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‘Sack free SHS students because of PTA dues and see where power lies’-NAPO to headmasters

1,555The Minister for Education, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh has given a strong warning that any headmaster who will prevent a student from enjoying the government’s free Senior High School policy because of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) dues will be sacked. The PTA dues, he indicated cannot prevent a student from enjoying the free SHS policy due to […]

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Double track implementation was necessary for free SHS success-NAPO

2,805Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said the implementation of the double-track system in 2018 in Senior High Schools was necessary to ensure the success of the President’s vision of Free SHS. According to a press release issued by the Public Relations Office of the Education Ministry, Dr Prempeh made this justification about the […]

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Thousand of pupils sat for BECE in Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality

1,243 Being the main examination to qualify basic school pupils for admission into the Senior High, Vocational and Technical Schools, four thousand three Hundred and seventy Eight (4378) pupils from the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality in the Western Region   sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Exams (B E C E).  These numbers are made up […]

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Afigya Kwabre South District Lauded For Honouring Social Cooperate Responsibility

1,374  Hon Williams Owuraku Aidoo, Deputy Minister of Energy and  Member of Parliament  for Afigya Kwabere South Constituency in the Ashanti region has commended the Northern Quarries Association under a thematic unit of Afigya Kwabere South District Quarries Fund for their support towards the nation development in areas of education, security and health to augment […]

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Obaa Sima Of Fox Fm donates to BECE Candidates, promises free provisions for best ten pupils

1,374 Hon. Mavis Opoku Afriyie, Assembly member for Asuoyeboah south electoral area in the Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti region has donated  educational materials worth hundred of Ghana cedis to BECE Candidates. Hon.Mavis Opoku Afriyie, popularly known as Obaa Sima is also a radio newscaster  with Kumasi based ,Fox fm. Items donated to  the Asuoyeboah […]

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Trained Teachers To Enjoy Automatic Employment Without National Service Under Mahama’s Second Coming

1,363  A member of the NDC’s manifesto committee Prof. George K.T Oduro says trained teachers under the second coming of his Excellency John Dramani Mahama will enjoy automatic employment without doing national service. Again, teachers under Mahama as a president will be supported to own their cars and houses ,this he believes will reduce the […]

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The pillar for free SHS has been the controversial double track system-Educationist

1,563    Educationist and Governance Analyst, Mr. George Akom has stated that the successful implementation of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) in Ghana was successful because of the controversial double track system which was introduced. He continued that considering the number of students that qualified to be enrolled into the various secondary schools relative […]

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Education ministry never engaged private schools on free shs extension

1,282The Ministry of Education says that it has never engaged with private schools to discuss how to facilitate the extension of the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) to such schools. According to the ministry, the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh in his engagements with the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) […]