An Old Student of TASHS, Julius Akpeh honoured among CFA Charterholders

Julius Akpe, an old student of Tanyigbe Senior High School was honoured to be recognised among the 2021 CFA Charterholders at the Maiden Forecast Dinner organised by the CFA society Ghana at Accra City Hotel.

The CFA exams is globally considered as one of the most difficult finance exams and so passing it and obtaining the right to use the CFA designation is a prestige.

From his Facebook wall, he wrote, "I have always nursed the desire to educate and inform the public on key economic developments in the country that notably affect investor confidence, business growth and the economic wellbeing of the ordinary Ghanaian.

I will use this platform to achieve these objectives and also, from time to time, provide professional insights (not to be taken as investment advice) into the local and international financial markets and the implications for our economy."

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TASHS is proud of you.

Volta Region: Nation-Wide Payroll Auditing to begin September 4

The Nation-Wide Payroll and Personnel Verification Audit (NPPVA) shall be organised in the Volta Region commencing from 4th September to 14th September 2018. Enumeration centres will be created in every district capital to facilitate the exercise.

All staff on Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) in the Volta Region are thereby reminded  to visit their respective District Assemblies with the following documents:

• Biometric Registration Form
• SSNIT Biometric Card (Original Card)
• Payslip (Recent) 
• Appointment Letter (Original and Photocopy)
• Recent l Promotion or Upgrade Letter (Original and Photocopy)
• All Academic Certificates (Original and Photocopy)
• At Least two of the following National Identification Card: Voter’s ID, Passport, Driver’s License, NHIS
• Approved Study Leave with or without pay(Original and Photocopy of approval letter)
• Completed Bond Forms
• Gazette or Affidavit for change of name. (Original and Photocopy)
• Contract Renewal Letters for Pupil Teachers
• Any other relevant documents relating to your employment

For further clarification or any other matter relating to the exercise, please contact Mr. Frederick Mensah on Telephone number: 0244695613

Source :EducationGhana.net

Government released GH¢35.9M to Schools for 2nd Term Free SHS Education

The Ministry of Education has released Gh¢35.9 million to public second cycle schools under the Free Senior High School programme to cover initial operational and administrative costs for the second term of the 2017/2018 academic year.

Speaking to Citi News, the Head of Communications at the Free SHS Secretariat, Josberta Gyan Kwakye, said the amount would cover about 489 schools.

We have released such an amount to the various secondary schools and it covers about 489 schools… the Ghc35.9 million that has been sent to the schools currently, is to cover the initial administrative costs for the schools for the second term.”

She also explained that the initial 20 percent sent to the schools in September 2017 “was based on raw estimations because as of the time we were releasing the funds, we didn’t have the exact enrolment numbers so it was more of an approximation.”

She said the Ministry has also paid GH¢3,392,031 as arrears for 264 schools during the first term.

“After we had been able to confirm the enrolment numbers based on the signed list that the individual schools submitted to the secretariat, we have now come to the conclusion that about [264] schools had some arrears to be paid to cover for the first term,” Mrs. Gyan Kwakye said.

Prior payments

In September 2017, the government released for disbursement half of the GH¢ 486 million for the policy.
That amount was to serve the over 400,000 first-year students who benefited from the Free SHS policy this 2017/2018 academic year.

At the beginning of 2018, the government also released GHc62,606,403, in three instalment payments for the delivery of food items to Senior High Schools in the country to the National Food Buffer Stock Company.

In terms of other notable expenses under the policy, the government set aside an amount of GHc80 million to address challenges relating to furniture.

Budgetary allocation for Free SHS ‘woefully inadequate’ – Ablakwa

National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has described the government’s budgetary allocation for Free SHS as woefully inadequate to support the programme.

According to him, government would need at least two billion cedis to support Free SHS in 2018, 800 million cedis more than the amount that was allocated to it in the budget.

‘You can’t run education with voluntary funds’

The government announced that it would set up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation of the free SHS programme and the educational sector as a whole.

However, this plan has come under fire from the Minority who believe this is an indication that government does not have the funds to properly implement its much-touted programme.

And according to Okudzeto Ablakwa, the government cannot afford to rely on the voluntary funds as a source of funding for free SHS, as projections for those funds may not materialize.

Source: citifmonline.com

Newly Trained Teachers Bare Teeth @ Governemnt Over Removal From Payroll

Newly trained teachers are up in arms with government following the decision by the Finance Ministry to remove them from the government payroll immediately after completing college.

The Ministry recently directed the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to take the newly trained teachers off when they finish school until they are posted to their various stations.

However, the group calling itself Concerned Newly Trained Teachers say, the “newly trained teacher had already been employed by the GES even before he/she completes college”.

A statement signed by National Convener, Emmanuel Gakpo, questioned: “Should the government take away the small allowance which is supposed to cushion us, how do we cope with expenditure such as rent, utilities, feeding, transportation, etc; especially at this time when prices are increasing every day?”

“It becomes very sad that a government that proclaims its social democratic ideologies will even consider taking newly trained teachers off payroll at a time they are engaged and should even be paid their salaries”.

Below is the full statement issued by the Concerned Newly Trained Teachers:

PRESS RELEASE BY CONCERNED NEWLY TRAINED TEACHERS ON THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY TO TAKE NEWLY TRAINED TEACHERS OFF PAYROLL IMMEDIATELY AFTER COMPLETING COLLEGE

PREAMBLE

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those were Thomas Jefferson’s words in the popular speech “Declaration of Independence.”

It is only prudent for every human government to organize its activities and policies in respect of those truths.

We entrusted our powers to the government to ensure that we, the people of Ghana, have our happiness safeguarded. It’s rather interesting to note that the government is bent on implementing policies that kill the Ghanaian at the Cheetah’s pace; and those that grow us at a Snail’s pace.

The government implements such policies without the consent of those who are mostly affected. What a tyranny.

One of such policies is the removal of allowances of newly trained teachers soon after completing college.

The fact remains that, The Teacher Trainee had signed an agreement to remain teaching for at least five years, which assured him entitlement to allowance till he becomes a teacher and is fully placed on salary. This implies that, the allowances of teacher trainees are not as free as opponents may wish to see it.

Source: www.myjoyonline.com