EDUCATION

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 …

The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has urged the leadership of the Gaming Commission of Ghana, to intensify efforts to close down betting companies that flout laws guiding their operations in the country.   He cited the siting of betting facilities close to educational institutions to entice children as something …

The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) says it will limit the 2023/24 admissions to applicants who will score an aggregate six in their WASSCE examinations.  The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey, who disclosed this at a ceremony in the school explained that this is …

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) has said it regrets wrongly citing Action Secondary Technical School (ASTS) at Madina for examination malpractice during its Friday, 16 September 2022 update to the media. “During the Council’s second update to the media on September 16, 2022, Action Secondary Technical School, Madina, was …

The Colleges of Education Non-Teaching Staff Association of Ghana (CENTSAG) has announced that it has put off its strike which began early November. The strike, which began Friday, November 11, was as a result of government’s delay in implementing some agreed 2022 conditions of service for its members. The association …

Ghana is currently in talks with member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over the adoption of its serialisation policy, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. The policy of serialisation means that students at different examination centers and even at the same examination center will receive different questions …

The Technical University Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) will be striking from December 6, 2022 if the government does not address its condition of service concerns. In a statement, the union said the strike was a result of the government and the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission’s “refusal” to address …

Following a cash donation made by the NPP Constituency First Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party of the constituency to the Otumfuo Community Reading Challenge (OCRC) organized by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Foundation on November 11, 2022, the award-winning student (Miss Lordina Serwaa Agyapong) in this year’s competition, …

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that 1,215,546 children of school-going age in Ghana are not attending school. A substantial 942,427 of the 1.2 million children have never attended school. These findings emanate from the 2021 PHC Thematic Brief on Childhood Vulnerabilities in Ghana, which presents statistics on children …