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 …
Read More »Free SHS This, Free SHS That: Ignoring The Noise, Acknowledging The Challenges
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 …
Read More »Achimota School Backs Down Temporarily On Decision To Halt Rasta Boys’ Admission
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 …
Read More »AR: Authorities At St. Peters Basic School Beg Government To Complete Abandoned Classroom Block
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 …
Read More »Achimota Board Can’t Take A Unilateral Decision To Appeal ‘Rasta’ Students Case – Education Minister
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 …
Read More »GES to Naana Opoku-Agyemang: Your Remarks On WASSCE Performance Disappointing
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. …
Read More »Rastafarian saga: We’ll Appeal High Court Ruling, Says Achimota School
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 …
Read More »E/R: Akyem Akyekrom Basic School Turns Death Trap; Residents Cry For Help ( Video & Audios)
The Akyem Akyekrom primary and Junior High School (JHS) school in the Akyemansa district of the Eastern region is gradually sinking into the ground, taking away the pride of education from children in the community. The school lacks almost everything including desks, textbooks, teachers and other teaching and learning materials. …
Read More »High Court Orders Achimota School To Admit Rasta Student, Tyrone Marhguy
The Human Rights Court 1 Division of the High Court in Accra, has ordered Achimota School to admit Tyrone Marhguy, the dreadlocked Rastafarian boy into the school. The Court, in the same spirit, directed Achimota School to also admit Oheneba Nkrabea, another Rastafarian student into the school. Speaking after the …
Read More »Form 2 Green Track Students To Go Back To School On June 1
Gold Track senior high school form two students are to begin their end-of- semester vacation today, May 28, 2021 to pave the way for the Green Track Form Two students to report to school on June 1, 2021. A statement signed and issued by the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana …
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