EDUCATION

Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been ordered to vacate campus by mid-day of 18 September, an official statement said. The Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (ARCC) said the directive is to prevent a planned disturbance on campus on the eve of vacation.     …

The minority in parliament has raised red flags over a directive from the education minister to forty-six colleges of education to pay GHc6.8m for wifi service. In a leaked letter, the minister Dr Yaw Adutwum asked the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission to facilitate the payment to Busy Internet following a …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed that two papers have been compromised in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The Council says its investigations have uncovered that extracts of the 2021 Elective Mathematics and English Language tests, had been found in the public domain. WAEC …

The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has been appointed to be a member of the Advisory Board of the Capacity Building Center (CBC) of the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). With this appointment, which is for a five-year term, …

Deputy Minister for Education, Gifty Twum-Ampofo has called on the Ghanaian populace to take advantage of the internet in improving both their academic and general knowledge. Speaking at a forum to mark this year’s International Literacy Day held in Techiman under the theme, “Complimentary Education for Human Development in Covid-19 …

The rumour trending on social media has it that, Nana Addo has ordered GES to suspend Teacher Kwadwo. The news has been greeted with anger among those who have seen it go viral. Teacher Kwadwo has been one of the vocal educators in recent times who has called on the Ghana Education Service …

A Facebook user identified as Oda Citizen has shared a story of a young vibrant Ghanaian final year Student of Akim State University College – ASUC pursing BSc in Human Resources Management on weekends who sells Wheat porridge and sometimes pastries on street to pay her school fees Perpetual Larbi …

Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Richard Nyamah, has pointed out that teachers are the center of learning in the classrooms and that they can prepare their lesson notes based on the new curriculum online even though there are no textbooks for the students in the country. …

Members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) have served notice to embark on an industrial action if the government does not meet their demand for better working conditions. The teachers said they want issues regarding their salaries, allowances and other related matters addressed by the government immediately otherwise, …

The GIJ Electoral body has disqualified three aspirants in the upcoming election of Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) slated for Wednesday, September 8. The disqualified aspirants are Albert Kofi Konadu, David Nana Appiah, and Abdulai Saaka who are all weekend students of the tertiary …