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372,780 students successfully placed by the Computerized School Placement System

748  The Ghana Education Service and the Ghana TVET Service on Wednesday released this year’s Computerized School Placement exercise with a total of 372,780 representing 69.24 per cent successfully placed out of the 538,399 candidates who qualified to be placed. However, 165, 619 qualified candidates representing 30.76 per cent who could not be matched with […]

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Extend reporting date for SHS 1 students – Nortsu-Kotoe urges GES

734  Ranking Member on the Education Committee in Parliament, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to extend the February 20 reporting date for freshers into Senior High Schools nationwide. The Akatsi North lawmaker argued that parents will be financially stressed should the government decide to go ahead with such a short […]

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It is unfair to say government has neglected basic schools – Education Ministry

1,139  Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Education Ministry, Yaw Mensah Opoku, says the manner in which the government is being portrayed in regard to education infrastructure challenges in basic schools is unjust. According to him, government was making several interventions to help resolve challenges facing some primary schools in the country, such as portrayed […]

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Headmaster Donates GHC3,000 Worth Of Educational Resources To Needy Children In Afedzi D/A Primary

653  Ghanaian headmaster of Afedzi D/A Primary School who double as 2020 Twifo Atti-Morkwa overall district best farmer and chief executive officer (CEO) of Show Bouy’s Farms, Mr. Isaac Agyiri popularly know as Show Boy has donated educational resources worth GHC 3,000 to pupils at Afedzi D/A Primary School in Twifo Atti-Morkwa district in the […]

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Sack all public basic school teachers and start afresh – Prof. Adei suggests

1,054  Former Director-General and Rector of GIMPA, Professor Stephen Adei, says his revolutionary strategy to transforming the poor performance of public basic schools in Ghana is to simply sack all the teaching staff. He noted that the lack of active supervision in public basic schools have resulted in highly qualified teachers not pulling their weight […]

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Shocking:About 2.3 million kids in Ghana have no desk at school – EduWatch

754  There are about 2.3 million children in Ghana’s public basic schools, who lack desks, according to education think tank, Africa Educational Watch (EduWatch). Africa Education Watch disclosed this in an alert dated February 6, 2023. It quoted the Ministry of Education’s data that indicated that by 2021, about 596,000 KG pupils, representing half of […]

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ASHANTI NSS LAUNCHES ACCOUNTING AID MODULE FOR SMEs…ORIENTATES 200 PERSONS FOR POSTS.

1,045  The Ashanti Regional branch of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) on Wednesday organized an orientation forum for 200 national service persons (NSPs) who would be sent out to help Small and Medium Scale Enterprises with accounting services in the region. This new module is a new initiative set out by the Executive Director of […]