Education

1,467  Opoku Ware Senior High School (OWASS) has defeated their archrivals, Prempeh College, to book a place at the grand finale of the 2023 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ). The ‘Santasi Boys’ nicknamed Akatakyie, defeated the ‘Sofoline Boys’ known as ‘Amanfoɔ‘ along with Pope John Minor Seminary SHS in the second semi-finale of the […]

1,931  The outgoing Country Representative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Mr Abdourahamane Diollo, has been honoured by the Ministry of Education for his role in the transformation of the country through education. He was presented with a gift and a citation read for him to appreciate the significant contribution of […]

2,799  Among the notable comers are Kumasi Senior High Technical School, located at Patase in the Ashanti Region, Wesley Girls’ SHS, who, after eight years, commenced their journey at the regional stage before advancing to the preliminaries. Mpraeso SHS also made a mark by prevailing over Ghana National in a revenge match. In a remarkable […]

3,954  The government has invested more than GH¢114.5 billion in the education sector since 2017, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed. Out of the amount, he said, GH¢12.96 billion had been spent on senior high schools. “At the senior high school alone, of which there are 925 schools, we have initiated a total of […]

1,495  The University of Ghana Management has served notice that it will be sacking students in the College of Applied Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of Humanities with a CGPA below 1.0. A notice from the school’s administration has ordered students to review their CGPA as soon as possible in order to […]

1,593  By GNA – The Government is taking steps to upgrade the National Service Scheme (NSS) into an Authority, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed. He said a draft policy was being prepared to that effect, and subsequently work to enact a law to back the proposed new status of the Scheme. This is […]

1,279    The 2022/23 batch of National Service Personnel (NSP) from the Ghana Grid Company LTD, (GRIDCo) has commissioned a 10,000-liter capacity water storage facility dubbed the “PRESTEA SPRING WATER PROJECT” at Prestea in the Western Region. This is an initiative of the GRIDCo NSPs which aligns with GRIDCo’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. With the […]

1,661  The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, on Friday launched the National Educational Leadership Institute (NELI) to provide specialized professional leadership and management development training for individuals holding or intending to hold leadership and management positions in institutions of learning across the country. A total of 400 leaders from all parts of the education […]

1,684  Management of the National Service Scheme,headed by Hon Osei Assibey Antwi,Executive Director ,has taken notice of concerns expressed by national service personnel regarding their unpaid allowances for September and arrears covering January to June, 2023 from the recent upward adjustments of their monthly allowances. Management wishes to assure service personnel that allowances for September, […]

1,612  A KUMASI-based Journalist, Simon Opoku Afriyie , has extended a helping hand to scores of children of school-going age at Manso Muawano in the Amansie south District of the Ashanti Region. Mr. Opoku Afriyie who is also Otec Fm news reporter and doubles as the Chief Executive Officer of choicenewsonline.com, presented exercise books, pens […]