Audio: GES PRO blames parents, café attendants for SHS placement confusion
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is blaming parents
and Cafe attendants for the confusion that has marred the 2019 Senior High School
(SHS) placements in Ghana.According...
Video+Photos: JHS graduate collapses at Independence Square over SHS placement confusion
A female Junior High School (JHS) graduate on Monday morning collapsed at the Independence Square, Accra after long hours in a queue to change...
Audio: Angry parents to storm Jubilee House over SHS placement confusion
Some disgruntled parents, whose wards were turned away by authorities of Mfantsipim Senior High School (SHS) in the Central region, have expressed disgust at...
Akufo-Addo directs suspension of GES staff from HRMIS
President Akufo-Addo
has ordered the immediate suspension of the use of the Human Resource
Management Information System (HRMIS) platform, to administer the payroll of
the Ghana Education...
GNAT President, General Secretary asked to resign
The Greater Accra chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called for the resignation of its national president, Philipa Larsen and...
SHS girl goes naked as she twerks to Medikal’s ‘Wrowroho’
A female teen believed to be a student of Beposo Senior High School has gone viral for the wrong reasons.This was after she went...
Accra Children’s Book Festival cancelled for 2019
The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) has confirmed the cancellation of the 2019 Accra Children’s Book Festival.The biggest children’s book festival in Ghana was...
Video+Photos: Snakes takeover Agona Nyarkrom Basic School
Pupils of the Agona Nyarkrom Roman Catholic Junior High School A&B in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region have threatened to boycott...
Video: Admission disrupted following dispute over Dabokpa SHS land
Instead of concentrating on assisting new students with their admission, management of the Dabokpa Senior High School has been forced into a renewed land dispute...
Tinkaro Osei to launch book on NUGS
Tinkaro Asare Osei, Ghana's representative to the
Commonwealth Students' Association and President of the National Union of Ghana
Students will today , Wednesday 11th September 2019...
Sabre education, GES collaborate to improve kindergarten education
SabreEducation,
a multi-award winning charity organization in collaboration with the Ghana
Education Service has launched a program to scale up quality kindergarten
education in four district and...
BECE candidates get second chance at placement
A total of 122,706 candidates who qualified to enter the senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions but have not been placed, now have...
GNAT president distances group from members’ strike in six regions
The leadership of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has described the strike action by its members in six regions as illegal.ALSO: Butchered...
Audio: Allotey Jacobs blasts SHS placement secretariat for discrimination
Former Central Regional chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is peeved at the seeming discrimination against indigenes of the Central region.According to...
Parents lock up headmistress for charging admission, other fees (Photos)
Some
aggrieved parents of a government school at Iron City, a suburb of Kasoa in the
Central region have locked up the headmistress over extortion.The parents,...
Parents fume over SHS placement challenges
Some parents and guardians have expressed frustration at their inability to print out the details of Senior High Schools (SHSs) and Technical Schools their...
GNAT declares strike in 6 regions
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has joined sister teacher group, National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in its industrial action...
Video: Five steps to check SHS computerised placement online
The Ministry of Education has released a video guide to aid prospective Senior High School students to easily identify where they have been placed...
GES releases 2019 SHS placements
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all candidates who passed their 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into various Senior High...
NaCCA responds to Publishers Association
The Executive Secretary of National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) is shocked at complaints Publishers Association that it sidestepped in the new curriculum reform....
51-year-old trader takes advantage of free SHS
Comfort Nutsugah, a 51-year old trader, has taken advantage of government's Free Senior High School Policy to further her education.Ms. Nutsugah, a mother of...
Katanga Hall conversion: Gov’t prevails upon KNUST authorities to change stand
The government of Ghana has, through the Ministry of
education, written to the governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST) to...
Video: We will not rest until we get our hall back – ‘Katangees’
Old students and current students of the University Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have vowed not to rest...
Police arrest 2 agitating on KNUST campus
Police
in the Ashanti region has arrested two persons for agitating on the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology for the return of
University Hall,...
Here is the academic calendar for SHS students
The Ghana Education Service has released the 2019/20 1st Semester Academic Calendar for Senior High Schools.
30 things GES wants all parents, students to know as schools reopen
The Ghana Education Service has addressed a press conference as public schools reopen across the country.Here is a bullet-point presentation of information, the GES wants...
Textbooks for new curriculum not ready – Ghana Book Publishers Association reveals
The Ghana Book Publishers Association has revealed that textbooks developed based on the new curriculum are not ready and will not be available in...
NAGRAT declares strike
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has declared a strike over what it describes as untold pressure and hardship on teachers following the...
Govt inaugurates 17-member new UEW Governing Council
A 17-member Governing Council on Thursday was inaugurated for the running of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) following the expiration of the old...
Audio: Land guards assault woman at Legon
A group of land guards have allegedly beaten to a pulp, a woman at Legon in the Greater Accra Region when they invaded a...
Ablekuma West Assembly gives 500 dual desks to schools ahead of reopening
The Ablekuma West
Municipal Chief Executive, George Bray, has presented 500 dual desks to the
Ablekuma West Municipal Directorate of Education to be distributed to schools
in...
Danger: KNUST campus declared a security zone
The campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been declared a security zone by the Ashanti Regional Security Council...
GES starts recruitment of teachers
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has started recruiting
qualified newly trained teachers for the 2019/2020 academic year.A release issued and signed by the Director of...
GES yet to settle on requisite books for new syllabus
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is yet to settle on the requisite books needed for the new basic school curriculum. Although it is just a week...
GES yet to settle on requisite books for new syllabus
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is yet to settle on the requisite books needed for the new basic school curriculum. Although it is just a week...
GES to release SHS placement for BECE candidates
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced the West African Examination Council (WAEC) would be released the 2019 Senior High School placement for BECE...
Sex-for-grade undermining quality education – UPSA Lecturer
Lecturer at the University of Professional
Studies, Fred Awaah, has decried the wave of sex-for-grade incidents in
Ghanaian universities, urging a change in attitude.He...
WAEC cancels results of 19 BECE candidates
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), following the release of the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), says it has cancelled the entire results...
WAEC releases 2019 BECE results
The West African Examination Council has released provisional results of the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).A total of 517,331 candidates took part in...
2019 BECE provisional results released by WAEC
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of provisional results for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).In a statement signed...