EDUCATION

Parliament is expected to invite the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to appear on the floor of the House to answer questions relating to newly-authored history textbooks for students. This comes after lawmaker for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said he has filed an urgent parliamentary question requesting the minister …

    The Management of the Akosombo International School (AIS) has said in a statement that all the students and staff who tested positive for COVID-19 have now recovered from the virus.   A statement released on Thursday March 11 by the Volta River Authority (VRA) said “All students and …

Some 41,359 students who wrote the Basic Examination Certificate Exam (BECE) were disqualified for school placement.   Mark Sasu Mensah, the National Coordinator for the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), said the affected students were disqualified on grounds that they had incomplete results.   “Either you failed or …

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof Kwasi Amankwah says government must reconsider a continuation of the double-track system in some Senior High Schools (SHS). This follows the suspension of the double-track system employed across the country after the reopening of schools for the 2020/21 academic year. The …

Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has formally opened the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal following the release of the 2020 school placements. Candidates who so desire to check Senior High Schools (SHS) they have been placed in, can access it through the dedicated website www.cssps.gov.gh. …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says preparations are ongoing for the release of the computerized school placement for the 2020/2021 academic year. In a press release sighted by JoyNews, Head of Public Relations Unit at GES, Cassandra Twum Ampofo explained that the delay for the release is due to the …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has proposed for schools in the country to be shut down in order to control the rising spread of Coronavirus in the country. The call comes in the wake of increasing fatalities among COVID patients in the country. The death rate of the virus has …

The President’s Representative at the Ministry of Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has met with the leadership of the Pre-tertiary Unions (NAGRAT, GNAT and CCT) to bid them farewell as he draws the curtains on his tenure as Minister of Education. Dr. Prempeh took the opportunity to thank them …

All female students of the Paga Senior High School in Kassena-Nankana West have been directed by school authorities to go home.   They have been asked to go home and return in a week’s time. The directive comes a day after a fire ravaged a female dormitory facility at the …