EDUCATION

The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has disclosed that children found loitering on the streets will soon get access to free formal education. The Ministry of Education made this announcement as part of a new policy known as the Complementary Education program. “We have children on the street, and …

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is collaborating with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to launch Supplementary Readers on social security for teachers and students on March 15, 2022, in Greater Kumasi.     Produced by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), the supplementary Readers and …

starrfm.com.ghThe various Student Representative Councils (SRCs) in the Ashanti region are demanding immediate action to halt the funding delays and food shortages affecting Senior High Schools (SHS) in the region. The student body made the call in its address to mark the opening of its 25th Congress and launching of …

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 …