The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed teacher trainees across the country to start feeding themselves effective May 9, 2022.
This directive it said follows the inability of management of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them.
According to PRINCOF, food suppliers who had continued delivering supplies to these Colleges of Education for months without payment have finally withdrawn their services until they receive the monies owed them.
In a letter dated Tuesday, April 19, 2022, signed by the Executive Secretary of PRINCOF, Dr. Harriet Naki Amui and copied to the Ministry of Education, she said the teacher trainees must start funding their own feeding after May 8 until debt owned them are cleared.
“Most colleges now have food items that can last only one week if students are to be provided with three (3) meals a day”
“Trainees teachers will be provided with two meals, breakfast and supper only for one week, from April 23 to April 30, 2022. Trainee teachers from May 1 to May 8, 2022 shall be given lunch only” PRINCOF said in the letter.
To that end, “After May 8, trainee teachers would be asked to provide their own meals until their feeding allowances have been paid.”
Part of the letter therefore urged food vendors to henceforth increase the quantity of daily meals they cook for sale to students on various campuses.
To conclude, it said the measures are meant to ensure that there is no “disruption of the academic calendar.”
Find attached the full statement
