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KUMACA old students hold 5th national homecoming; elect new executives

The Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) Past Students Association has held its 5th National Congress and Homecoming over the weekend.Held under the theme 'Let Our...

West End International School holds 4th graduation

The West End International School (WEIS), one of Ghana’s leading private schools, has held its 4th graduation ceremony for 2019 final year Junior High...

NaCCA to clampdown on ‘unapproved textbooks

As part of efforts to rid the market off unapproved textbooks, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) is set to introduce...

59,000 teachers recruited since 2017 — Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described the era of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the best time to study...

GES implements new curriculum September

Beginning from the 2019/2020 academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) will roll out a new educational curriculum that will focus on the total...

Photos: Kumasi Academy holds memorial service for departed students

Management and old students association of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) in the Ashanti region have held memorial service for students who died mysteriously in 2017.The...

‘We want to keep it’ – Augusco psyched for NSMQ2020

Newly crowned National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) champions, St. Augustine’s College have already declared their intentions to retain the title next year.When the team...

Augusco rainmakers end 12-year NSMQ trophy drought

A trophy drought is a hard thing to break. Ask the Black Stars. It has been 37-years since the last trophy.But if you are...

NSMQ2019: The St Peter’s boys who said it is finished, have been finished

It is finished, it is finished; champions of the NSMQ 2019, Augustine’s College chanted. They were using the defending champion’s pre-battle line against them.The contestants of...

NaCCA begins dev’t of Comprehensive Assessment Framework

A five-day workshop to develop an Assessment Framework for the new standards-based curriculum has begun at Blue Royal Hotel in Larteh Aheneasi.The workshop is being led by the National Council for Curriculum and...

GES directs headteachers to fund 2019 end of term exams with Sports and Culture Levy

The Ghana Education Service has instructed head teachers of public schools across the country to use the Sports and Culture component of the Capitation...

GES releases capitation grant for schools

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced the release of the base capitation grant for schools for 2018/2019 tranche.In a statement signed by the Deputy...

Gov’t has recruited 59,000 teachers since 2017 – Education Minister

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described the era of President Akufo-Addo, as the best time to study in Ghana. According to the Minister...

Inside story: How Presec, St. Augustine, St Peters got to NSMQ finals

The nine finalists of the 2019 National Science and Maths Quiz have been speaking ahead of the grand finale scheduled for Thursday, July 11 at...

EOCO to investigate Sekyere East School Feeding rot

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is set to investigate alleged misappropriation of funds meant for School Feeding Programme in the Sekyere East...

Procure exams print with price quotation — GES

Heads of basic schools in the country have been directed to use price quotations for the printing of the end of academic year examinations...

Photos: Afia Pokua’s Vim Foundation donates to Jacobu Methodist School

Afia Pokua of Adom FM, who is the founder of Vim Foundation, by way of putting smiles on the faces of pupils of Jacobu...

Lack of furniture, classrooms force Walewale pupils to sit on stones

Pupils of Gbeo M /A Primary School in the Mamprusi West Municipality of the North East region are now compelled to sit on the...

Oti region: Snakes force pupils, teachers out of class

The Chinekope District Assembly primary school built by the community in 2005, is housed in a very dilapidated structure built with mud.The only educational...

AIBF Literary Awards renamed in honour of Ghanaian poet, Prof Lade Wosornu

The annual literary awards organised by the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) is to be named after retired Ghanaian surgeon and poet, Professor Lade...

Photos: School’s torn roofing sheet scares pupils and teachers

Pupils and teachers at Kaneshie North Compound Basic School in the Greater Accra region live in fear as the school’s roof is in a...

Eye villages – Chancellor to graduates

The Chancellor of Baldwin University College, Dr Akwasi Achampong has cautioned graduates of his university to move to their regions of origin and villages to establish...

GES to roll out decentralisation policy to monitor workers

Upper West Regional Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), Duncan Nsoh, has said the education governing body would soon introduce a programme that will...

Photos: Nine-year-old girl cries to Akufo- Addo over dilapidated school

A nine-year-old pupil of Ntom R/C Basic School in the Upper Denkyira West District in the Central region has made an appeal to President...

Video: Fabewoso: Over 2 billion paid to ‘ghost schools’ under School Feeding

'Fabewoso', the anti-corruption segment on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem has once again uncovered massive rot in the Ghana School Feeding Programme in...

OLA Girls caught on camera drinking alcohol [Video]

Authorities of the OLA Girls Senior High School in Ho have set up a committee to investigate some students caught on camera getting drunk...

Keta municipal basic schools to write exams on the chalkboard

Basic Schools in the Keta, Ketu South and the Anloga Municipalities/Districts shall write their Third Term Examinations on chalkboards.This is a directive from the...

Audio: Drug Abuse: SHS students now mixing ‘shito’ with weed – NACOB

A lot of students are consuming cannabis through their hot pepper sauce (shito) in school, the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has revealed.According to the...

Accra Children’s Book Festival set to boost reading culture in Ghana

The Accra Children’s Book Festival (ACBF) 2019 is expected to boost the culture of reading among Ghanaian children.The Book Festival has been “purposely devised” as...

Photos+Audio: Abandoned classroom building rots as pupils learn under cocoa sheds with goats

Pupils of Agona Bosompa M/A school near Agona Nyarkrom in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region are now forced to learn in...

UGSRC requests “Forensic Audit” on the University of Ghana Enterprise Limited Halls (UGEL)

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana has put management on the spotlight by demanding for ‘proper’ account on the four University of...

UDS Navrongo campus to be named after C.K. Tedam – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the Navrongo campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) in the Upper East Region is to be named after the late...

Applications open for 2019 Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop

The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) is inviting applications for the 2019 Kwame Nkrumah Creative Writing Workshop.The face-to-face writing course will be held from...

NUGS establishes bilateral partnership with University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The National Union of Ghana Students' on Thursday, June 20, 2019 engaged the Management of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom to discuss a bilateral partnership...

Bad conditions in African schools: Agona Nyakrom KG pupils sit in sand to eat

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Audio: Sacked Nigerian professor to lose entitlements – UEW

Professor Austin Nwagbara, the visiting Nigerian lecturer, who has been dismissed by the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), following the contents of a tape...

Audio: Deport sacked UEW Professor- Lawyer demands

Controversial legal practitioner, Dr Maurice Ampaw wants the visiting Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, who was seen in a video inciting Nigerians against...

UEW sacks Nigerian Professor for derogatory comments

University of Education, Winnebago (UEW) has dismissed Nigerian English lecturer, Prof Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, who was with the university's department of Applied Linguistics over...

GES approves subjects for study leave

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has approved some subjects for study leave without pay for the 2019/2020 academic year.In a press statement issued to...

NUGS embarks on gas safety sensitization tour in some selected schools

The National Union of Ghana Students on Monday, June 17, 2019 embarked on a gas safety sensitization tour in some selected Junior High Schools to fully...