The Ghana Association of Teachers (GNAT) has earmarked the 50th anniversary of the Ghana Education Service (GES) with a national delegate conference in Accra to acknowledge, celebrate educational advancement and produce new programmes that first concerns teacher well- being and career advancements.
The ceremony was a casting back of GES’s half century of service to Ghana’s educational sector and affirmed GNAT’s important role in contributing to providing high quality education mainly through support for, training and wellbeing interventions for teachers all over the country. GNAT has initiated varieties of measures with the aim of improving the wellbeing of professional development, and health care of its members.
These comprises means of entry to free cancer treatment, new training schemes, and advancements in active and functioning financial support programmes for teachers all over the country. GNAT also restated its firm dedication to advancing the conditions of service for teachers, especially those in need and rural areas.
Christian Yaw Adinkra, The Chairman of GNAT, Madina Adenta Abokobi District, who revealed this at the GES@50 Delegates Conference held in Accra, said the association had reach the Sweden Ghana Medical Centre (SGMC) to deliver free medical treatment for teachers, their married partners and two children under the age of 18.
The service, he said, was also obtainable to teachers who pensioned from 2022 ahead, with a contribution of just GH¢5. He said the union are still dedicated to helping teachers in monetary aspects and job related, adding that the Teachers’ Fund keeps on to give personal, vehicle and housing loans to enhance and improve the standard of living of the teachers.
Mr Adinkra stated that, the GNAT Provident Fund had been initiated to decrease the tax load on teachers who have demoted themselves to deliver quality education while the GNAT Institute for Industrial Relations had been established to offer extra training and enhancement. He said wellbeing policies such as the GNAT Heritage Cashback Plan and the “My Life” insurance scheme were made to help teachers when they are facing difficulties.
He said, concerning discipline, he showed his worry over what he polished it as a reduction in student attitudes, criticising part of its cause to be the immoderate highlights on children’s rights at the cost of teachers’s leadership control. He added “We must correct our children when they go wrong with love. When educators are limited from imposing discipline, society faces some difficulties”.
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