EDUCATION

The Ministry of Education is insisting widespread reports about the leakage of some papers in the ongoing 2021 WASSCE forcing the rescheduling of some papers are false. Deputy Spokesperson at the Ministry Yaw Opoku Mensah said the papers in question were put on hold to investigate portions of the question …

National Security operatives have arrested a man in connection with the leaking of question papers in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) being conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).     Gideon Darko, suspected operator of a clandestine online platform called Jerusalema WhatsApp group, was …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released dates for the papers cancelled in the ongoing West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).   The papers – Physics 1 & 2 and Business Management 1& 2 – were cancelled as a result of widespread leakage. They were cancelled on Wednesday, …

Oheneba Nkrabea, one of the Rasta students has currently been enrolled at Ghana International School(GIS) in Accra. Kasapa News sources say the parents of the Rasta student moved their ward to the prestigious international school after they learned of the Attorney General’s decision to appeal against the High Court’s ruling …

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 …