Education

1,894  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 […]

1,969    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 […]

2,602  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 […]

2,252  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. […]

1,943  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, […]

2,170Mr 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 […]

2,337The 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 […]

1,876The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has issued a warning to residents in the Volta and Oti Regions against engaging in fuel smuggling to Togo. The authority has emphasised the dangers of this illegal activity and urged citizens to avoid participating in it. Fuel smuggling has become a significant issue in the region, with many people […]

2,402Janet Asibi is a 25-year-old Ghanaian professional teacher at Aboabo Presby Primary School at Akim Oda in the Eastern Region of Ghana. She is passionate about seeing every child in school, hence does not want lack of school uniform to be a hindrance. Affectionately known as “Ama Val the Sewing Teacher”, she uses her own […]