The St. Francis College of Education’s teacher candidates have announced that they would boycott their end-of-semester examinations planned for today, December 5, 2022, owing to the lecturers’ ongoing strike.
The trainees claim that since they haven’t had any contact time because of the upcoming strike, they are emotionally unprepared to take any tests.
The previous three weeks have seen a walkout by lecturers at various institutes of education around the nation for unpaid allowances.
The University of Cape Coast’s examination board was urged to reverse its decision to move the tests to next year in a statement to Citi News by the level 200 and 300 trainees on campus.
“In fact, other universities, Winneba, UDS, have suspended their examination because of what is happening, and it’s only UCC that is forcing us to write exams, and we think this is not fair, we are not waiting for this exam until our lecturers are back in the classroom to complete our syllabus.”
University labor unions have been on strike for more than three weeks because, in their opinion, the government has failed to uphold the agreed-upon terms of employment.
The union had raised concerns about the adjusted ex-pump rate of GH¢10.99 being implemented to affect Vehicle Maintenance and Off-Campus Allowances.