Teacher Unions Behind One-Teacher, One-Laptop Initiative – NAPO
Former Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, says the decision to provide teachers with subsidized laptops was triggered by the main teacher unions.
From the onset, the Ghana Education Service has said it has been working closely with the unions as far as the initiative is concerned.
“GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT [Ghana National Association of Teachers, the National Association of Graduate Teachers and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers] came to my office with a letter saying they had spoken with teachers, and they are going to buy computers and have signed a contract to give 280,000 teachers laptops,” he said in an interview on Accra-based FM.
“They said they would be taking GH¢1,500. They asked that because of the new curriculum and teacher licensing, and teacher lesson notes, they needed laptops, so the government should help and pay some of the cost for the teachers.”