The Technical University Teacher’s Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has ignored calls by the Ministry of Education as they continue to strike over unpaid allowances and demands for improved conditions of services.

The Education Ministry appealed to TUTAG after it declared the strike on Monday saying its members had been provided with every other necessary service.

According to the Association, the staff of the various technical universities are yet to receive the emoluments for university lecturers since the upgrading of eight polytechnics to universities.

The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Vincent Ekow Assafuah said the National Commission for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has been able to migrate all TUTAG members onto the university payroll and also place them on “appropriate salaries.”

“Again we have also paid their book and research allowances as the rate that the university lecturer is supposed to get. So the only outstanding challenge we have with TUTAG is some allowances that are supposed to be paid them and the delay is due to the fact that fair wages and salaries commission will have to determine the appropriate ways to pay them.”