The Ghana National Association of Teachers' struggle to appeal to the government to support teachers on distance education programme, has borne some fruit. A release from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, signed by Ms Elizabeth Ohene, Minister of State indicates that during this 2007/2008 academic year, every teacher who is a final year student at the Universities of Cape Coast and Winneba pursuing distance education programme is to be supported to the tune of three hundred Ghana cedis.

The release assures that, this is an on-going programme to cover other category of teachers. Currently, a total of four thousand, five hundred and sixty (4,560) final year students in the Universities of Cape Coast and Winneba are offering distance education programmes.