The ‘teacher motivation allowance’ levied on students as an incentive for teachers has been scrapped as illegal, government has announced.
The policy will not be charged from next academic year.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Francis Gbadago, told the media in Accra the motivation allowance is no more relevant.
“The purpose for which this teacher motivation fee was introduced has lost its value at the moment. Now we have teachers being paid a considerable amount of money as salary. We think that at this particular point in time, there is no need for teachers to paid teacher motivation anymore.”
“Our checks and research has revealed that indeed these basic schools are also charging teacher motivation across board and that is illegal. We think that it is time for the teachers of these schools to stop this collection of illegal fees before the law catches up with them.”
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
