The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Director of Education, Nana Kofi Adjei Imbeah, has appealed to the Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU) to look into the issue of indiscipline in the society and at the workplace.
Addressing the 10th quadrennial delegates conference of the Western Regional branch of TEWU, at TakoradI, on the theme; “Sustaining educational challenges, the role of TEWU as a stakeholder", he said the ethics of the teaching profession abhorred some indisciplinary acts which the members continue to display impunity.
Mr Imbeah mentioned absenteeism, lateness to work, malingering, excessive drinking and insubordination as a few of the indiscipline acts.
He was regretful that “when such unacceptable behaviour receives reprimand, the affected personnel see otherwise, and fall on TEWU, GNAT or NAGRAT to bail them out”.
On the issue of materialism, Mr Imbeah reiterated that the quest for material gains had eroded social values and ethics to the extent that some personnel go to the extent of using their offices as a cloak for extortion, and remarked that such acts did not only dampen morale, but also bred frustration, and in essence affected the impact of quality of education delivery.
The national chairman of TEWU, Mr. Peter Lumor, made the conference aware that the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission had introduced a new system of negotiating salaries and conditions of service, with many negotiations now becoming centralised.
Addressing the 10th quadrennial delegates conference of the Western Regional branch of TEWU, at TakoradI, on the theme; “Sustaining educational challenges, the role of TEWU as a stakeholder", he said the ethics of the teaching profession abhorred some indisciplinary acts which the members continue to display impunity.
Mr Imbeah mentioned absenteeism, lateness to work, malingering, excessive drinking and insubordination as a few of the indiscipline acts.
He was regretful that “when such unacceptable behaviour receives reprimand, the affected personnel see otherwise, and fall on TEWU, GNAT or NAGRAT to bail them out”.
On the issue of materialism, Mr Imbeah reiterated that the quest for material gains had eroded social values and ethics to the extent that some personnel go to the extent of using their offices as a cloak for extortion, and remarked that such acts did not only dampen morale, but also bred frustration, and in essence affected the impact of quality of education delivery.
The national chairman of TEWU, Mr. Peter Lumor, made the conference aware that the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission had introduced a new system of negotiating salaries and conditions of service, with many negotiations now becoming centralised.
