Education

Misappropriation of Funds” NASPA Ashanti Executives Given 7 days Ultimatum

1,621  The Ashanti Regional National Service Personnel Association (Naspa) has taken legal demand for accountability from the previous 2021/2022 executive led by Samuel Afoakwa Boateng known publicly as Sam-Seth. Through their lawyers, the secretariat has raised concerns regarding financial transactions and the lack of transparency exhibited by their predecessors and has given them an ultimatum […]

Education

Guidance and counselling professionals are given courses to teach instead of doing their work – Psychologist

1,275  A psychologist is worried about the redundancy of guidance and counselling professionals in various educational institutions. According to Dr Collins Badu Agyemang, these professionals are unable to perform their duties because they are sometimes given courses to teach. This, he says has made solving adolescent mental health issues challenging. “You go to many of […]

Education

Excellence Awards: Tamale Technical DASA visits Northern Regional Minister, prominent chiefs

1,706  The Tamale Technical University branch of the Dagbon Student’s Association has paid a courtesy call on the Northern regional Minister to seek his blessings and officially inform him about the Association maiden Excellence Awards/Miss DASA ahead of time. President of the Association, H.E Fuseini Hassan Nantogma explained the concept of the schame to the […]

Education

National Service Scheme monthly allowance increased from GH¢559 to GH¢715

4,343  The management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has successfully obtained government approval for an upward adjustment of the monthly allowances provided to National Service Personnel. The adjustment raises the allowance from GH¢559.04 to GH¢715.57, and this change is set to take effect from January 2023. The NSS in a statement signed by Ambrose […]

Education

Industrial action looms in Bolga Technical University over end of service benefits

1,507  The Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) Branch of the Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG), has hinted at plans to embark on an industrial action effective July 31, 2023. Citi News can confirm that the TUTAG-BTU branch’s intended strike action is due to the fact that efforts to get the university’s management to implement […]

Education

250 second-cycle institutions to contest in the 2023 edition of the National STEMNNOVATION project

1,762  A total of two hundred and fifty-second cycle institutions in the country have registered to participate in the 2023 edition of the National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project competition dubbed “STEMNNOVATION”. The competition officially starts with the submission of project videos from all contesting institutions nationwide on 25th to 29th September 2023 […]

Education

Mid-year budget review: Increase capitation grant for basic schools – Eduwatch

1,751  Ahead of the presentation of the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Supplementary Estimates for the 2023 Financial Year to Parliament, the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (EduWatch), Mr. Kofi Asare, is urging government to announce a 100% increment in the Capitation Grant for basic schools across the country. This, he explains, […]

Education

Education Strategic Plan (ESP 2018-2030) impacting positively on Ghana’s education-Prof Appiah

2,229  The Director General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NACCA), Prof. Edward Appiah, has hinted that the nation’s Education Strategic Plan (ESP 2018-2030), is gradually transforming the nation’s education. He stated that the ESP is not only leading to the training of 21st-century skills for students but also shaping the teaching and […]