs as well as responsible citizenship.
The specific sub-sector policies are listed below.

- revisit and make functional the agenda of providing special incentives for teachers who accept postings to rural and deprived communities

- increase teachers' retention premium

- restore automatic employment of newly trained teachers

- fast track promotions and applications for academic progression

- open special credit lines to facilitate access to loans

- provide teachers with free tablets to facilitate teaching and learning

- restore the automatic employment of newly trained teachers to improve the teacher-student ratio

- collaborate with teacher unions to implement a special regime allowing teachers to own vehicles under affordable terms

- reinstate the payment of responsibility allowances to teachers.