{"id":3079,"date":"2024-08-21T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:06:08","slug":"teacher-trainees-petition-for-extended-academic-calendar-following-cetag-strike-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Teacher trainees petition for extended academic calendar following CETAG strike suspension&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Colleges-of-Education-696x363-1-Copy-696x363-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Colleges-of-Education-696x363-1-Copy-696x363-1.jpg 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Colleges-of-Education-696x363-1-Copy-696x363-1-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Teacher trainees are calling for an extension of the academic calendar after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/?s=CETAG+\">Colleges of Education Teachers Association Ghana<\/a>&nbsp;(CETAG) called off its two-month-old strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CETAG called off its strike on Tuesday after reaching an agreement with the government in a meeting with the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Pension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this decision, CETAG has cautioned that if the government fails to follow through on the agreed-upon road map, the association will resume the strike by the end of October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, academic activities are yet to resume on campuses across the country as many students who left for their homes also yet to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the trainees believe an extension of the calendar will help to make up for the lost time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strike, which began on June 14, was initiated due to the government\u2019s failure to implement agreed arbitral awards and improve working conditions for CETAG members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Teacher trainees are calling for an extension of the academic calendar after the&nbsp;Colleges of Education Teachers Association Ghana&nbsp;(CETAG) called off its two-month-old strike. CETAG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}