{"id":17755,"date":"2024-04-02T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2024-04-02T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:16:44","slug":"education-minister-questions-gtus-salary-increase-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/education-minister-questions-gtus-salary-increase-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister Questions GTU&#8217;s Salary Increase Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Saskia Warrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has raised concerns about the salary increase proposal put forth by the Guyana Teachers&#8217; Union (GTU), emphasizing that while the welfare of teachers is a priority for the government, certain demands from the union appear unreasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister highlighted that while the Ministry maintains a healthy relationship with the GTU, it questioned the proposed salary increases and the timeframe over which they were requested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GTU sought a 20% increase from 2019 to 2023, a demand that was declined during discussions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Manickchand pointed out that schools were closed from 2020 to April 2022 due to the pandemic, yet the government continued to pay teachers during this period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, she mentioned that the Ministry has been meeting with the union monthly, implementing some of their proposals and introducing various interventions to benefit teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other updates, Minister Manickchand announced that preparations for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) are well underway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mock exams are scheduled to commence to assess any gaps or challenges that may need to be addressed, considering the prolonged absence of students from classrooms due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mock examinations for English and Science for Grades 1 and 2 will take place on Thursday, while exams for Science and Mathematics are set for Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This update reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to addressing the needs of teachers while also ensuring the effective implementation of educational assessments and programs for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has raised concerns about the salary increase proposal put forth by the Guyana Teachers&#8217; Union (GTU), emphasizing that while the welfare of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17756,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions\/17756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}