EDUCATION

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has elected Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo as its new President. Dennis was the former Students’ Representative Council (SRC) President of the University of Cape Coast (UCC). He won by a landslide vote of 824, beating his colleague aspirants Kwesi Atuahene who had 201 votes …

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has elected Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo as President despite agitations over credibility of the exercise. Mr Appiah Larbi-Ampofo won the election by garnering 78.1 percent of the votes cast. He expressed excitement at his election, promising to unite the association.   “Forget about everything, …

The General Secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Julius Kwame Anthony, has said that the Union’s national executive elections which took place during its 56th Annual Congress at the GNAT Village in Ejisu Abankrom, has been marred by malpractices.   According to him, based on the infractions …

President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Emmanuel Yiadom Boakye, has bemoaned the inability of the Student’s Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) to pay loans to students.   Speaking at the NUGS’s 56th Residential Congress at Ejisu on April 1, 2021, the NUGS president said that the SLTF has …

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Prof Ivan Addae Mensah, is worried about the government’s approach to improving education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The Emeritus Professor believes that building new facilities to accelerate education in these fields is not the panacea to the country’s low …

  The Ministry of Education announces to parents, guardians, students and the public that the 2021/2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) into Senior High Schools (SHS)/Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutes, has gone live on Saturday, 26th March 2022.   …

The Ministry of Education says the 2021/22 school placements will be released today. In a press release, the Ministry said, “…the 2021/2022 Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) into Senior High Schools (SHS)/ Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutes, will go …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has announced that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has no plan of cancelling or reviewing the free Senior High School programme. “Let me say this, President Akufo-Addo has absolutely no intention to rollback on any of the major policies like the free SHS. We see …

A three-unit classroom block of the Kwabeng Anglican Senior High School in the Eastern Region was destroyed last Friday by a heavy rainstorm. Portions of the computer laboratory was also ripped off. Sources at the school say about 150 Form Two students occupying the three-unit classroom block have been displaced. …

At least 11 pupils of the Paga E/A primary school in the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region have been left injured after the walls of two classrooms collapsed on them. A heavy rainstorm on Monday (21 March) swept through the town and ripped off roofs of buildings …