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800 continuing SHS, Tertiary students in Tarkwa-Nsuaem get scholarship

The Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem, George Mireku Duker, has obtained a scholarship for 800 continuing Senior High School and tertiary students within his...

Science & Maths Quiz mistress to get NSBE’s 2018 Golden Torch award

Ghana’s renowned quiz mistress, Dr Elsie A. B. Effah Kaufmann will be awarded the 2018 Golden Torch Award for International Academic Leadership in the...

9 teachers indicted over Ejisuman SHS sex scandal

At least nine teachers at the Ejisuman Senior High School (SHS) have been interdicted following alleged sexual abuse of female students. The Ghana Education Service...

Education Ministry wants police to investigate teachers sexually abusing students

The education ministry is calling for a change in existing policy that allows the Ghana Education Service to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of...

Lecturer floors Kwesi Pratt for claiming KNUST can’t make solar panels

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Richard Tia, has responded to the...

WAEC introduces CCTVs, metal detectors to check exam malpractices

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has introduced additional measures to deal with examination malpractices in the country. The measures include the use of composite...

Return mission schools to churches – gov’t urged

Very Reverend Samuel Kwaku Opoku, the Superintendent Minister of the Ebenezer Methodist Church, Bantama, has called on the government to return mission schools to...

Teachers urge speed up of bill on maternity leave extension

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has appealed to the Ministry of Gender, Women and Social Protection to speed up the process of...

NIIT supports ICT teacher who drew computer interface on board

The ingenuity of an ICT teacher who, in the absence of a computer, draws the modern communication device on a blackboard for lessons is...

Commonwealth Hall authorities warned against attempts to ‘kill vandalism’

Newly elected Brong Ahafo Regional President of the Old Vandals Association (OVA) Vandal Gabriel Apae-Nyelom has ‘warned’ hall authorities of the Commonwealth Hall of...

Female teachers urged to expose male teachers guilty of sexually abusing girls

Female teachers have been challenged to be courageous and stamp their authority to expose their male counterparts who sexually abuse young school girls. Mrs Juliet...

KNUST reviewing academic curricula

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is reviewing its academic curricula and research programmes to meet the current socio-economic needs of...

Rector of Cape Coast Polytechnic suspended

The Rector of the Cape Coast Polytechnic, Prof. Lawrence Atepor, has been suspended with immediate effect over allegations of impropriety. A letter signed by the...

Education Ministry to hand Ejisuman teachers for prosecution if…

The Education Ministry says it will handover for prosecution any teacher found guilty by a seven-member committee set up to investigate allegations of sexual...

Technical Universities threaten strike over plans to strip them of autonomy

Technical Universities in the country are likely to embark on a sit down strike from Thursday over what they believe is discrimination against them. Chairman...

Chief threatens to leak sex tapes

Nkosohene of Ejisu Traditional Council, Nana Kofi Opoku, has threatened to release sex tapes of teachers in Ejisuman Senior High School (SHS) having sex...

WAEC moves WASSCE to April to aid students’ preparations

Final year SHS students will henceforth write the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in April. Speaking today at a seminar for...

Ghana urged diversify educational system for rapid growth

President of Open University, Malaysia (OUM), Professor Dato Mansor Fadzil, has called for diversification of Ghana’s educational sector to enhance quality and affordability. Speaking in...

AUDIO: Minister transfers teachers at Bolga Nursing Training School

Some teachers at the Bolgatanga Nursing Training College in the Upper East Region have been transferred after a fallout with the Ministry of Health...

President warns rogue headmasters

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned all heads of senior high schools (SHS) in the country not to charge unapproved fees under the...

Napo assures NAGRAT of payment of arrears

Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has assured the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) of prompt payment of its GH₵50 million arrears. According to...

Free SHS funding proposal lacks clarity – SEND-Ghana tells gov't

Government has been advised to establish a strong financial sustainability plan that would enable it to progress with the implementation of the Free Senior...

AirtelTigo gives to Adaklu Salvation Army and Tupaa MA Basic Schools

With laughter and good cheer, pupils and teachers of Adaklu Abuadi Salvation Army School and Tupaa MA Basic School in the Volta and Greater...

Government secures $40m from World Bank to support free SHS

The government of Ghana, under the Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP), has negotiated an additional $40m from the World Bank to support the Free...

Wa East: Education Directorate rescues brilliant girl from child marriage

The Wa East District Education Directorate and the Ghana Police service have rescued Ms Gladys Bassah, a 17-year-old Junior High School graduate from being given...

Nyinsen Ne Awo) enters the labor ward with Regina

Radio reality show, Nyinsen Ne awo) enters the labor ward with Regina as she delivers her first child. Regina is a pregnant woman standing in for...

Free SHS has come to stay – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has indicated that the free Senior High School programme has come to stay. “The Free SHS is a start towards...

9,000 pupils receive learning materials, others for smooth academic activities

A total of 9000 pupils in various basic schools in eight districts in the Northern and Volta Regions have each received at least eight...

Community turns Antoabasa M/A classrooms into toilet facility

The Assin Antoabasa M/A Basic School in the Assin North municipality of the Central region has been closed down as their classrooms have turned...

Do not destroy reputation of teachers – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has cautioned the public to desist from creating stories that are meant to destroy the reputation of...

Mathematics teachers urged to accept postings to basic schools

A Retired District Director of Education for Bongo in the Upper East Region, Francis Adjei, has tasked mathematics teachers to accept postings to basic...

President offers scholarship to student of Ocanseykope Basic School

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, fulfilled a promise he made to Anita Gyan, a young talented student who caught his attention with...

Ecobank partners GPE to boost education in Africa

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of the leading pan-African financial institution, has been selected as a private sector ‘partner of choice’ by...

Wa: Pupils learn under trees after contractor abandons school project

The construction of a six-unit classroom block and a teachers' bungalow for Tousa L/A Primary School awarded on contract in 2011 has been abandoned,...

Free SHS will move the nation forward – Mark Okraku Mantey

Programmes Director of Hitz FM and CEO of Slip Music, Mark Okraku Mantey, says the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) education...

PHOTOS: Virgin Pastor, Alexymends foundation donates 2,500 exercise books to support education

Apostle Job Antwi, popularly known as the Virgin Pastor has donated 2,500 exercise books to pupils in Barekese in the Ashanti region of Ghana. According...

Education Ministry unhappy over increasing student rioting

The Ministry of Education is blaming lack of proper communication channels in schools for the increasing student rioting in the country. Sector Deputy Minister, Dr....

Don’t leave Free SHS implementation on gov’t alone – Parents urged

National Programme Coordinator of SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, George Yaw Boateng, has called on parents to support the government with the implementation of the...

You can pass your exams without offering sex to teachers – Deputy Minister

Deputy Minister in charge of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has advised young ladies in the senior high school to be vigilant...

Govt shifts Free SHS burden to Scholarship Secretariat

The government has shifted the cost burden of the direct funding of its free senior high school (SHS) programme to the Scholarship Secretariat. Consequently, the...