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
As part of implementing activities to encourage the making and usage of reusable sanitary pads, the Gambia Teachers Union conducted training on the making of reusable sanitary pads for Mother Clubs in Batakunko and Marakisa in the West Coast Region. The training funded by the Steve Sinnott Foundation is meant to enhance the knowledge of …
GTU TRAINS TEACHERS ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH The Gambia Teachers’ Union through support from from the Education and Solidarity Network has organized a four day Occupational Health training for close to One Hundred teachers in Regions 1 and 4. The training that kick-started on the 8th-12th February 2022 at the Christians’ Council in Kanifing and the …
The leadership of the 12th Executive Council of the Education Students’ Association-EDUSA UTG, today 18th January 2022, paid a courtesy visit to the Gambia Teachers’ Union at the union’s secretariat in Kanifing. The visit, according to officials of the association, is in honor of the longstanding relationship between the two institutions. During engagements with officials …
As we approach the conduct of the presidential elections on Saturday 4thDecember 2021, The Gambia Teachers’ Union hereby urges all teachersand students to participate in this national duty. However, you are all urgedto exercise your civic right in tranquility and peace. We must all rememberthat we owe it to our country and posterity to ensure …
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 …
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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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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The National Executive Committee of the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) wishes to congratulate the entire teaching fraternity in commemoration of World Teachers Day. World Teachers Day (WTD) held annually on 5th October, is an important event for the entire educational community to celebrate the teaching profession and to promote the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status …
The Gambia Teachers’ Union today, 17th August 2021 convened a session for 12 mentors under its ‘Mobile Technology: Mentoring and Professional Learning Communities for Women Teachers in The Gambia’. The convergence held at Mansakonko, LRR, was meant to abreast the participants on key components of the project as well as on issues surrounding Gender-Based Violence. …