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102 KNUST Students Get Scholarship From Hulede Foundation 

1,487  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. […]

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Frantic efforts are being made to educate out-of-school children in the country

748  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 […]

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Auditor’s General Report: Tempane District Assembly lavished GHc 27, 201.00 on DCE’s Bungalow renovation

985According to the 2021 Auditors General report, it has been revealed that the Tempane District Assembly made a payment of GH¢27,201.00 to a contractor in charge of the renovation of the Temapne District Chief Executive Bungalow at Kugrago, for no work done. The report says, “Regulation 78 of the Public Financial Management Regulations, 2019 (L.I.2378) […]

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Electoral Commission Is Boiling; Over 20 Officers Likely To Be Interdicted

834The affected officers are likely to be interdicted based on the laws governing the declaration of assets before occupying such positions. Not only that, the 21 officers refused to prove themselves clean with Police clearance. Per the laws of Ghana, they were expected to present a Police report declaring them free of any criminal record. […]

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Education Ministry receives 3.7 million textbooks from USAID

879  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 […]

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TVET enrolment to hit 100,000 by 2025

935  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 […]

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Hon Ursula Owusu-Ekuful writes

1,009  The Government of Ghana, through the Ministries of Communications and Digitalisation, and Trade and Industries, officially launched the AfCFTA Hub earlier today. The purpose of the AfCFTA Hub is to ensure that, in our quest to export our ICT goods and services across Africa and beyond, Ghanaian businesses have a trusted profile outside of […]