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...
‘Exclude ministers, MPs from Free SHS’
A member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has suggested that the Free SHS policy can be successfully targeted...
Rescind your decision on Halls’ Conversion or face our wrath – Katanga boys warn [AUDIO]
Students of Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have warned authorities of the school to rescind the decision...
Conversion of halls senseless, we’ll fight it – Kantanga Alumni
Alumni of the University Hall popularly referred to as Katanga at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), say they will fight...
Ghana needs sober deliberations on free SHS – Otumfuo
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for sober deliberations and frank discussions on the implementation of the free senior high school education...
KNUST converts Katanga, 5 others to mixed halls
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has converted all of its six traditional halls into mixed ones.The halls – Katanga, Unity,...
Consul of Ghana to Italy provides financial support for school children
The Honorary Consul of Ghana to Italy, Massimiliano C Taricone has fully funded a project initiated by a 25 year old volunteer from Pistoia...
Free SHS increases interest in BECE resit
The introduction of the free Senior High School policy has shot up interest in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) resit as 11,000 pupils sat...