The government of Ghana has paid the November 2021 salaries of most public sector workers. Teachers’ professional allowance which was promised by the government to enable teachers to improve themselves professionally by attending workshops and seminars has been successfully paid.
Most teachers who have received their salaries from the bank have complained about the controversial deduction that has been taken place on their professional allowance. Some of them have complained about the continuous deduction of the NTC teacher license fee which was deducted in last year’s professional allowance and the laptop’s money which the majority of the teachers have not received theirs.
Due to this controversial deduction that has taken place on their professional allowance majority of them are calling for the government to stop paying them the allowance so that Ghanaians will know that they don’t have an allowance.
When the government was introducing the teacher professional allowance, the government made it clear that the money will enable teachers to organize professional learning communities in their various schools and also to attend workshops to improve their professional skills. Due to this allowance, the National Teaching Council NTC has laid in bed with some district Directors of Education to organize compulsory workshops for teachers which cost a single teacher not less than GH70 cedis and here are the case the Ghana Education Service and the various teacher unions are also doing all means to take away the professional allowance that teachers would have been using to offset the debit of this compulsory workshops.
Most teachers are of the view that the government should cancel the professional allowance so that they will also stop wasting money on compulsory workshops.
It looks as if all teachers are regretting the introduction of the professional allowance because it has become a name that teachers are taking allowance meanwhile they don’t get the exact amount for the purpose it was introduced. Teachers are rather using their salaries to attend these compulsory workshops organized by NTC.
