EDUCATION

The government has gone back on its earlier directive for basic schools to run a semester-based academic calendar. It made the announcement in a statement on Friday, January 21, 2022. The directive for basic schools including Kindergarten, and Junior High School to change the trimester-based calendar to a semester-based one …

Bob Marley of blessed memory said in one of his songs that have knowledge through education, no one can take it away from you. It is often said that education makes a woman more beautiful and attractive and men more gentlemanly and respectable. Many countries lay great emphasis on education …

Teacher Unions in the basic education sector have kicked against the government’s change of the trimester-based academic calendar to a semester-based one. The unions; GNAT, NAGRAT, TEWU, and CCT-GH in a joint statement said they are disappointed that for such a major decision, the government did not consult or engage …

Africa Education Watch has said it was not consulted by the Ghana Education Service on the decision to make the semester system permanent for basic and Senior High Schools, contrary to a claim by an official of the Service. “Like all other citizens, we were only informed through GES’s Facebook …

The Education Ministry’s Spokesperson, Kwasi Kwarteng, has explained that the Double Track system of the Free Senior High School policy has not been completely abolished. In a Twitter post on Friday, he explained that “double track is not completely abolished. We have eliminated double entry of Form One and Form …

Second and third-year students in second cycle schools will be heading back to school on February 7, 2022.   According to a Ghana Education Service release, the first years have a tentative reopening date of April 4, 2022. All students in basic schools will return to school on January 18. …

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed the Colleges of Education Teachers’ Association of Ghana (CETAG) to appear before it over its ongoing industrial action for better conditions of service. This was after CETAG failed to honour an invitation by the Commission for a meeting today, Wednesday, January 12, 2022. …

President Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) School at East Legon in Accra. He assured that science and technology will be given prominent attention in his second term. Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, President Akufo-Add said his government is repositioning …

The Association of Aggrieved teachers has disputed claims by President Nana Akufo-Addo that teachers have been paid their legacy arrears. According to the association, all efforts to have the government pay the arrears owed its members have proven futile.   The group in a statement said, “We write with much …

The accommodation crisis at the University of Ghana (UG) gets worse yearly with no end in sight as thousands of admitted students fight like hell to secure comfortable residence for their academic work. The most obvious expressions worn by scores of frustrated students are those of outright despair and distress …