The Gambia Teachers’ Union on Wednesday October 5, 2022, joins the rest of the world to observe World Teachers Day. The day set aside by
The Gambia Teachers’ Union recently trains Thirty-One Education Students of the University of The Gambia on service rule. The training focuses on providing the teachers
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
The Gambia Teachers Union has organized a School Representatives training for another cohort of SRs in the Central River Region town of Janjanbureh. The training is part of a series of regional trainings rolled out by the union for its representatives in schools. These training are expected to serve as an induction for the representatives …
Continuing on the training on the making of reusable sanitary pads, the Gambia Teachers’ Union, has organized a training for girls in Armitage Senior Secondary School in Janjanbureh. The training funded by the #SteveSinnottFoundation is meant to empower the girls in the making of reusable pads. This is expected to address girls’ access to pads …
The Gambia Teachers’ Union receives a donation of Twenty-Two bicycles from the Steve Sinnott Foundation earmarked for school-going children in the rural Gambia. The Steve Sinnott Foundation is a long-term partner of The Gambia Teachers’ Union. Over the years and recently, they have funded a series of programs geared towards improving the status of education …
Barely a month after conducting a training for Sixty Home Science Teachers in Region 2 on the making of reusable pads, the Gambia Teachers’ Union has organized a similar training for Thirty Home Science Teachers in Region 1. The training held at the GTU Secretariat in Kanifing is meant to equip the teachers with the …
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Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof the General Manager of the Gambia Teachers Union Cooperative Credit Union, has recently received an international award. The award that recognizes his contribution to credit union development on the continent was given to him in Kenya during a convergence of leaders of credit unions across the globe. Baboucarr Joof has an expansive …
In a bid to strengthen the capacity of its School Representatives to effectively discharge their functions, the Gambia Teachers’ Union has rolled out training programmes for SRs across the country. The pieces of training that started weeks ago in the Central River Region has now reached the Lower River Region. From the 4th-7th November 2021, …
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