Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has announced that government intends to phase off the teacher trainee allowance and replace it with an enhanced loan scheme.
This loan scheme is expected to ensure sustainable feeding of teacher trainees in colleges.
Speaking to leadership of the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education, the Minister explained that in the interim the allowances will continue as discussions are being held to transition to the loan scheme. "But off head there's no way to feed a student at the university so we will have to work out a transition from the allowance into an enhanced student loan to feed themselves but in the interim, they will still get the allowance. "I cannot conceive off a student in the higher education being fed off.
We can narrow it to basic, SHS so they will still get the enhanced student loan to feed themselves but in the interim, they will still get the allowances but we will transition to enhanced student loan," he stated.
