EDUCATION

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 …

The University of Cape  Coast (UCC) has for the first time been ranked as the best University in Ghana, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) 2022 world universities ranking. UCC was the highest-ranked new entrant out of 138 universities that made their debut on the global universities ranking league table …

A student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been dismissed from the school for stealing laptops from the school’s library. Per a communique from the school, the student, Mr Dwumah Ramsay Ohene-Tutu stole two laptops from the school’s main library on different occasions. “Two other students …

Education Minister, Yaw Osei Adutwum, is unhappy despite the lowering of the pass mark in the recent licensure examination, the failure rate was very high. Out of the 27,455 candidates who sat for the 2020 teacher licensure examination, 8,442 failed to meet the pass mark. The number represents 30.7% of …

The National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) says it is negotiating with the Ministry of Education to begin posting trained teachers to private schools in the country. The move is also to supply private schools with government textbooks as it’s done for public schools. According to the Authority, the effort is …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commended the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) for suspending its strike. Nana Akufo-Addo said government will take into consideration issues raised by the union and will work to address them. The President was speaking at a meeting with the leadership of the National …

The Center for Socioeconomic Studies (CSS) is demanding clear timelines for the resolution of the continuing unavailability of textbooks for basic school students almost three years after the Nana Akufo-Addo led government introduced a new curriculum. The demand comes in the wake of reports that government has asked schools to …