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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...

GES denies importation of new JHS uniform

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has described claims of importation of new Junior High School (JHS) uniform as baseless.In a statement signed by the...

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...