Education

1,024  The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has rejected the government’s new proposed debt restructuring offer, which includes pension funds. The Association, in a release issued on April 17, maintains its earlier resistant stance during the implementation of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. President of UTAG, Prof Solomon Nunoo “The NEC of UTAG held […]

1,176  Builsa South MP Dr Clement Abass Apaak says the Ghana Education Service (GES)’s interdiction of the headmaster of Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) is unnecessary. He said the decision over the alleged conversion of a toilet facility into a residential accommodation was a bit rushed. According to the Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education […]

1,183  Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is investigating a video on social media in which some students at Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) in Tamale, are using toilet cubicles as dormitories. According to a statement issued dated April 16, the Regional Director of Education has asked both the head and senior housemaster to step […]

1,299  The Registrar of the National Teaching Council (NTC), Dr Christian Addai-Poku, has hinted that teacher reforms in Ghana have now become a model for many African countries. This, according to him is proven by the visitors it has been receiving from other countries to study what the NTC has been doing. Dr Addai-Poku announced […]

2,014  The Ghana School Feeding Secretariat is urging school feeding caterers to reconsider their decision to withdraw their services while the government works to ensure the release of funds for the payment of their arrears. Some caterers in the Ashanti Region participating in the government’s school feeding program went on strike on Tuesday, April 4, […]

1,082  The Chairman of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Professor Ato Essuman, has said that the free Senior High Schools (SHS) programme is inadequately funded, something which has become a major challenge to most schools. According to him, financing of SHS in the country has become political and this could inadvertently affect the development […]

1,211  A freshly graduated medical doctor from the University of Cape Coast, Nathaniel Nii Cudjoe, held the audience at the congregation spellbound when he took the Best Student in Anatomy award, and for 15 consecutive times, his name was mentioned to pick other awards. Dr Cudjoe swept 16 out of the 22 awards at the […]

1,197  KNUST MANAGEMENT has written officially to exonerate the former President of the KNUST SRC, Mr. Michael Abuah, and former Speaker of the KNUST SRC Parliamentary Council, Mr. Andrew Anokye Kyeremateng, the vice-president, Reginald Amo Yeboah, and Financial Secretary, Derek Dadzie after series of investigations over allegations of misappropriation of funds by the Disciplinary Committee […]

1,136A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has called on the government to grant senior high schools (SHSs) some level of autonomy to help improve education in the country. Such autonomy, he said, would give the schools the authority to mobilise funds to complement what the government provided for education, […]

1,249The Royal Ann College of Health TESCON branch in Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency in the Ashanti Region has held its maiden general meeting at the school’s main auditorium. It was an awesome and unforgettable political experience for the young students as Mr. John Kwame Duodu popularly known in political circles as Sir John anchored the […]