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WAEC yet to release 2019 BECE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is yet to release the results for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)...

WAEC yet to release 2019 BECE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is yet to release the results for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School...

Ladè Wosornu, others to facilitate Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop 2019

Retired Ghanaian surgeon and poet, Professor Ladè Wosornu has been announced as one of the six facilitators of the Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop 2019.The others include,...

Stop harassing teachers for money… GNACOPS warns Education Directors

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) is warning district directors of education to desist from harassing members to pay money for training...

Teachers ill-prepared for rushed new curriculum – Educationist

A quality education specialist with the SOS Villages Ghana has indicated that the new curriculum for basic and high schools is being rushed.Beginning the...

School Feeding rot: Gender Ministry embarks on clean-up

The Ministry of Gender and Social Protection has tasked about 700 Youth Employment Agency (YEA) officers to carry out a comprehensive assessment, including verification...

Fabewoso: GH¢899,617 School Feeding cash not accounted for in 81 MMDAs[Video]

About 81 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been cited for causing financial loss to the State after they failed to account for...

Mulan Activity Centre supports street children

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Mulan Activity Centre has offered educational support to street children in the country.The move is to ensure...

KNUST set to open a new satellite campus at Obuasi

The Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a delegation from KNUST has paid a working visit to Obuasi Satellite...

GES releases GHC 7.6m for curriculum training participants

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disbursed a further transportation allowance of GHC50 per person to participants of the just ended curriculum training programme.The...

Audio: We are thinking and changing lives – GRASAG slams Senyo Hosi over UG outburst

The University of Ghana Chapter of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has described as unfortunate the recent outburst by the Chief Executive...

Y’asem Nie: Visually impaired woman breaks barriers; builds school for community

A visually impaired Senior State Attorney has braced all odds to build a 12- unit classroom block for the people of Kasoa-Domeabra in the...

Gov’t introduces ‘One -Pupil-One-Cocoa Drink’ policy

Government of Ghana is implementing policies that will help instill the habit of cocoa consumption in the populace and will, in the long run,...

New curriculum: Critical thinking children can now challenge teachers – NaCCA boss

Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment says one of the purposes of the new curriculum for basic schools is to...

5 GES officials cited over missing GH¢276,621

The 2018 Auditor-General’s Report has cited five officials of the Nkwanta-North District office of the Ghana Education service (GES) for squandering GH¢276,621.The officials are...

Tinkaro Asare Osei adjudged most impactful student leader in Ghana

Tinkaro Asare Osei who doubles as the President of the National Union of Ghana students (NUGS) has been adjudged the most impactful student...

GES announces new reopening date for SHS 3 students

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced Sunday, August 25, 2019 as a general school reopening day for Senior High School (SHS) 3 students.In...

No pupil will be sacked for not wearing new uniforms – GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no pupil will be sacked for not wearing the new school uniforms for Junior High School students when...

Teachers participating in new curriculum workshops to get GHc50 allowance, T&T – GES Director

Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has disclosed teachers participating in the new curriculum workshop will be paid an allowance...

BECE will soon be scrapped – NaCCA boss

The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has said the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has outlived its usefulness and...

Unapproved textbooks will not be allowed in classroom – GES

Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said textbooks that are not assessed, approved and recommended by the National...

Row over Burundi students ripping up uniforms

Pictures of Burundian students celebrating the end of exams by tearing up their uniforms have caused so much of a stir they even came...

40,000 teachers opt out of GES’ ‘compulsory’ SIC Insurance Policy

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has disclosed that a total of 40,000 teachers across Ghana have opted out...

Audio+Photos: Absence of doors, windows force pupils to carry furniture home

The absence of doors and windows at the Solid Rock Baptist Academy at Dromankesse in the Bono East region has compelled pupils to carry...

Rot in Free Basic Education exposed …As school heads charge water bill, other illegal fees

A Corruption Watch (CW) investigation into the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) in five regions of the country has found that public basic...

There was no free scholarship for Cuban students – NPP man

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for the New Juaben North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang has said there was no free scholarship...

Spending oil revenue on free SHS a better investment – Education Minister

Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, says the decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to spend the country’s oil revenue on “Free Senior High School (SHS) education...

Akufo-Addo ‘mocks’ NDC plan to scrap free SHS after 2020 comeback

President Akufo-Addo says Ghanaians will not entrust power into the hands of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2020, because of their determination...

Saudi King to support Ghana with a medical university, 42 SHS blocks – Veep

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha celebration, announced that the Saudi King, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, had promised to finance the construction...

AIT graduates Sixth Batch of PhD students

The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), a leading technology-focus private university, graduated its sixth batch of 13 PhD candidates during the University’s 14th Graduation Congregation held in...

Prez Akufo-Addo applauds decision to name UENR after Prime Minister Busia

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has applauded the decision by the Governing Council of the University of Energy and Natural Resources to name...

NaCCA holds stakeholder consultation on JHS, SHS curriculum review

The Ministry of Education, working in partnership with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the Ghana Education Service held a 3-day Ministerial Technical Advisory Committee...

Teachers fully equipped to teach new curriculum – GES

Director of Pre-tertiary Education at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Catherine Agyapomaa Appiah-Pinkrah says all is set for the roll out of the...

Government justifies expenditure on Free SHS

Debates over the use of oil money to fund the government’s flagship programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), have surfaced once...

Volta GNAT to go on strike over “illegal deduction”

The Volta Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) would embark on an industrial action should the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the...

Amantia JHS wins maiden Asante-Akyim quiz competition

Amantia Junior High School on Friday emerged winners of the maiden edition of the Asante-Akyim South Municipality’s inter-schools quiz competition held at Juaso in the Ashanti...

Ghana signs agreement with Germany for skills development

Ghana, through the Ministry of Education, has signed an agreement with Germany for support to develop the skills of its youth in the Technical,...

Ashanti Region holds basic schools Arts and Culture festival

The Ashanti Regional School Coordinating Council on Tuesday organised an Arts and Culture festival to showcase the rich Ghanaian culture.According to the Ashanti Regional...

Infographics: Results of 2019 WASSCE at a glance

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the 2019 provisional results of candidates who took the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).Check...

2019 WASSCE: How to check your results in 8 easy steps

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates, who took the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates...