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Anglogold Ashanti holds first trainee graduation

AngloGold Ashanti Limited (Ghana) has successfully graduated a batch of eight students from their first Graduate Trainee Programme and matriculated its second batch in...

WAEC sued!

Education Tink Tank, African Watch, has sued the West African Examination Council (WAEC) for engaging 'leaked identities' to mark the 2020 West Africa Senior...

2020 licensure exams to be held this day

This year’s Ghana Teacher Licensure Examinations (GTLE) is scheduled to be held on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2. It will be the fourth...

Jackson College of Education holds 8th congregation

The Jackson College of Education (JCE), has held its 8th Congregation during which 1,027 students were graduated after successfully going through their respective programmes. The...

Govt supports three new universities with GH¢1.5 million, four vehicles each

Some three new universities in Ghana have received four vehicles each from the government to assist in their operational effectiveness. They are the SD Dombo...

KNUST appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor

The Council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has appointed Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo as Pro Vice-chancellor at its 260th meeting held...

Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education inducts 17th principals into office

Rev. Dr. Grace Sintim Adasi has assumed office as the 17th Principal of the Agogo Presbyterian Women's College of Education (APWCE) with a pledge...

Franklin Cudjoe warns Speaker over UEW award

Policy and Education think-tank, IMANI Ghana, has advised the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye against accepting honorary doctorate degree award from the...

Free SHS, good governance, jobs will win NPP 2020 polls – Napo

Apart from the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme, good governance and creation of jobs for the youth of this country...

School heads advocate for quarterly disinfection

Heads of both basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Ashanti Region have called on the government to consider factoring into the programmes...

Nine new model schools to be completed by end of 2020 – Education Minister

The Education Minister has assured President Nana Akufo-Addo, that the nine model schools being constructed by his government will be completed by the end...

Schools in Oti region benefit from 3rd disinfection exercise

Public and private basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Oti Region have benefited from the third phase of the on-going national disinfection...

57-year-old BECE graduate anchors news bulletin [Video]

A 57-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduate was a guest newsreader on the Real News show. Madam Elizabeth Yamoah, a mother-of-four, was among the...

Applications open for 2020 Kwame Nkrumah Creative Writing Workshop

The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) is currently accepting applications for the 2020 Kwame Nkrumah Creative Writing Workshop.  The Afro-Book Festival has said that the...

Basic, SHS schools in Bono, Ahafo regions disinfected

In preparation to receive form 2 students of both basic and Senior High Schools (SHSs) in October, the Ministry of Education (MoE), in collaboration...

Parents warned over SHS school placement [Video]

Officials of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have advised parents not to leave their wards' school placements in the hands of...

Rev. Dr Grace Sintim Adasi inducted into office as new Principal of Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education

Reverend Doctor (Mrs) Grace Sintim Adasi was on Friday inducted into office as the Principal of the Agogo Presbyterian Women's College of Education at...

Details of how CSSPS works and why students don’t get schools of choice [Read]

School selection processes by fresh graduates of Junior High Schools commenced Monday, September 21, 2020, and is scheduled to end October 31, 2020. Two officials...

Institution of Engineering and Technology inducts new members

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Ghana has inducted new members with a call on them to help enhance the image of the...

School reopening committee submits report

The 10-member committee, inaugurated to deliberate and advise on modalities for the re-opening of schools in the pre-tertiary sub-sector, has submitted its report. The committee...

Phase 3 of SHS disinfection exercise begins

The Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES), in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited have begun phase three of the national disinfection...

Beyi W’ano: Completion of Denkyira Esaase MA Primary School to cost GH¢ 350,000

The completion of the abandoned Denkyira Esaase Municipal Assembly (MA) Primary School is estimated to cost around GH¢ 350,000.00. This is according to Kojo Addo,...

Good news for Legon undergrads who failed to graduate

The University of Ghana has granted amnesty to undergraduate students yet to graduate from the University since 2000/01 academic year over failed courses. In a...

TUTAG threatens demo over conditions of service

Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has given government a two-week ultimatum to review its members’ condition of service or they begin series...

GES sends important message to parents, JHS graduates in selection of SHS

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has sent a message of caution to parents and Junior High School (JHS) graduates in the selection of Senior...

57-year-old BECE graduate gets support

A 57-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduate has received monetary support of GH¢1,000 from the Swedru Teachers’ Co-operation Credit Union (STCCU) after the...

Dumelo’s savage reply to fan over Public Universities Bill (Read)

Member of Parliament aspirant for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency, John Dumelo, says public universities should be self-governed and free from government interference with regards...

GES recruits 16,500 trained teachers

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has begun the process to recruit 16,500 trained teachers who completed the colleges of education last year.Earlier this year,...

Selection of schools into SHSs begins

The selection of schools into Senior High Schools (SHS) by the Junior High School candidates who just completed their Basic Education Certificate Exams has...

Shatta Wale featured in approved Creative Arts Primary 4 textbook

Shatta Wale has appeared in the Creative Arts textbook approved by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and published by Alpha and Omega series for...

43 pregnant girls write WASSCE, BECE in Kassena-Nankana West

The Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region has recorded 43 pregnancies in the just ended West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE)...

Dos and don’ts of school placement

From Monday 21st September to Saturday 31st October, those who have just completed the BECE will be selecting the SHS they would like to...

How school placement under CSSPS works

From Monday, September 21 to October 31, candidates who have just completed the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be selecting the Senior High...

107 BECE candidates failed to sit for the exam in Ahafo Region

Director of Education for the Ghana Education Service in the Ahafo Region, Yaw Frimpong, has revealed that this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)...

57-year-old mum-of-four completes BECE; sets eyes on Free SHS

Madam Elizabeth Yamoah, a mother-of-four, was among the hundreds of thousands of candidates who completed the 2020 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination...

BECE candidate drives to exam centre in a scrap metal car he built [photos]

A young but talented Junior High School pupil, who sat for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination, has wowed social media users with a...

40-year-old BECE candidate hoping to be an engineer[video]

A 40-year-old driver is among the candidates in the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Nkoranza in the Bono East...

Investigate GH¢3.6m additional feeding cost of BECE Free Hot Meals – Akufo-Addo urged

Edem Senanu  Edem Senanu, Co-Chair of the Citizens Movement Against Corruption, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately probe the discrepancies in the number...

No inherited project has been abandoned – GETFund Administrator

It has been revealed that about 2,000 GETFund projects, including inherited and new projects have been completed so far. This is according to the GETFund...

NYA congratulates 2020 BECE graduates

The National Youth Authority (NYA) has congratulated graduates of the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Chief Executive Officer, Sylvester Tetteh urged the graduates to...