EDUCATION

The government through the Ministry of Education is preparing to replace textbooks with laptops in Senior High Schools across the country. The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who announced this, said textbooks and other teaching and learning materials would be installed on the laptops to be used during lessons. Speaking …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has opened nominations, as scheduled, for interested members to pick forms to contest its presidential primaries. Nominations were opened on Friday, May 26 and scheduled to close on Saturday, June 24. On Friday, supporters of some key aspirants were at the party’s headquarters in Accra …

The Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency and also  Deputy Education Minister, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, is not pleased with the content of the controversial history textbook published by Excellence Publications, which denigrated Christianity in Ghana. He described the content of the book as appalling and misguided. The textbook, …

The University of Ghana has been ranked as the best university in Ghana and second-best in West Africa in the 2023 edition of the Global 2000 list by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). The University was also considered part of the top 6.1% of world-class universities by the …

The 15th congregation of 2022 graduating students of Amedzorfe College of Education (AMECO) in 2023 has recorded a remarkable achievement where seven (7) students from the College of Education, (AMECO) in the Volta region of Ghana have graduated with first-class honours dabbed _”#the nonsense must stop”_ and the nonsense have …

The Minority has said since 2017 when the free Senior High school programme was implemented, they cautioned the government to hasten slowly so that a proper rollout of the policy would be meaningful and beneficial to Ghanaians. However, they said, this was not heeded and was described as propaganda. The …

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Val Charity Foundation, Janet Asibi, popularly known as “The Sewing Teacher” has appealed to government to reduce the tax on the importation of sanitary pads to make it affordable. She stated that “lack of sanitary pads has been identify as a major contributing factor …

The former president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has stated that the next National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will restore the licences of banks whose authorizations were “unjustly” revoked as part of the government’s financial sector reforms. This, he claims, is one of the rafts of measures aimed at revitalizing …

Pupils of St. Immaculate R/C in Nandom in the Upper West Region have benefitted from the benevolence of a Ghanaian professional teacher at Aboabo Presby Primary School at Akim Oda in the Eastern Region. The philanthropist, madam Janet Asibi, also known as Ama Val, donated 108 sets of school uniforms, …

The Council of the University of Ghana has approved a one-time discount of 2% on the 15% fee increment for some of its students for the 2022/2023 academic year. This comes on the back of an approval by Parliament for the academic year. The discounts apply to full fee-paying programmes, …