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“Extra curricular won’t suffer” – Education Minister assures

The Minister for education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has allayed fears ongoing reforms in the second cycle education level will affect extra curricula activities...

T.I AMASS are champions of maiden Luv FM High School debate

T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School are champions of the maiden edition of the Luv FM High School Debate which has just ended after gruelling...

Removing ‘old’ lecturers from payroll will kill Universities – UTAG

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has described as unfortunate government’s move to take off all lectures above 65 years from its payroll.The...

Audio: Fear grips Akumadan SHS over rituals on school land

Teachers and students of Akumadan Senior High School in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti Region have expressed fears over rituals performed on...

Prempeh College suspends 14 students for breaking bounds

Prempeh College in Kumasi has handed a two-week suspension to 14 students for leaving campus without authorization.The students were said to have sneaked out...

GNAT appeals to MMDAs to construct teachers’ bungalows

The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to construct teachers’ bungalows in deprived communities to solve the residential accommodation problems facing...

Balungu-Nabiisi School pupils learn on bare floor

Most pupils at the Balungu-Nabiisi School in the Bongo District sit on bare floor to learn due to lack of furniture.A Ghana News Agency...

GES storekeeper caught stealing free school uniforms

Residents of Bolgatanga were struck with a raw shock on Saturday when the Upper East Regional Storekeeper of the Ghana Education Service (GES) was...

Obuasi SHTS scandal: “GES official coached me to deny sexual assault story”

The 17-year old girl who is a victim of an alleged sexual assault at Obuasi Senior High Technical School in the Ashanti region has...

Obuasi Sec Tech sex scandal – MP vows to crack the whip

Member of Parliament for Obuasi East, Hon. Dr Patrick Boakye-Yiadom has vowed to seek justice for a 17-year-old girl who has been allegedly molested...

Photos: More ‘schools under trees’ spring up in Tatale – Sanguli

Students of Bikpajaba D/A Junior High School in the Tatale - Sanguli District of the Northern region are forced to study under trees after...

Why UPSA dismissed 3 lecturers

Three lecturers of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) have been dismissed for allegedly soliciting for sex from some female students.The dismissed lecturers...

Ministry rubbishes claims of cancelling Double Track

The Ministry of Education has dismissed media reports that it has cancelled the double track policy in some schools in the Northern due to...

Wa East GES rescues six pregnant girls forced into marriage

The Ghana Education Service (GES) in Wa East District has set free six pregnant teenage girls forced into marriage and handed them over to...

World Teachers’ Day: Defilement, lack of recognition undermining teaching profession – Educationist

Renowned educationist, Isaac K. Gyasi, has cautioned teachers against indecent behaviours such as defilement, rape and others which are undermining the noble profession.He made...

GES cuts down subjects of study in basics schools to 4

The Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, Michael Nsowah has revealed that only four subjects will be studied at the basic education...

GES begins process to reduce subjects at primary, JHS levels

Basic schools in the country could study lesser number of subjects from the next academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has hinted.It said...

Father joins son in class five

A 41-year old father of seven, Moses Ahlidza, has gone back to school and joined his second child in class five.The fisherman told the...

AUCC Appoints Director for new School of Creative Arts

The African University College of Communications (AUCC) has appointed Dr. Kwesi Owusu of Creative Storm fame as the Director of the Creative Arts School.Dr....

More pregnant girls write BECE in Brong-Ahafo Region in 2018

A total of 138 pregnant girls wrote this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Brong-Ahafo Region, statistics from the Regional Girl Child...

Hweehwee RC teachers, students engage in open defecation

Both teachers and students of Wheewhee Roman Catholic Junior High School (JHS) in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region engage in open...

Agogo State College shut down ; 22 students arrested over protest

Some 22 students of the Agogo State College in the Asante Akim North District of the Ashanti region, have been arrested by police.The number,...

Govt urges failed BECE candidates to be re-admitted to JHS

Following government’s recent payment of resit examinations for failed students, the government has urged the 31,196 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who failed...

British Boarding School Expo Ghana begins October 18

Everything Education, one of UK’s leading education brokers is organizing this year’s British Boarding School Expo Ghana (BBSE).The three-day event which begins on October...

Accra Technical University, AMA sign MOU to improve city

The Accra Technical University (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to undertake joint researches and projects to...

Church building turns classroom for pupils of Gbawe Methodist Primary

A dilapidated building of the Methodist Church has come to the rescue of pupils of Gbawe Methodist '1' Basic school where two classes -...

Fire guts Biriwa NVTI girls’ hostel, 240 students affected

A ravaging fire on Thursday morning swept through most parts of the girls hostel of the Biriwa National Vocational Training Institute and Rehabilitation Center...

Fire guts Biriwa NVTI girls’ hostel, 240 students affected

A ravaging fire on Thursday morning swept through most parts of the girls' hostel of the Biriwa National Vocational Training Institute and Rehabilitation Center in...

MCE charges teachers to support children to excel academically

The Municipal Chief Executive for Asante Akim Central, Susan Akomea has asked teachers to show compassion for school children and handle them with all...

4 female residents of Unity Hall sanctioned for accommodating male student

Halls of residence at tertiary institutions are known to be places where students have the absolute freedom to move around at any time, but...

School feeding settles all arrears to caterers

The Greater Accra Regional Coordinator of school feeding programme, Christiana-Lovia Nkansah, says the secretariat has settled all arrears to caterers.A third of the number...

Bryan Acheampong Foundation supports over 14,000 pupils from 115 basic schools

FOURTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX pupils FROM 115 basic schools in Kwahu East have received free  uniforms from Bryan Acheampong Foundation as...

Atuguba suspects ‘unseen’ political manipulation in UEW troubles

Prof Raymond Atuguba has revealed that he withdrew his legal representation of former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba because he had reason...

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,...