EDUCATION

About 972 candidates in the Northern region could not write the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the region, the regional Director of Education has revealed. According to Dr Peter Attafuah, Northern out of the 972 candidates, 522 were girls with 113 pregnant.   The Regional Director of Education …

Teachers at Onyanfunso M/A Basic School in West Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region write on tables for pupils due to inadequate boards. The teacher’s turn tables of KG pupils to write on them for the pupils to read and write. The school, constructed in 1962 with mud by the …

The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei-Adutwum has disclosed that government in its quest to build a robust education system will introduce a National Standardised Test for pupils at the basic level in the country. Speaking on the topic “President Akufo-Addo’s Education Agenda: Four years and Beyond” on Sunday, Mr Adutwum …

The Education Minister, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has debunked claims of enrolling his son in a private Senior High School (SHS). Expressing his disappointment with the reportage, he noted that the purported allegation is a mere political game some individuals have employed to downplay the impact of government’s flagship Free Senior …

Perhaps, it was a tad optimistic in hindsight, for supporters of the Free Senior High School policy to expect that the critics of the policy would be silenced by its successful implementation. When the policy took off in September 2017, many of us thought the whole nation would unite to …

Achimota School has backed down on a decision to freeze the court order to admit the two Rastafarian boys. The school’s board in a statement on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, said it is however committed to an appeal against the ruling of the High Court. It said the decision comes …

Authorities of the St. Peters R/C Basic School in Sabronum in the Ashanti Region want government to resume work on a classroom block project which has been abandoned for over a decade.     Students of the school are forced to study in a dilapidated structure put up by the …

The Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum has asked the governing board of Achimota Senior High School to hasten slowly in its move to appeal the case the Rastafarian students who dragged the school to court and won. He said it not right that the board will decide by itself …

  Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the former education minister alleges the 2020 WASSCE papers were leaked to students   The Ghana Education Service (GES) has described as “unfortunate” attempt by Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the former education minister to attribute the excellent ‘Free SHS’ WASSCE results to leaked papers.   …

The governing board of Achimota School says that it will appeal against a ruling by the Human Rights Court in Accra which ordered officials of the school to admit a young Rastafarian student, Tyron Iras Marhguy. In a statement issued on Tuesday (1 June) the board said that “the School Board disagrees with …