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Ketabusco organises first Transformational Agenda Speech and Prize Giving Day on October 6th 2018

The President of the Keta Business College (KETABUSCO) Old Students Association (KEBSOSA), Dr. Seth Kwami Anani, has disclosed that the school will hold its...

VIDEO: We cannot send people’s children to private schools – Dep. Minister

Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Adutwum says it is impracticable to place students in private schools as an answer to the double-track system.It has...

Government to engage 9,000 graduates under double-track system

Government would employ additional 9,000 graduates under the double-track system by the close of the year to make it sustainable, Evans Opoku-Bobie, the Brong-Ahafo...

10 things you can do during the double track system vacation to keep you busy

The double track system which begins in the 2018/2019 academic year has 2 sessions.The first set of student which is the Gold session are...

Education minister dissolves Prempeh College Board

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has dissolved the Governing Board of Prempeh College over claims of complicity in the sale of the school’s lands.The action follows a...

WAEC refuses to release results of 20 BECE graduates despite court order

The future of twenty Junior High School graduates is in limbo because the West Africa Examination Council has upheld their results.The students were among...

Gov’t to restructure Non-Formal Education Division, Ecobank promises to invest in educational projects

The government has announced plans to restructure the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ghana Education Service to provide alternative education to Ghanaians.Minister of Education,...

Double-Track system a blessing in disguise – Dr. Adutwum

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has assured that all the problems that have come up following the implementation of the double...

AUDIO: Education Ministry to deal with head teachers in placement scandals

The Education Ministry has vowed to deal with head teachers who are involved in pseudo placement in various schools following the implantation of government’s...

(AUDIO) NCCE urged to educate parents on double track policy

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has been tasked to educate Ghanaians especially parents and students on the Senior High School (SHS) double-track...

Over 50% students complete self-placement

More than 50 percent of students have completed the self placement in Senior High Schools across the country.Head of communication for free SHS, Joseberther...

Audio: Boy with grade 47 hangs himself for not getting placement

A 16-year-old boy who had grade 47 in the just ended Basic Education Certificate examination (BECE) has allegedly committed suicide.According to reports, the deceased,...

‘Free SHS will create many Busias from poor families’

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the adherence to the Danquah-Busia-Dombo Tradition has shown greater care for the vulnerable and underprivileged as it...

AUDIO: Angry parents storm Independence Square over SHS placement

Some disgruntled parents and guardians on Monday besieged the Independence Square in Accra where the School Placement Resolution Centre has been set up.The angry...

GHS, GES sign MoU to give free health screening to 490,000 students

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide free medical screening services...

Teacher Licensure Examination starts Monday

A total of 28,910 newly trained teachers across the country will begin the first-ever Teacher Licensure Examination.The examination will be held in all the...

International Literacy Day: Reading competition held for elderly in Assin South

Reading competition has been held for the aged as part of the International Literacy Day Celebration at Assin Enyinabrem in Assin South District of...

40 SHS run double track system in BA

Forty out of 80 senior high schools in the Brong Ahafo Region have been selected to run the double-track system which takes effect from...

AUDIO: Parents share frustration over SHS placement

Some anxious parents and guardians of students who sat for the 2017 BECE have expressed frustration over failed attempts to secure placement in Senior...

Video: All you need to know about double track system

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Osei Adutwum, has addressed, in detail, the problems that have characterized government's proposed double-track system for senior high schools.The first...

FREE SHS: Education Ministry responds to GNAT over extension of reopening date

The Ministry of Education has responded to the plea by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) to extend the reopening date for Senior...

Audio: Toilet roll, bed sheets, pens not free under free SHS – CHASS

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) is worried parents don’t still understand the free Senior High School (SHS) policy.President of CHASS,...

2018 School Placement: No schools for over 67,000 students as GNAT calls for postponement in reopening

The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Wednesday released the placements of 423,134 students who successfully made it under the 2018 Computerised School Selection and...

GHS to introduce drone services to distribute essential medicines

The Director-General of Ghana Health Service says plans are advanced to introduce drone services to distribute essential medicines, vaccines and blood to the various...

Lift ban on use of mobile phones by students; GUNSA urges govt.

The Ghana United Nations Students and Youth Association (GUNSA) is demanding an immediate lifting of the ban on the use of mobile phones and...

BECE candidates given second chance at placement

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked Basic Education Certificate examination candidates who did not get automatic placement into senior high schools by the...

Double track system just like multiple church services – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has likened the double track system which is to begin in senior high schools this month, September, to...

2018 SHS choices of BECE candidates released

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all the candidates who passed their 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations, into the various senior...

Teacher trainees vow to remain unemployed over licensing exams [Audio]

Some teacher trainees say they are prepared to go hungry rather than write a licensing examination to guarantee them employment.A group calling itself Friends...

SMASCO: An example of a school needing intensive care

Abandoned projects, completely deteriorated roads, bushy environs and dormitories invaded by bed bugs are the sights that greet you when you step feet at...

MP urges Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools

The Member of Parliament for Bekwai constituency, Joseph Osei Owusu has entreated the Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools instead of...

GES to recruit over 8,000 teachers for double track system

The Ghana Education Service has begun processes to recruit over 8,000 graduate teachers for the double track system in various senior high schools.Head of...

Coalition of Concern Teachers gives gov’t October deadline

The Coalition of Concern Teachers (CCT) Ghana is calling on government to address issues of salary arrears owed to over 42,000 of its members are cleared...

From village icon to global acclaim, the story of a soaring young Ghanaian

It’s no mean feat to be recognized by the most powerful countries in the world and the most influential leaders especially when you are...

Akufo-Addo applauds renaming Ho Technical University after Ephraim Amu

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the decision by the Governing Council of the Ho Technical University to rename the institution after the great Ghanaian cultural icon,...

2018 BECE: 83 results cancelled, 2,061 withheld

The entire results of 83 candidates who wrote the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) have been cancelled.That is according to the examination body...

PHOTO: KNUST’s single-sex halls begin intake of female students

Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have today commenced intake of female students in all three single-sex halls in...

7000 teachers quit annually – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has expressed concern over the high attrition rate of teachers from the teaching service saying it is...

Gov’t committed to building society of inclusion – President Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the commitment of his government to pursuing goals and policies that ensure the...

Gov’t urged to pay attention to promotion of adult education

Government is being urged to pay equal attention to promoting adult education as it is doing for Free Senior High School. Country Director for Engage...