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Parents poorly briefed on free SHS challenges – Baako wants govt to admit

Veteran journalist, Abdul-Malik Kwaku Baako, wants government to concede that it did not properly brief parents on the difficulties associated with its flagship education...

VIDEO: Respect teachers – Government told

Government has been urged to proceed with caution by consulting stakeholders in education before the roll out the double-track semester system in Senior High...

Free SHS: Get your enrollment data right – Ablakwa chides Gov’t

Former Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has asked the Akufo-Addo government to stop the deceit surrounding the discussion on the proposed two-track Senior...

SHS Double-Track System: Enough of the NDC, NPP politics – Opuni Frimpong

Former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has advised the two main political parties, the New Patriotic Party...

Double tracking system; a recipe for social crises – Dr Yielpieri

A senior research fellow at the University of Education, Winneba, Dr Daniel Yielpieri says “the disadvantages associated with double tracking system of the Free...

Akufo-Addo unhappy with Wa Poly’s delay to effect name change

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed unhappiness with Wa Polytechnic for the delay to change the institution’s name to Hilla Limann Polytechnic several...

Re-module Free SHS Policy – Government told

Acting Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Peter Anti Partey has urged to re-module the Free Senior High School (SHS), policy.Mr...

N/R: Free SHS beneficiaries sing Nana Addo’s praise

The first batch of beneficiaries of the Free SHS policy has commended the President for his foresight and the implementation of the policy.A representative...

Double-track system: Gov’t ready to accept criticisms

Government is ready to accept inputs and criticisms to make the proposed Double-track programme a success, Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum...

AUDIO: Make documents on double-tracking system policy public – Former Education Minister

 Former Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, has appealed to the government to, as a matter of urgency, make documents relating to...

Prof. Hinson appointed Rector of Perez University College

A chartered marketer, Professor Robert E. Hinson, has been appointed as a Consultant Rector of Perez University College.His appointment takes effect from August 1,...

KUMACA “85-year group cuts sod for Kumasi academy borehole project (video)

A sod cutting ceremony has been performed for the construction of a Mechanised Borehole for Kumasi Academy SHS at Asokore Mampong.The project which is...

Double tracking system: Shut up if you have no solution – Prof Adei to critics

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has asked those against the multi-track system expected...

VIDEO: ‘It is clever’; Prof Adei lauds double-track system for SHS

Veteran educationist, Professor Stephen Adei has lauded the multi-track system expected to be introduced into the Senior High School system in September.The Dean of...

Free SHS cause of decline in quality SHS education – Ablakwa

The Minority in Parliament is claiming there is a decline in the quality of secondary education following the introduction of the Free Senior High...

Disregard fake ranking of SHS schools – WAEC

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged the public to disregard a fake statement about the ranking of Ghanaian Senior High Schools (SHS)...

Damongo SHS teachers burn 300 phones belonging to students

There was heightened tension in the Damongo Senior High School (SHS) in the Northern Region when teachers seized and burnt 300 mobile phones belonging...

WAEC opens short notice registration for WASSCE Private Candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has opened a short notice registration for WASSCE for Private Candidates, from 17th to 31st July 2018 for...

Don’t bring your female wards to Unity Hall – Conti old boys warn parents

Alumni of Unity Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST) Old Continentals Association has threatened parents not to attempt bringing their...

Poor’ 2018 WASSCE a crisis for Ghana – Prof Asare

Law Professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare has described as a crisis the mass failure in the 2018 West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).According to...

Education Ministry to investigate ‘poor’ 2018 WASSCE results for Maths, English

The Ministry of Education says it will soon probe unsatisfactory results for Core Mathematics and English Language in the 2018 West Africa Senior Secondary...

KNUST sued over decision to convert Unity Hall

Alumni of Unity Hall of KNUST, Old Continentals Association and current Junior Common Room Executives, are seeking a court injunction restraining the university from...

‘Pidgin, short-hand’ cause of mass failure in English – WAEC

The Public Relations Officer of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Agnes Teye Cudjoe, says the 2018 WASSCE Chief Examiner's Report attributes the massive...

Over 190,000 SHS graduates to miss varsity due to failure in Mathematics

The massive perennial failures in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have been repeated as 193,882 candidates, representing 61.67% of all candidates...

WASSCE 2018: Candidates performed poorly in English & Maths

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says provisional results of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates show that performances...

WAEC releases WASSCE 2018 results, withholds results of 26,434 candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates.Meanwhile...

WAEC to appeal against High Court decision on 20 BECE students

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it will appeal against the decision of an Accra High Court ordering the Council to release the...

Court orders WAEC to pay Ghc100,000 for cancelling BECE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), says it will appeal against a ruling by an Accra High Court ordering it to pay GHC 100,000...

VIDEO: GES condemns caning of KSTS student by teacher

The Ghana Education Service has launched investigations into an incident at the Kumasi Secondary Technical School in which a housemaster of the school caned...

KNUST to introduce PhD Programme in Law

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has announced plans to commence a Doctorate...

High Court orders WAEC to release cancelled results of 20 BECE candidates

The West African Examination Council has been ordered by an Accra High Court to release the results of 20 candidates whose papers were cancelled...

Excessive homework and test for pupils irrelevant – Educationist

An  Education Director and Researcher, Peter Partey Anti, says excessive home works given out to pupils in pre-schools are irrelevant.This is because children need to relax...

8,000 fresh teachers for Free SHS

President Akufo-Addo says about 8,000 teachers will be recruited to teach the increasing number of beneficiaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s flagship...

ICT blackboard teacher gets $10,000 Master’s degree scholarship

The Ghanaian ICT teacher, Richard Akoto Appiah, who became a social media sensation after pictures of him drawing a diagram of Microsoft Word for...

NSMQ History: How it all started and the female dynamics

The first National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) was held in 1993 but prior to that, it was just an idea mooted on the...

NSMQ: Underdog status helped us win – PERSCO Headmaster (AUDIO)

The Headmaster of St. Peter's Senior High School, Matthias Kudiabor says Ghanaians should not underestimate the academic prowess of lesser-known second cycles schools in...

NSMQ: AUDIO: We were shocked but God knows best – ADISCO Headmaster

The Headmaster of Adisadel College, William Kusi-Yeboah, says though they are surprised at the outcome of the 2018 National Science and Maths Quiz, they...

AUDIO: Coats or dresses don’t win competitions – ADISCO headmaster fumes

The Headmaster of Adisadel College, William Kusi-Yeboah, has slammed people criticizing him for his style of dressing.Mr Kusi-Yeboah came under severe criticism for superintending...

NSMQ: Police officers protect quiz mistress’ handbag

Shortly after the end of the quiz and before the final scores were announced, uniformed Police officers were dispatched to vantage points in the...

NSMQ: Kennedy Agyapong gifts GHC10K to ADISCO reps

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has presented an amount of GHS10,000 to the representatives of his alma mater Adisadel College,...