Education

2,337The attention of the Ministry of Education has been drawn to recent media discussions concerning a purported ongoing review of the Free SHS policy by the Ghana Education Service (GES). For purposes of clarity, the Ministry states unequivocally, that the FREE SHS POLICY is NOT under review. In September of 2017, the Government of Ghana […]

2,459  The Deputy Minister for Education, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, has announced that the distribution of textbooks to all Basic Schools in the country is ongoing. He explained that with the current state of affairs if all the printers comply with the timelines assigned to them, all regions and districts in the country would have […]

1,894  The Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) has marked the 2022 edition of the world youth skills day with various activities. Some of the activities undertaken to commemorate the day include panel discussions on challenges confronting the youth in the acquisition of employable skills and an exhibition of works by some […]

2,271  The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has challenged the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana (CIBG) to strive to ensure that the country’s banking sector becomes globally competitive in its pursuit of higher banking services in the country. “You need to put in place prudent strategies and measures to […]

1,984  Ghana at the verge of attaining gender parity between boys and girls at the SHS level. The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, who announced this explained that this would mean that the number of girls in SHS in the country would be equal to that of boys as against the previous whereby boys […]

2,210 Past Students of Kumasi Academy ( AKUNINI) in the Ashanti Region have  commissioned an ultra modern Science laboratory for the school. In an interview with the press, the National President of AKUNINI Past Students Association, Dr. Kwabena Dapaa Siakwan stated that the 9.6 billion laboratory facility was constructed by the past students through contributions […]

2,164  The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has challenged Ghanaian students not to limit themselves in what they can do and rather go all out in their bid to study hard. He explained that once they set out to study so hard, there was no way they could limit themselves in what they could […]

1,857  The Executive Director of African Education Watch (Eduwatch), Mr Kofi Asare, has advised Ghanaians not to blame the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, for the seeming food shortages in some Senior High Schools (SHS) in the country. According to him, the current food shortage challenges were a result of the Ministry of Finance […]

2,542  The Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) on Friday released a total of Gh12 million cedis as loans to students in tertiary institutions across the country. A total of 10,000 students from 148 tertiary institutions in the country benefitted from this release which is the first payment being made after the official launching of the […]

2,627  KNUST SRC Parliament Council is set to probe further into the School Representative Council’s Executives trip to South Africa. The School’s Parliament Council was petitioned by leaders of Coalition of Concerned Students, KNUST, to provide immediate investigation into the SRC Executives travel to South Africa in somewhere July,2022. In  response to the petition signed […]