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SHS placement brouhaha: IT expert exposes weaknesses in CSSPS (Video)

A lead Information Technology (IT) technician at Project Ghana Network Solutions, Akwasi Adabo Boakye, has urged the government to provide adequate education on the...

Pentecost Skills Development Center graduate 2nd batch of students

hi The Teshie Nungua Area of the Church of Pentecost, under the leadership of Apostle Dr. Alfred Koduah, has graduated its second batch of students...

2019 SHS placement the best ever – Education Minister

The Minister for Education, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has described the 2019 Senior High School (SHS) placement as the best ever since the inception of...

SHS placement: 90 per cent done

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that majority of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who have thronged the Black Stars Square with...

Audio: I’m an alumnus of KNUST not a hall – NAPO fires Conti Alumni

The Minister of Education is not worried he has been stripped off his affiliation to Unity Hall, popularly known as Continental Hall of the...

Vice-Chancellor sued over UEW finances

Mr Bruno Bajuase Chirani, Acting Finance Officer of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has filed a writ at the Winneba High...

Tears at Mfantsipim school amidst tight security

Some parents and their wards cried together at Mfantsipim school Compound in Cape Coast on Monday as they thronged the School with their baggage,...

Listen: SHS placement saga: Collapsed pupils faked it – Education Minister

Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, says he is convinced most of the people who collapsed at the Independent Square while in a queue...

Video: We don’t want free SHS; we are tired – Pupils tell Akufo-Addo

Some angry pupils, who have been tossed back and forth because of the Ghana Education Service' (GES) school placement, have openly declared that they...

KNUST Debate Society lifts another trophy in Africa

Boakye Nyamekye Isaac, popularly known as BNI, from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has emerged winner of the 2019 edition...

SHS Placement: Stranded pupil at Mfantsipim attempts suicide (Audio)

A prospective student of Mfantsipim School in the Central region reportedly attempted suicide having been turned away by authorities. A parent, who disclosed this on...

SHS placement saga: GES restores calm at Black Star Square

The Ghana Education Service (GES) in the early hours of Tuesday began an organised process to address the challenges of over a thousand stranded...

Audio: SHS placement saga: Some parents were bused – Sekondi MP

The pandemonium at the Black Star Square where frustrated parents seeking admission for their wards into various Senior High School (SHS) was politically orchestrated,...

Video: Stranded parents, students hold vigil over SHS placement confusion

Some stranded parents and students-hopefuls who gathered at the Black Star Square over the Computerised School Placement System with the hope of resolving the...

Photos: 2019 NSMQ winners tour Nairobi, Dubai

The winners of the 2019 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ) from St. Augustine’s College enjoyed a trip to remember when they embarked on...

Don’t be education directors in your shops – GES tells Café attendants

The Deputy Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, has urged Café attendants to stop being education directors in their...

Audio: GES PRO blames parents, café attendants for SHS placement confusion

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is blaming parents and Cafe attendants for the confusion that has marred the 2019 Senior High School (SHS) placements in Ghana. According...

Video+Photos: JHS graduate collapses at Independence Square over SHS placement confusion

A female Junior High School (JHS) graduate on Monday morning collapsed at the Independence Square, Accra after long hours in a queue to change...

Audio: Angry parents to storm Jubilee House over SHS placement confusion

Some disgruntled parents, whose wards were turned away by authorities of Mfantsipim Senior High School (SHS) in the Central region, have expressed disgust at...

Akufo-Addo directs suspension of GES staff from HRMIS

President Akufo-Addo has ordered the immediate suspension of the use of the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) platform, to administer the payroll of the Ghana Education...

GNAT President, General Secretary asked to resign

The Greater Accra chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called for the resignation of its national president, Philipa Larsen and...

SHS girl goes naked as she twerks to Medikal’s ‘Wrowroho’

A female teen believed to be a student of Beposo Senior High School has gone viral for the wrong reasons. This was after she went...

Accra Children’s Book Festival cancelled for 2019

The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) has confirmed the cancellation of the 2019 Accra Children’s Book Festival. The biggest children’s book festival in Ghana was...

Video+Photos: Snakes takeover Agona Nyarkrom Basic School

Pupils of the Agona Nyarkrom Roman Catholic Junior High School A&B in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region have threatened to boycott...

Video: Admission disrupted following dispute over Dabokpa SHS land

Instead of concentrating on assisting new students with their admission, management of the Dabokpa Senior High School has been forced into a renewed land dispute...

Tinkaro Osei to launch book on NUGS

Tinkaro Asare Osei, Ghana's representative to the Commonwealth Students' Association and President of the National Union of Ghana Students will today , Wednesday 11th September 2019...

Sabre education, GES collaborate to improve kindergarten education

SabreEducation, a multi-award winning charity organization in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service has launched a program to scale up quality kindergarten education in four district and...

BECE candidates get second chance at placement

A total of 122,706 candidates who qualified to enter the senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions but have not been placed, now have...

GNAT president distances group from members’ strike in six regions

The leadership of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has described the strike action by its members in six regions as illegal. ALSO: Butchered...

Audio: Allotey Jacobs blasts SHS placement secretariat for discrimination

Former Central Regional chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is peeved at the seeming discrimination against indigenes of the Central region. According to...

Parents lock up headmistress for charging admission, other fees (Photos)

Some aggrieved parents of a government school at Iron City, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central region have locked up the headmistress over extortion. The parents,...

Parents fume over SHS placement challenges

Some parents and guardians have expressed frustration at their inability to print out the details of Senior High Schools (SHSs) and Technical Schools their...

GNAT declares strike in 6 regions

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has joined sister teacher group, National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in its industrial action...

Video: Five steps to check SHS computerised placement online

The Ministry of Education has released a video guide to aid prospective Senior High School students to easily identify where they have been placed...

GES releases 2019 SHS placements

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all candidates who passed their 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into various Senior High...

NaCCA responds to Publishers Association

The Executive Secretary of National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) is shocked at complaints Publishers Association that it sidestepped in the new curriculum reform....

51-year-old trader takes advantage of free SHS

Comfort Nutsugah, a 51-year old trader, has taken advantage of government's Free Senior High School Policy to further her education.Ms. Nutsugah, a mother of...

Katanga Hall conversion: Gov’t prevails upon KNUST authorities to change stand

The government of Ghana has, through the Ministry of education, written to the governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to...

Video: We will not rest until we get our hall back – ‘Katangees’

Old students and current students of the University Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have vowed not to rest...

Police arrest 2 agitating on KNUST campus

Police in the Ashanti region has arrested two persons for agitating on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology for the return of University Hall,...