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
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
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 …
The Gambia Teachers Union through support from the Steve Sinnott Foundation recently donated bicycles to needy students in rural Gambia. The donation is part of the Union’s commitment to the children education. Handing over the donated bicycles to the beneficiaries on behalf the Union, Deputy General Secretary Essa Sowe outlined the numerous mechanism the Union …
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 …
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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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 …