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Teacher Licensure Examination starts Monday

A total of 28,910 newly trained teachers across the country will begin the first-ever Teacher Licensure Examination.The examination will be held in all the...

International Literacy Day: Reading competition held for elderly in Assin South

Reading competition has been held for the aged as part of the International Literacy Day Celebration at Assin Enyinabrem in Assin South District of...

40 SHS run double track system in BA

Forty out of 80 senior high schools in the Brong Ahafo Region have been selected to run the double-track system which takes effect from...

AUDIO: Parents share frustration over SHS placement

Some anxious parents and guardians of students who sat for the 2017 BECE have expressed frustration over failed attempts to secure placement in Senior...

Video: All you need to know about double track system

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Osei Adutwum, has addressed, in detail, the problems that have characterized government's proposed double-track system for senior high schools.The first...

FREE SHS: Education Ministry responds to GNAT over extension of reopening date

The Ministry of Education has responded to the plea by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) to extend the reopening date for Senior...

Audio: Toilet roll, bed sheets, pens not free under free SHS – CHASS

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) is worried parents don’t still understand the free Senior High School (SHS) policy.President of CHASS,...

2018 School Placement: No schools for over 67,000 students as GNAT calls for postponement in reopening

The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Wednesday released the placements of 423,134 students who successfully made it under the 2018 Computerised School Selection and...

GHS to introduce drone services to distribute essential medicines

The Director-General of Ghana Health Service says plans are advanced to introduce drone services to distribute essential medicines, vaccines and blood to the various...

Lift ban on use of mobile phones by students; GUNSA urges govt.

The Ghana United Nations Students and Youth Association (GUNSA) is demanding an immediate lifting of the ban on the use of mobile phones and...

BECE candidates given second chance at placement

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked Basic Education Certificate examination candidates who did not get automatic placement into senior high schools by the...

Double track system just like multiple church services – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has likened the double track system which is to begin in senior high schools this month, September, to...

2018 SHS choices of BECE candidates released

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all the candidates who passed their 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations, into the various senior...

Teacher trainees vow to remain unemployed over licensing exams [Audio]

Some teacher trainees say they are prepared to go hungry rather than write a licensing examination to guarantee them employment.A group calling itself Friends...

SMASCO: An example of a school needing intensive care

Abandoned projects, completely deteriorated roads, bushy environs and dormitories invaded by bed bugs are the sights that greet you when you step feet at...

MP urges Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools

The Member of Parliament for Bekwai constituency, Joseph Osei Owusu has entreated the Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools instead of...

GES to recruit over 8,000 teachers for double track system

The Ghana Education Service has begun processes to recruit over 8,000 graduate teachers for the double track system in various senior high schools.Head of...

Coalition of Concern Teachers gives gov’t October deadline

The Coalition of Concern Teachers (CCT) Ghana is calling on government to address issues of salary arrears owed to over 42,000 of its members are cleared...

From village icon to global acclaim, the story of a soaring young Ghanaian

It’s no mean feat to be recognized by the most powerful countries in the world and the most influential leaders especially when you are...

Akufo-Addo applauds renaming Ho Technical University after Ephraim Amu

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the decision by the Governing Council of the Ho Technical University to rename the institution after the great Ghanaian cultural icon,...

2018 BECE: 83 results cancelled, 2,061 withheld

The entire results of 83 candidates who wrote the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) have been cancelled.That is according to the examination body...

PHOTO: KNUST’s single-sex halls begin intake of female students

Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have today commenced intake of female students in all three single-sex halls in...

7000 teachers quit annually – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has expressed concern over the high attrition rate of teachers from the teaching service saying it is...

Gov’t committed to building society of inclusion – President Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the commitment of his government to pursuing goals and policies that ensure the...

Gov’t urged to pay attention to promotion of adult education

Government is being urged to pay equal attention to promoting adult education as it is doing for Free Senior High School. Country Director for Engage...

‘Exclude ministers, MPs from Free SHS’

A member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has suggested that the Free SHS policy can be successfully targeted...

Rescind your decision on Halls’ Conversion or face our wrath – Katanga boys warn [AUDIO]

Students of Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have warned authorities of the school to rescind the decision...

Conversion of halls senseless, we’ll fight it – Kantanga Alumni

Alumni of the University Hall popularly referred to as Katanga at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), say they will fight...

Ghana needs sober deliberations on free SHS – Otumfuo

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for sober deliberations and frank discussions on the implementation of the free senior high school education...

KNUST converts Katanga, 5 others to mixed halls

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has converted all of its six traditional halls into mixed ones.The halls – Katanga, Unity,...

Consul of Ghana to Italy provides financial support for school children

The Honorary Consul of Ghana to Italy, Massimiliano C Taricone has fully funded a project initiated by a 25 year old volunteer from Pistoia...

Free SHS increases interest in BECE resit

The introduction of the free Senior High School policy has shot up interest in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) resit as 11,000 pupils sat...

Teacher licensure exams suspended

The National Teaching Council (NTC) has indefinitely suspended the teacher licensure exam.The Ghana Education Service advocated that teachers should pass a special examination after...

Govt releases full list of 400 schools to operate double-track

Government has released the list of all 400 Senior High Schools to operate the double-track system from September this year.The list, published here, gives a...

One per cent of GDP to fund tertiary level research – Osafo-Maafo

The government has decided to increase its spending on research at the tertiary level from the current 0.3 per cent of gross domestic product...

ICA boss calls for focus…on Technical/Vocational education

Proprietress of Imperial College of Arts (ICA), Nana Menyin Kwofie has poured cold water on wild assertion that technical and vocational education is for...

Free SHS is a nightmare for NPP – Victor Smith (AUDIO)

Former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Emmanuel Victor Smith is predicting a collapse of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagship free...

Double track system long overdue – Kokofu

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Bantama, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has said the implementation of the double track system is long...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Heads must roll over our delayed salaries – Teacher trainees

Teacher trainees across the country have threatened to take the government on if they are not paid their delayed two-year salary.According to Mr Kwabena...

Double-track system a very smart approach – Deputy Education Minister

About 181 thousand students can now heave a sigh of relief following government’s decision to roll out the double track system in September this...