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Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Technical University Teachers Call off Strike Today
Technical University Teachers Call off Strike Today
The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), is calling off Strike hopefully today 25 September 2018.The association will be having a last meeting today to make an agreement with the Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah and the Government as a whole.
Genesis
Dr Zubairu explained that the grievance of (TUTAG) gone down to a lack of a scheme of service, in conformity with the status of some technical institutions which were changed to universities in 2016.
Previously, lecturers were on conditions of service linked to the Technical Colleges Act, but the change brought about a new statute that also had to bring about new schemes of service.
Dr Zubairu said a post-conversion staff audit and schemes of services were some of the changes that had to be initiated by the government, agreed to by the governing boards of the technical universities and passed for lecturers to be clear about their work and benefits.
However, since 2006, even before the conversion of the colleges into universities, the government had not been straightforward with technical college lecturers in ensuring that the right things were done.
Dr Zubairu explained that the grievance of (TUTAG) gone down to a lack of a scheme of service, in conformity with the status of some technical institutions which were changed to universities in 2016.
Previously, lecturers were on conditions of service linked to the Technical Colleges Act, but the change brought about a new statute that also had to bring about new schemes of service.
Dr Zubairu said a post-conversion staff audit and schemes of services were some of the changes that had to be initiated by the government, agreed to by the governing boards of the technical universities and passed for lecturers to be clear about their work and benefits.
However, since 2006, even before the conversion of the colleges into universities, the government had not been straightforward with technical college lecturers in ensuring that the right things were done.
But "hopefully Strike will be called off today".
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
6 Benefits of Internet Marketing
Through regular, affordable customized communication, you can build relationships with prospects and clients with Internet marketing. This serves as a stark contrast to the days of mass marketing, a tactic that is slowly going extinct. Still not convinced that Internet marketing is the direction your company should go in? Then, let the six benefits of Internet marketing listed below help change your mind.
1. Internet Marketing Is Inexpensive
Marketing products through a physical retail outlet is much more expensive than marketing them on the Internet. The recurring costs of property maintenance and rental are not relevant to Internet marketing. Plus, for display in the store, you do not need to fill your shelves and windows with stock. Consequently, you can keep you inventory costs low by ordering stock in line with demand, instead of ordering it in anticipation of demand.
2. Internet Marketing Allows for Convenient Store Hours
Without having to worry about overtime payments to workers or opening hours, Internet marketing gives you the freedom to keep your enterprise open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Clients will also find it incredibly convenient to shop for your services and products on the Internet on their own schedule. When it is convenient for them, they can browse your ecommerce store at any time of day and place orders.
3. Internet Marketing Provides a Customized Advertising Approach
By building a profile of your customers’ preferences and buying history, Internet marketing enables you to personalize offers for them. You can make targeted offers that are a true reflection of their interests by tracking the product information and webpages that potential customers visit. Also, to help you increase the value of sales by consumers, you can get data for planning cross selling campaigns with the information available from tracking webpage visits.
4. Internet Marketing Helps You Take Advantage of Social Media
Social media is growing in importance every day. Internet marketing allows you to leverage this. The link between online revenue growth and social networking was highlighted in a recent study by the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education area.
The study found that there were increased sales of about five percent generated by those consumers who reported that they were most strongly influenced by social networks. By incorporating social media tools in your Internet marketing campaigns, you can take advantage of this type of influence and watch your profits soar.
5. Internet Marketing Provides a Way to Really Build Relationships
When it comes to increasing client retention levels and building relationships with consumers, the Internet is a crucial platform. By sending a follow up email to thank the consumer and confirm a transaction, you can start the relationship out on the right foot when they make a purchase from your online store.
You can help to maintain the relationship and provide a personal touch by emailing clients regularly with special offers that are customized for them. You can also help build a sense of community on your website by inviting these customers to submit product reviews for the items they bought.
6. Internet Marketing Allows You to Reach More People
You can overcome all barriers of distance by using marketing on the Internet. Without setting up local stores, you can sell products in any part of the nation, or even beyond. This widens your target market significantly. Plus, without opening a network of distributors in various countries, you can build an export company.
To make certain your products and services comply with local business regulations and are suitable for the local markets, you should enlist the help of localization services if you plan on selling internationally or even in some remote locales nationally. Localization services include product modifications to reflect local market differences and translation services.
By now, you can plainly see that an expertly crafted Internet marketing campaign can open up a whole new world of opportunities for your business. You may be tempted to jump right in. However, it is important that you take the time to create a plan and coordinate all of your online marketing efforts. Otherwise, you will likely cause confusion among consumers. And, these days, the typical web savvy consumer can spot a company with a disorganized online presence from a mile away.
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Have you ever wondered how "Google" is able to answer almost every question you ask?
Google just collect information from the website that best match the intent of the search query and display to you.
It is like you are in a big library where millions of the books available that covers every information available on the planet.
Now if someone ask a question to you what you will do? You would find the book that is about the topic of question, go to the relevant chapter and than the page that has answer.
Google does the same thing but faster,
Google has its data center where it keep a copy of almost(but not all)every page of every websites and google update these cached pages regularly. To find the web-pages Google has programs called spiders or crawlers that read the page content, images and links on the pages.
Whenever you search anything on Google, Google finds the relevant pages to that query and and display on Search result, The order of result is calculated by an secret algorithm.
Friday, 23 March 2018
'Failed' SHS leavers better teachers than 'wicked' trained ones – Adei
General News of Friday, 23 March 2018
Source: classfmonline.com
Former Rector of the GIMPA, Prof Stephen Adei
Failed secondary school leavers are far better
teachers than their trained counterparts who have formed a cabal with
headteachers and destroying the education of Ghanaian children in public
basic schools, former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof Stephen Adei has argued.
The Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Ashesi University College said trained teachers, who are better-paid than their untrained colleagues, do not prepare their lesson notes and also fail to teach pupils during school hours, thus, destroying the future of the nation.
Such behaviour, according to him, is “wicked”. “The teachers in the basic schools, wickedly, and I’m using my words well, have refused to teach”.
“That is why I believe that today if you sack all the public teachers in the basic school, there will not be a deterioration in education, and if anybody dares it, they should challenge me and I will show that secondary school failures can do a better job than them,” Prof Adei said while speaking on the topic ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’.
He said after three years, and with the lowest qualifications in secondary school, they go to training colleges and when they finish, they are paid more than graduate secondary school teachers, adding that “most of them take their children to private poor schools where the teachers have never gone to any training college, they are secondary school failures and yet they deliver better quality education than our trained teachers”.
In Prof Adei’s view, the situation can be salvaged by sacking all trained teachers in public basic schools. Subsequent to that radical move, he said the headteachers must be given the freehand by government to hire and fire teachers based on merit, and, “within six months, despite all the listed argument, you will see a total transformation”.
At the same forum, however, the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, David Ofori Acheampong, parried the damning verdict by Prof Adei and questioned the scientific basis for his conclusions, adding that: “We are running away from the basic facts of the case”.
According to Mr Ofori Acheampong, supervisors of the Ghana Education Service who fail to do their job, should be held responsible for the problems plaguing teaching and learning at public basic schools.
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The Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Ashesi University College said trained teachers, who are better-paid than their untrained colleagues, do not prepare their lesson notes and also fail to teach pupils during school hours, thus, destroying the future of the nation.
Such behaviour, according to him, is “wicked”. “The teachers in the basic schools, wickedly, and I’m using my words well, have refused to teach”.
“That is why I believe that today if you sack all the public teachers in the basic school, there will not be a deterioration in education, and if anybody dares it, they should challenge me and I will show that secondary school failures can do a better job than them,” Prof Adei said while speaking on the topic ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’.
He said after three years, and with the lowest qualifications in secondary school, they go to training colleges and when they finish, they are paid more than graduate secondary school teachers, adding that “most of them take their children to private poor schools where the teachers have never gone to any training college, they are secondary school failures and yet they deliver better quality education than our trained teachers”.
In Prof Adei’s view, the situation can be salvaged by sacking all trained teachers in public basic schools. Subsequent to that radical move, he said the headteachers must be given the freehand by government to hire and fire teachers based on merit, and, “within six months, despite all the listed argument, you will see a total transformation”.
At the same forum, however, the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, David Ofori Acheampong, parried the damning verdict by Prof Adei and questioned the scientific basis for his conclusions, adding that: “We are running away from the basic facts of the case”.
According to Mr Ofori Acheampong, supervisors of the Ghana Education Service who fail to do their job, should be held responsible for the problems plaguing teaching and learning at public basic schools.
Sunday, 18 March 2018
GES urged to hold a licensing examination for teachers before postings
Source: Ghana|myjoyonline.com
Date: 18-03-2018 Time: 09:03:21:am
Friday, 2 March 2018
Ho TUTAG joins strike over 'nuisance' amendments
Source: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com
Date: 02-03-2018 Time: 01:03:50:pm
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