EDUCATION

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 …

  All 16 flagship programs of the government including the Free Senior High School are up for review.     This is according to Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.   This is one of the many decisions taken at a 3-day crunch cabinet meeting, held at Peduase Lodge to proffer …

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Association of Bankers, John Awuah, has called on the government to review some of its flagship programmes, especially now that the country is experiencing economic crisis. According to him, the Free Senior High School programme in its current state, is wasteful and does …

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has observed that the challenges facing the country are not peculiar to Ghana as many other nations across the globe are going through the same. He noted that the challenges have been occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic. “Our nation, and indeed every …