Veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt has urged the Minister of Education to exercise patience and avoid making premature policy statements on teacher training allowances and feeding schemes for tertiary students.
Speaking on Metro TV's Good Morning Ghana monitored by MyNewsGH, Pratt raised concerns about the government's approach to education reforms, arguing that key stakeholders had not yet been consulted. "Government has announced plans for a stakeholder brainstorming session to determine the future of allowances, yet the minister is already making policy pronouncements.
What is the value of the stakeholder meeting if decisions are being made before it even happens?" he questioned.
He also highlighted the potential chaos that could arise if feeding allowances were abolished, particularly in universities with large student populations. "Look at Legon; it has about 40,000 students.
