A total 411 out of the 465 candidates who scored grade A in all subjects at the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), were students from Ghana pioneering the Government’s Free Senior High School (SHS) Programme. Immediate past Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, at the fourth …

All teachers in Ghana would have to acquire a license in order to be qualified to practise. As a result, teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) before September 1, 2018 have been asked to register online and qualify for the license to be issued by the National Teaching …

Some Form 3 senior high school (SHS) students are stranded as the Ghana Education Service (GES) has considered a proposal from the Conference of Heads Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) to postpone re-opening. The final year students were supposed to report to school on Tuesday, April 6 after the Easter …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed school authorities at the basic level not to organise end-of-term exams for the current academic year. A circular issued by Deputy Director-General of the Service, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, indicated that all heads of schools should make sure that all pupils from KG …

President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Ms Philippa Larsen has lamented the lack of textbooks and other materials or resources to enhance teaching and learning in schools. The GNAT president is troubled and surprised that Ghana Education Service (GES) after 1 to 2years of changing the school …

    Mr.  charles Opoku and his Akosua Baako Foundation together with Friends of Charles Opoku, as part of its educational program has begun the donation of 84,000 exercise books to 17,000 students in the Assin North District of the central region. SOME BENEFICIARIES (Schools) Assin Bereku D/A School Adom …

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, will on Monday, March 22 appear before Parliament following an urgent question filed last week by North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. The question is related to the content of controversial textbooks said to denigrate some ethnic groups – …

The Deputy General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen says it is needful for the Ghana Education Service (GES) to review the policy that frowns on students using mobile phones in schools. He indicated that at a period where technology has taken the centre stage …

    The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has directed the Achimota Senior High School to admit two first year students who were denied admission into the school because of their dreadlocks.   The school had on Thursday turned home the dreadlocked students, asking their parents to cut off …

Children’s rights advocacy organisation Child Rights International has called on authorities at Achimota School to first of all grant admission to two Rastafarian students before talking about their hair. It said this is on the basis of the Welfare Principle of the Children’s Act of 560.         …