EDUCATION

Visually impaired female students of Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern region have called on stakeholders to pay special attention to the needs of females with visual impairment. The female visually impaired students believe much has not to be done to support vulnerable visually impaired girls in the …

An Accra High Court has instructed the Management of the University of Ghana, Legon, to swear-in Prince Asumadu as president of the Student Representative Council (SRC).   The complainant, Mr. Asumadu, dragged the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, the Dean of Student Affairs, the SRC Electoral Commissioner and the …

The government of Morocco has increased the quota of its annual scholarship program to Ghanaian students willing to study in Morocco to seventy. Currently, there are more than two hundred (200) Ghanaian students studying various courses in Morocco under the scholarship program. Speaking in an interview with Ghanaian journalists who …

The President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given approval for the grant of Presidential Charter to three university colleges to award their own degrees. The institutions are the Methodist University College, Ghana, the Presbyterian University College, Ghana and the Catholic University College, Ghana. A statement issued by the …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers, GNAT, has asked the Ministry of Education through its collaborative agencies to ensure that textbooks and other resources are provided in schools. In a statement to mark Independence Day, GNAT lamented the “absence of resources for teachers and textbooks for pupils three clear years …

The Management of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has condemned media reports suggesting that the programme which provides daily hot meals to over 3.4 million deprived public basic school pupils has been suspended indefinitely by the Government.   According to the National Coordinator of GSFP, Gertrude Quashigah, the media …

A primary school teacher with the Kogyina M/A Primary School in the Bibiani Anwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region has been hit by a stray bullet. Narrating how the incident happened on Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning show, the teacher, Prince Badu Dankwa, indicated that he was on his …

The government has announced the suspension of the expansion of the School Feeding Programme to allow debts owed caterers to be cleared. This was disclosed by the Minister responsible for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cecilia Abena Dapaah on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday. The Minister’s announcement was in …

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), have intimated that any further delay in the payment of salaries of its members for the month of February will put a huge financial burden on their members. According to the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu, …

The National Association of Graduate Teachers, NAGRAT, says its decision not to attend the National Labour Conference is based on its conviction that the meeting was not meant to salvage the hardships facing the ordinary government employee. President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu says, although the group was invited, it did …