1,939The Conference of Heads of Basic Schools (COHBS) in the Bawku municipality in the Upper East Region has called for the immediate closure of basic schools in the area. This follows the recent ban on the riding of tricycles, popularly referred to as “yellow yellow”, a common means of transportation in the area, by the […]
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Check Out the country that does not experience night
2,123Have you ever wondered if there is a country or a place where there is not night?. Yes there is a country that does not experience nights and I would like to share it with you. Between Greenland and north atlantic ocean there is a country called Iceland and in this country there is no […]
Government to distribute French textbooks to schools next academic year- Rev. Ntim Fordjour
2,309 The Government through the Education Ministry would from next academic year distribute French textbooks to all the 50 bilingual schools in the country. A total of 2000 students in the 50 schools nationwide serving as bilingual pilot schools are expected to benefit from the textbook distribution exercise. The Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John […]
Dr. Adutwum signs the book of condolence in memory of Queen Elizabeth II
1,780 The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, on Wednesday afternoon, signed the book of condolence in memory of Queen Elizabeth II at the United Kingdom Embassy here in Accra. The Minister who was accompanied by a delegation from the Education Ministry after the signing remarked that “Her life and service to humanity would forever […]
Second batch of payment to No Guarantor applicants released
1,968 The Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) on Tuesday released a total of eleven million, two hundred thousand cedis (Gh11.2 Million) as loans to some students in tertiary institutions in the country. A total of 10,000 students from 182 tertiary institutions across the country are to benefit from the amount which has been released to […]
Kumasi North Startup Pitch Summit
2,686 Women’s Haven Africa in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab under the Pathways to Sustainable Employment Program is organizing a Local Startup Summit on the theme: Data Science for Sustainable Business Development and Job Creation in the Kumasi Ecosystem. Women’s Haven Africa over the period of 6 weeks has trained 30 young women in Digital […]
102 KNUST Students Get Scholarship From Hulede Foundation
3,208 US-BASED Ghanaian Non-governmental organisation, Hulede Foundation, has offered scholarships to over 102 students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. The scholarship project is the Hulede Foundation’s flagship programme set up by the Hulede family in honour of their late father, the first manager of the KNUST Printing Press. […]
Frantic efforts are being made to educate out-of-school children in the country
1,920 The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced that a frantic effort was being made to educate thousands of out-of-school children in the country. He mentioned the Ghana Education Outcomes Project (GEOP) which seeks to ensure the training and reintegration of out-of-school children as well as improving learning outcomes in the project schools […]
Education Ministry receives 3.7 million textbooks from USAID
2,070 The Ministry of Education has taken delivery of over 3.7 million English teaching and learning textbooks from the United State Agency for International Development (USAID) to enhance effective teaching and learning in the country. The books, which are part of the Transition to English (T2E) programme of the USAID Partnership for Education Learning initiative […]
TVET enrolment to hit 100,000 by 2025
2,199 Enrolment into tertiary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in the country to hit 100,000 by 2025 as against the current 62,000 after the completion of the ongoing construction works for seven TVET colleges to boost skills acquisition of artisans and learning of TVET courses at the tertiary education space. The Minister […]