The leadership of the Technical Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), says its members will go ahead with the planned strike beginning today, Monday, June 14, 2021, despite a directive from the National Labour Commission to call off the strike and come to the negotiation table on Wednesday. The Association …
Read More »About 972 Students In The Northern Region Could Not Write 2020 BECE
About 972 candidates in the Northern region could not write the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the region, the regional Director of Education has revealed. According to Dr Peter Attafuah, Northern out of the 972 candidates, 522 were girls with 113 pregnant. The Regional Director of Education …
Read More »E/R: Onyanfunso M/A School Teachers Use Tables As Boards To Teach In Collapsing Classrooms
Teachers at Onyanfunso M/A Basic School in West Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region write on tables for pupils due to inadequate boards. The teacher’s turn tables of KG pupils to write on them for the pupils to read and write. The school, constructed in 1962 with mud by the …
Read More »Every Student In Primary 4 To Write a National Standardised Test This Year – Dr. Adutwum
The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei-Adutwum has disclosed that government in its quest to build a robust education system will introduce a National Standardised Test for pupils at the basic level in the country. Speaking on the topic “President Akufo-Addo’s Education Agenda: Four years and Beyond” on Sunday, Mr Adutwum …
Read More »My Son Is Not Old Enough To Be In SHS – Yaw Adutwum
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. …
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