Education

2,422  The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS),has released PIN Codes for a total of 12,594 eligible final year Ghanaian Nursing Trainees from 107 accredited Nursing Training Institutions in the country to enable them enroll to do their national service for the 2023/2024 service year. This was contained in a statement dated Friday,26th May,2023 […]

2,722  The Punch Newspaper can say on record that authorities of Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI)in the Ashanti Region have sacked over seven hundred (700)students for failing to attend Assembly today. Speaking to some of the students this afternoon they confirmed that authorities have asked them to go home with their bags and chop box and […]

2,045  The Deputy Education Minister, John Ntim Fordjour, has sternly condemned Excellence Publications for publishing a textbook that vilifies content on Christianity. In a tweet on Thursday, Mr Fordjour who doubles as MP for Assin South described the content in the textbook titled ‘History of Ghana for Basic Schools’, as obnoxious and misconceived. While condemning […]

1,616  Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, says he doubts government will ever review the Free Senior High School programme. According to him, the government has given no indication of doing so despite pressure from the International Monetary Fund to review the programme as part of its objectives to strengthen fiscal policy. In […]

1,661    The Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has announced that a frantic effort was being made by the government of Ghana towards increasing the number of Ghanaians who speak and or write the French language in the country. He explained that the Education Ministry has since 2017 embarked on an ambitious […]

2,325  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has described government’s flagship Free SHS Senior High School (SHS) programme as poorly targeted. The Fund made this observation in its latest country report on Ghana, whose request for a $3 billion bailout it recently approved. According to the report, the Free SHS programme “which covers the full cost […]

1,880  Jonathan Costa, West Africa Managing Director for Neuce Paints has assured the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah that his outfit would as part of its partnership with the hospital supply adequate paints needed for the painting of the Nurses’ block and the entire walls of KATH. […]

1,672  The National Teaching Council (NTC) has commenced the issuance of licenses to newly qualified teachers and teachers who have been exempted from the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) nationwide. The exercise which started on 15th May 2023 would end on 14th June 2023 and would see 19,484 teachers receiving their License. Dr Christian Addai-Poku, […]

1,910Mr Francis Pata Yata, Headmaster of Nkawie Senior High Technical School in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality is set to go on retirement on 31ST May,2023. Management of the school is set to organize a gargantuan ceremony at the school premises to officially celebrate him for his hard work and sacrifice towards the development of […]

1,905The Member of Parliament for Hohoe, John Peter Amewu, has commissioned a new school building named Santa Esther Girls’ Senior High School for the people of Wli, a community in the Hohoe Municipality. The school building, which is a modern and well-equipped facility for girls, was constructed with the aim of providing quality education for […]