EDUCATION

The school is about 21 years but there is nothing to write home about due to its current poor nature, cries Assembly man of Beposo , Isaac Andane. He was talking about the state of Beposo D/A KG in the Shama District in the Western Region. The wooden and bamboo …

With a few weeks to the commencement of the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), final year pupils of the Ata Ne Ata Basic School in the Shama District of the Western Region say the odds are stuck against them. The BECE candidates of the school are raising serious academic …

      The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), is insisting that its members will go on strike, beginning August 2, 2021, if issues concerning their conditions of service are not addressed by the end of July 2021.   President of the Association, Prof. Charles Marfo, said the decision …

Some students of Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School have shared experiences of how some military and police officers Monday night assaulted them in their dormitories. This followed a demonstration in the school earlier in the night.     The students had staged a protest over the directive of the Ghana …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has written to heads of all senior high and technical schools not to allow any student to go home for the mid-semester break. According to the GES, mid-semester break should be observed in schools with no academic activity. This is due to the upsurge in …

Form three students of senior high schools will begin their mid-semester break from tomorrow, Tuesday, 20 July to Sunday, July 25, 2021.     This was contained in a letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in charge of Quality and Access, Dr Kwabena Bempah …

Some students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST) on Friday July 16 demonstrated over what they describe as outrageous hostel fees. The students took to the principal streets of KNUST and marched through to all the seven traditional halls on campus amidst chanting of war songs as they …

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has confirmed government’s purchase of past questions for candidates preparing for this year’s West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). Responding to a question on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, July 14, Dr Osei Adutwum said the past questions were procured …

The Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Health Service have partially locked down the Achimota School in the Greater Accra Region following the detection of the COVID-19 Delta strain in the school. The school authorities have been directed not to allow anyone to visit the premises nor allow anyone to …

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers has threatened to get its members to lay down their tools if the government fails to increase their salary by Friday, July 2. The Chairman of the group, Kingsley Anyimadu Darko, speaking to JoyNews said the high cost of living is affecting them. “We are …