Ministry of Education Breaks Silence on Alleged Deduction of Professional Development Allowance

HonestySeptember 11, 2022

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The office of the Ministry of Education (MOE) through a press statement wishes to inform the general public especially teachers to disregard any alleged deduction of teachers professional development allowance.

According to the Minority, it has sighted a false and malicious story circulating on social media that deductions will be made from PDA of teachers.

The Ministry through the statement released has stated clearly that no such arrangements have been made, hence teachers should consider such story as falsehood.

Read The Full Statement Below

“The attention of the Ministry of Education has been drawn to the circulation of a false and malicious news story on social media alleging that deductions would be made from the Professional Development Allowance (PDA) of teachers, for the purpose of purchasing Modems and Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) for them”.

“The Ministry wishes to state that no such arrangements have been made, and as such these publications should be disregarded”.

“It must be noted that teachers remain pivotal in the promotion and development of education in Ghana and are key to the transformation agenda being executed by the Government”.

“Again it is worth to note that the Ministry remains committed to paying the allowance to enable teachers build their professional capabilities”.