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Songtaba train girls on sexual abuse
About 60 girls from some selected districts in the Northern Region are attending a five-day Girls Camp in Tamale under the auspices of Songtaba, a Non-Governmental Organization in partnership with Plan...
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NSS launches nationwide capacity building workshop
The Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Dr. Gifty Oware-Aboagye, on Wednesday launched a 2-day Capacity Building Workshop for prospective service personnel. The nationwide...
View ArticleMore teachers trained to read, write local languages
Two hundred and eighty teachers in the Dormaa Central Municipality are currently undergoing training in reading and writing of eleven local languages. It is to equip the teachers with the skills to be...
View ArticleW/R: We need more top high schools – Chief
President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, Ogyeahoho Yaw Gyebi II has bemoaned the state of senior high school education in the Western Region. Nana Gyebi said it was an indictment for region...
View ArticleTeachers who fail license exam to re-write
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that teachers who fail the licensing exam will be given another opportunity to write again. The National Teachers Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education...
View ArticleConvert Wa, Bolga Polytechnics to prevent collapse – Group
The Technical University Workers Association of Ghana TUWAG wants government to speed up the processes of converting Wa and Bolga Polytechnics into Technical Universities. The conversion, it believes,...
View ArticleTechnical university teachers issue ultimatum over Governing Councils
Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has given the government a one-week ultimatum to establish governing councils for the technical universities in the country else they would...
View ArticleImproved public schools in Rwanda see private academies close down
Private schools in Rwanda face an uncertain future amid dwindling admissions as learners increasingly enroll in public schools. Desperate proprietors who face closure of their institutions are now...
View ArticleGIJ graduates second batch of Masters of Arts students
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, has expressed concern about the paucity of research data for development planning in many African countries including Ghana....
View ArticleProvisional 2017 BECE results released, 1,298 cited for cheating
The provisional results for the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) have been released by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). 1,298 candidates will, however, have to wait longer for...
View ArticleReduce JHS subjects to 6 — Education directors
The Conference of Directors of Education (CODE) has advocated the reduction of the number of subjects studied at the various levels of basic education. It suggested that while pupils in the...
View ArticleWAEC withholds 1,298 BECE results
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld 1,298 subject results of some candidates who sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The affected candidates were...
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Shake-up in GES; 16 directors reassigned
The Ghana Education Service has reassigned 16 of regional and divisional directors of the service across the country. Only two regions; Eastern and Northern, were not affected in the shake up which...
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Make university education free too – Ivor Greenstreet to Gov’t
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) 2016 Presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Green Street has lauded government’s commitment to implement the much touted “Free SHS” program in September but wants it...
View ArticleNPP’s Free SHS policy is impossible – Spio Garbrah
A former education minister under the Rawlings regime, Dr. Spio Garbrah mocked the government’s much touted “Free SHS policy” arguing that it is not achievable. “There can never be free education...
View ArticleBunkpurugu BECE candidates to get SHS admission despite outstanding papers
About 200 BECE candidates who were unable to write the English and Religious and Moral Education papers during this year’s examination period will be placed in various Senior High Schools to further...
View ArticleRegistration for 2017 national service persons extended
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has extended the period of registration for service personnel to Thursday, August 31, 2017. It said the extension is to enable service personnel who have not been able...
View ArticleWe’re not afraid of license exams – GNAT
Mr David Ofori Acheampong, the General Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers has stated that their members are ready for any exams for licensing. “We are not against exams, but we want...
View ArticleScholarship students in Cuba decry govt’s neglect
Ghanaian students on government scholarship in Cuba have expressed their displeasure over challenges they are made to go through in that country due to a seeming abandonment by the government of Ghana....
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Neglected scholarship beneficiaries take to social media for help
Struggling Ghanaian students on Ghana Education Trust Fund scholarships abroad have given themselves a much bigger voice by utilising two of the world’s most popular social media platforms, Twitter and...
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