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
In the cabinet reshuffle as announced over the national Broadcaster-GRTS, the GTU learned of the appointment of the General Manager of GTUCCU, Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, as Minister for Public Service, Administrative Reform, Policy Coordination, and Delivery. The National Executive Committee of the Union wishes to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. B.O Joof on his …
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 Gambia Teachers’ Union has gathered teachers from selected schools on a day workshop on a forthcoming competition on human rights dubbed “Creating a Change: The World I want to Live In”. ‘The World I Want to Live In’ is a competition launched by the Steve Sinnott Foundation, the Gambia Teachers’ Union, and the National …
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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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