Teacher trainees turn prostitutes over scrapped allowances

sQuashie 16:44 - 14 May 2015

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The students have threatened to embark on nationwide strike if the allowance policy is not reinstated within a week by government.

About 40% of teacher trainer level 100 female students have been forced to become prostitute as means of paying their exorbitant schools fees.

Daniel Osei Kofi, President of the Teacher Trainees Association said the government of government to replace the teacher trainee allowance with student will cause loss to the nation as most of the students cannot afford to pay their school fees and other educational materials without government support.

He added that the students have vowed not to return if they needs are not resolved by government immediately.

Meanwhile, teacher trainees have declared a nationwide indefinite strike action over Government's insistence to withdraw their allowance. Read more