EDUCATION

The University of Ghana has been ranked Ghana’s topmost university for the year 2022, and ranked 1,124th in the world ranks. The ranking which was done by Webometrics.com is aimed at promoting web publication and their primary target is to support Open Access initiatives, electronic access to scientific publications and …

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has urged universities that are charging unlawful tuition to reverse their decision and adhere to the 15% threshold. University of Ghana (UG), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Mines and Technology (UMAT), University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of …

The University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) has expressed displeasure with the increment in the fees of public universities for the 2022/2023 academic year. USAG has bemoaned students cannot adequately prepare to meet up with the new fees, considering the few weeks they have to resume academic activities. Parliament recently …

Registration for trained teachers to be enrolled for the mandatory one-year national service begins today, Tuesday, 20 December 2022. This was announced by the National Service Scheme (NSS) when it released PIN codes for trained teachers to be enrolled for the mandatory 1-year national service. A total of 28,976 PIN …

The Ghana Education Service has delayed the vacation of all public basic schools across the country to enable primary four pupils to write National Standardised Test. The said National Standardised Test is scheduled to be written on Friday, 16th December 2022, which delays the vacation by one day. The basic …

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU) and the two other university worker unions that declared a strike on Monday, October 17, 2022, have resolved to call off the strike after reaching an agreement with their employer. The unions, which include the University Teachers …

The leadership of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has called off its strike that commenced on November 18, 2022. The Association in a letter addressed to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and copied to the Minister of Education, Minister of Finance, Chairman of the National Labour …

The Ghana National Association of Authors and Publishers (GNAAP) is instituting a new price increment for books and stationery for schools. The increment which took effect on 8th November 2022 will affect bookshops, basic schools, Junior and pre-tertiary institutions. GNAAP named the current exchange rates, inflation, payment terms, and interest …

The Registrar for the National Teaching Council, Dr Christian Addai-Poku, says 44,000 out of the 120, 000 teachers who wrote the 2022 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examinations, have failed. He said the results of the examinations were worrying, considering the poor performance of the teachers who were supposed to be imparting …

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) is worried about the seeming nonchalance of managers of the country’s education as regards the strike action by at least five educational worker unions across public universities and Colleges of Education.   “Once again, we want to state clearly that the frustration and …