The Acting Director General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, has raised alarm over the strike by the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG).

He warned that the strike is having a negative impact on the country’s tertiary education system.

Since June 14, CETAG members across all 46 Colleges of Education have been on strike, demanding the government address their arbitral award and conditions of service. This action has caused students to vacate their campuses.

“This continual strike by CETAG does not augur well for the educational tertiary architecture that we hope for,” Prof Abdulai said in an interview on Channel One TV.

The Acting Director General of GTEC urged CETAG to reconsider their strike action, stressing that it harms the reputation of the institutions involved.

“I will plead with them that look we cannot continue to bastardise our institutions in this manner of continual perennial strikes because the more you go on strike the more you make your institutions unattractive,” he stated.