Kofi Asare, the executive director of Africa Education Watch, says governments over the past years have not shown any commitment to resolving the grievances of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
Speaking to Beatrice Adu on the Big Bulletin on Wednesday (12 January), Asare said successive governments since 2008 have shown no urgency in addressing the demands of UTAG.
According to him, “there’s no urgency on the part of the government to resolve this matter. I am talking about the government in a generic sense. Since 2008, then 2012 when single spine finally took off, this matter (UTAG demands) has been hanging since 2008 before the roadmap was agreed upon.
“…every timeline that has been developed, the government of Ghana has not treated with attention or an effort that suggest that it is committed to ensuring that lecturers were not worse off. Even the agreement as part of the roadmap indicated that lecturers will be on a 1500 equivalent US dollars entry-level has not been carried out. So, I don’t see any real commitment by successive governments to solve this matter,” he stated.
UTAG has for some time now been demanding the implementation of a 2012 Single Spine package which put entry-level lecturers on a salary equivalent of US$2,084 while the current level puts lecturers’ salaries around US$900.
Nicholas Brown
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