Loan Trust Fund ready for trainee teachers

The Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) has declared its readiness to cater for teacher trainees who will access its loans beginning from the 2013-2014 academic year.

Already, the fund is catering for over 20,000 students, made up of continuing students in public and private tertiary institutions and the polytechnics.

The Head of Operations of the SLTF, Mr Kofi Abbew Nkrumah, who made this known to the Daily Graphic yesterday, said the trust fund began putting its house in order following the directive from the government that students in the colleges of education should benefit from its loans.

Accordingly, he said, the SLTF, on August 7, 2013, met with the rectors of the colleges of education, at which it introduced its modalities and how the trainees could join the scheme.

“Our understanding is that the new beneficiaries will be students entering the colleges of education in the 2013-2