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Supreme Court quashes High Court ruling on dismissed UEW Vice Chancellor

The Supreme Court has quashed the Winneba High Court’s decision that found former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Professor Mawutor...

Nkwanta: Headmaster takes cover as students rampage, destroy sch. property over mobile phone seizure

Some students of the Nkwanta Senior High School in the Volta region have attacked and vandalized school properties over the seizure of mobile phones Monday...

Third year students added to Free SHS – GES

Government has added form three day students to its flagship free Senior High School (SHS) programme while the fees for boarders have been subsidized. The...

Video: KNUST lecturers hit streets over council dissolution, VC removal

Members of the Teachers & Educational Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU)  and lecturers of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have...

“In KNUST, the palace guard is more royal than the prince” – Student who held one-man protests reveals

The student who held a one-man protest against the inhumane treatment of students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has...

Audio: KNUST students react to ‘sacking’ of VC

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are on cloud nine after their Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Obiri Danso has been asked...

KTI students make u-turn; apologize for attempted demonstration

Students of Kumasi Technical Institute have apologized to the Ghana Education Service and school authorities for ‘bad behavior’ over an intended demonstration. Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon...

Breaking: KNUST VC asked to step aside

The Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Obiri Danso has been asked to step aside. Deputy Minister of Education,...

Dean called us ‘dim-witted, security men called us ‘cockroaches’ – KNUST students

More details are emerging about what students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) students say is a culture of abuse...

Tarkwa-Nsuaem MP supports Ghana Education Service with Ghc50,000

The Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency in the Western Region, Mr. George Mireku Duker has donated motorbikes and ICT tools valued at 50,000...

Cowbellpedia 2018: Glorious Jesus, Conquerors emerge winners in quiz competition [photos]

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in partnership with one of the country's leading milk powder brands, Cowbell organized a quiz competition for...

Ghana has stronger education system than Palestine – Ambassador

The Palestine Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Abdulfatah A.K. Alsattari says Ghana has a stronger educational system compared to that of his country. According to him,...

Government gives in; includes UTAG, TEWU on KNUST interim council

Government has yielded to pressure and reconstituted the seven-member interim governing council for KNUST following the declaration of strike by lecturers at the university. On...

We don’t recognize the new Interim Committee – UTAG

Members of the University Teachers Association (UTAG), say they do not recognise the Interim Governing Council put constituted by the government. President of UTAG-KNUST, Professor...

KNUST UTAG lay down tools in solidarity with dissolved Council

Lecturers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology have declared an indefinite strike over the government’s dissolution of the school’s governing council. The...

Audio: What’s special about Kantanga; Unity halls – UTAG Prez

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) has questioned government’s seeming support for students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) against management...

AUDIO: KNUST saga: Our exclusion from new council a travesty – UTAG

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has described as a travesty and tragedy their exclusion from the newly constituted Governing Council of the...

First Lady, RCS launch reading project

The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has launched a literacy initiative geared towards inculcating in school children the habit of reading. Dubbed Learning to read, reading...

Gov’t dissolves KNUST Governing Council

Government has dissolved the governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The government has in its stead, put in place...

Audio: Ledzokuku MP charges on KNUST authorities

Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency has mounted a strong defence against the conversion of male and female halls at the Kwame Nkrumah...

Pantryman suspended for fondling St. Louis SHS student

A pantryman of the St. Louis Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region has been suspended for three months without pay, for fondling...

President to receive report on KNUST disturbances

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is to present an official report, relating to the recent disturbances at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

KNUST Vice-Chancellor has not resigned – Authorities

Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have refuted media speculations that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, has resigned. “Prof. Obiri-Danso...

Audio: KNUST VC has no regard for the students – Alumni

Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Obiri Danso has been accused of usurping powers of students in the...

KNUST riot: Heads must roll – Abronye DC

A member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) wants heads to roll at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) following...

KNUST riot: 20 students cautioned; granted bail

Twenty students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) who were arrested during the protest in the school Monday have been...

KNUST VC must step aside: AFAG man charges

The Operations Director for the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), Davis Opoku has called on the Ministry of Education to immediately intervene in the...

KNUST Clash: Claims that a student has lost his memory false – PRO

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kwame Yeboah, has dismissed claims that one of the students...

Video: Commotion at KNUST as students clash with police

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) demonstrating against school authorities have clashed with the police Monday morning. Media reports say...

Video: KNUST students boycott lectures; hold demo over brutalities

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have boycotted lectures in protest of what they describe as brutalities in the...

Obama Foundation launches initiative for girls’ education

CHICAGO, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama announced on Thursday a new initiative aimed at empowering adolescent girls around the...

Hundred of teachers on study leave impersonated at NSS

Joy News investigation has revealed index numbers of hundreds of teachers on study leave have been used by fraudsters to enroll onto the National...

One injured, 11 others arrested as student clash with KNUST security

One student has been injured after having a run-in with the security officers of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Saturday. According to school...

“Extra curricular won’t suffer” – Education Minister assures

The Minister for education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has allayed fears ongoing reforms in the second cycle education level will affect extra curricula activities...

T.I AMASS are champions of maiden Luv FM High School debate

T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School are champions of the maiden edition of the Luv FM High School Debate which has just ended after gruelling...

Removing ‘old’ lecturers from payroll will kill Universities – UTAG

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has described as unfortunate government’s move to take off all lectures above 65 years from its payroll. The...

Audio: Fear grips Akumadan SHS over rituals on school land

Teachers and students of Akumadan Senior High School in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti Region have expressed fears over rituals performed on...

Prempeh College suspends 14 students for breaking bounds

Prempeh College in Kumasi has handed a two-week suspension to 14 students for leaving campus without authorization. The students were said to have sneaked out...

GNAT appeals to MMDAs to construct teachers’ bungalows

The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to construct teachers’ bungalows in deprived communities to solve the residential accommodation problems facing...

Balungu-Nabiisi School pupils learn on bare floor

Most pupils at the Balungu-Nabiisi School in the Bongo District sit on bare floor to learn due to lack of furniture. A Ghana News Agency...