As we observe IYD 2022, we must also challenge Government to prioritize the development of young people in the teaching profession. This should include but not be limited to providing scholarships for them to develop themselves academically, reviewing policies to ensure deserving young teachers are promoted to different cadres in the Establishment as well as improving their socioeconomic welfare through incentives and allowances that commensurate the very challenging conditions they perform their duties.
The Gambia Teachers’ Union-GTU is on a three-day Summer Professional Development Training for Forty young teacher leaders is at the Regional Education Directorate 6. The
The Gambia Teachers’ Union, through support from the Steve Sinnott Foundation, has begun a two-day training on Gender-Based Violence for twenty Special Needs teachers from
GTU TRAINS EDUSA ON SANITARY PAD MAKING As campaigns for increasing awareness on mensural hygiene intensify, The Gambia Teachers’ Union on Friday 24th June 2022
GTU CONDUCTS PROJECT END-LINE INTERFACE The Gambia Teachers Union conducted a three day (15-17 June 2022) project end-line interface at the Kiang Central Village of
The Gambia Trade Union Bureau in partnership with the OTUWA Solidarity Centre and The Gambia Teachers’ Union held a sensitization meeting on promoting occupational health
The Gambia Teachers’ Union has began a three day training for 40 young school administrators in the Central River Region. The training being held at the Regional Education Directorate Five-South is funded by the Canadian Teacher Federation-CTF/FCE. The training dubbed Summer Professional Development Workshop for Young Head Teachers is aimed at capacitating the school administrators …
The Gambia Teachers’ Union through support of the Canadian Teacher Federation-CTF organized a three-day training for young head teachers in the Central River Region. The training dubbed Summer Professional Development Workshop for Young Head Teachers, attracted forty participants from CRR-South and CRR-North. According to the General Secretary of GTU Marie Antoinette Corr, the support to …
“Twenty-five years of existence, twenty-five years of trial and error, trial and error because when GTU decided in 1992 through a resolution to form a cooperative for its members, little did we know that the pioneers had a vision that we will at some point be able to do this for ourselves. This is important. This is significant,” GM Joof stated.