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Ecobank partners GPE to boost education in Africa

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of the leading pan-African financial institution, has been selected as a private sector ‘partner of choice’ by...

Wa: Pupils learn under trees after contractor abandons school project

The construction of a six-unit classroom block and a teachers' bungalow for Tousa L/A Primary School awarded on contract in 2011 has been abandoned,...

Free SHS will move the nation forward – Mark Okraku Mantey

Programmes Director of Hitz FM and CEO of Slip Music, Mark Okraku Mantey, says the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) education...

PHOTOS: Virgin Pastor, Alexymends foundation donates 2,500 exercise books to support education

Apostle Job Antwi, popularly known as the Virgin Pastor has donated 2,500 exercise books to pupils in Barekese in the Ashanti region of Ghana. According...

Education Ministry unhappy over increasing student rioting

The Ministry of Education is blaming lack of proper communication channels in schools for the increasing student rioting in the country. Sector Deputy Minister, Dr....

Don’t leave Free SHS implementation on gov’t alone – Parents urged

National Programme Coordinator of SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, George Yaw Boateng, has called on parents to support the government with the implementation of the...

You can pass your exams without offering sex to teachers – Deputy Minister

Deputy Minister in charge of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has advised young ladies in the senior high school to be vigilant...

Govt shifts Free SHS burden to Scholarship Secretariat

The government has shifted the cost burden of the direct funding of its free senior high school (SHS) programme to the Scholarship Secretariat. Consequently, the...

Beware! Illegal universities all over the place – NAB

The National Accreditation Board (NAB)has said there are close to 50 tertiary institutions operating without accreditation, which means they are awarding certificates that are...

Samira Bawumia promotes personal hygiene in schools

Mrs Samira Bawumia, through the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Project (SEHP) on Friday, donated quantities of hand sanitizers worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to...

19-year-old Ewuraba Ekua is Chartered Accountant

It is said that “Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the...

Gov't unveils plans to make vocational, technical education attractive

Deputy Minister in charge of Technical and Vocational Education, Barbara Asher Ayisi, says technical education is not for school dropouts but for students who...

GHȻ35.9m released for second term Free SHS

Government has released Ghc35.9 million to cover second term operational and administrative costs for public second cycle schools under the Free SHS programme. Head of...

GETFund to release funds to scholarship secretariat

The scholarship secretariat of Ghana is to receive its share of funds allocated to the Secretariat by the state as stated in the GETFund...

Shocked minister stops increment in university admission forms

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has sent out a strong message to public universities to desist from...

Manhyia Youth salutes NAPO over Best Minister Award

The Manhyia Youth Association, made up of various youth associations in the Manhyia South Constituency in Kumasi, has lauded their Member of Parliament (MP),...

WASSCE to be delayed for a month – Deputy Education Minister

The West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) scheduled to be taken in February will be delayed by a month, a Deputy Education Minister...

H1N1 outbreak over – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the outbreak of the Influenza-A H1N1 that occurred at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School has ended. A statement...

UK-born Ghanaian gets top education job in Theresa May’s gov’t

Sam Gyimah has been made Universities and Science Minister for England in Theresa May's government reshuffle. Mr Gyimah's role straddles the Department for Education and...

River gods forbid girls from school

Girls in communities in the Upper Denkyira East municipality in the Central Region who travel across the Offin River to attend school on the...

Restrict Whatsapp usage during working hours- UCC Pro VC to government

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. George Oduro has admonished government to restrict workers from gaining access to Whatsapp during working...

Gov't releases GHȻ14m to pay teachers’ arrears

The Ministry of Finance has released GHc14,172, 313.23 for the payment of outstanding transfer grants, allowances and salary arrears for validated teachers engaged between...

Manya Krobo SHS: Students charged GHC75 for nose masks

Citi News has sighted a letter from the Manya Krobo Senior High School in the Eastern Region which indicates that students are being charged...

STAAF Volunteers break ground for Sokpoe library project

Non-profit organization STAAF Volunteers, and its American partner, the Rural Africa Literacy Project, have held a groundbreaking ceremony to to build a community library...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: 8, 9 year-old kids publish a book about Ghana

Two students, 8-year-old Senyefia  Kpedor and Mawuena  Akafia aged 9 of Pioneers International Academy in the Greater Accra Region have published a book containing...

Bekwai: Taskforce set up to check free SHS saboteurs

The Bekwai Municipal Assembly has set up a taskforce to monitor the implementation of the free senior high school programme in the municipality. The move...

PHOTOS: Disease outbreak: Massive exercise to disinfect KUMACA underway

A comprehensive disinfection and decontamination exercise to rid Kumasi Academy of viruses and bacterial infection is underway. The two-week exercise which started last week has...

9-year-old UCMAS champion returns home to rousing welcome

Ghana winner of the Universal Concept of Mental and Arithmetic System (UCMAS) global competition returned to Kumasi to a rousing welcome on Friday. Nine-year-old Enoch...

China hands over refurbished ICT lab to Ejisuman SHS

Students of Ejisuman Senior High School in the Ashanti Region now have a modern facility to enhance Information and Communication Technology education. It follows refurbishment...

How I arrested GHANASS Matron – Security man

Key witness in the stealing of food items meant for students of the Ghana Senior High school in Koforidua has revealed that he mounted...

Komenda College of Education begins implementation of ‘paperless classroom’

Some top educators and administrators view the idea of a paperless classroom as an impossibility in education, but in today’s digital age, many educators...

KNUST College of Engineering in dire need of training equipment

he Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Engineering is taking steps to replace obsolete training equipment. Provost, Professor Mark Adom-Asamoah, says many...

PHOTO: Meet the 22-year-old Ghanaian pursuing a PhD

Samuel Fiifi Hammond is a remarkable student. Not just because of his in-depth understanding of technical issues but his unwavering determination to break the...

PHOTOS: Meet the first female police with PhD

She was one of 50 PhD graduates from the university where she had earlier obtained her first and MPhil degrees. The radiance and illumination on...

Alleged preferential treatment of free SHS beneficiaries causes chaos; School closed down

Simms Senior High School at Fawoade in the Ashanti Region has been closed down indefinitely following student rioting over food. The Kwabre East District Education...

Government to recruit 3,000 Arabic teachers

Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has disclosed the government will soon begin recruitment of 3,000 Arabic teachers to aid in developing global mindedness and cultural...

E/R: KOTEC, SDA SHS students clash again; several injured

Students of the Koforidua Technical School, (KOTEC) in the Eastern region have attacked students of the SDA SHS leading to some injuries. The Effiduase District...

Assin: Our teachers harass us for sex – Female students

Female students of senior high schools within the Assin area in the Central Region have made damning allegations against their male teachers, claiming they...

1 dead, 9 Damongo SHS students on admission

Health authorities in the Northern region have confirmed the death of a female student of the Damongo Senior High School. At least nine other students,...

GHANASS matron charged with stealing; granted GHC 30,000 bail

A Circuit Court in Koforidua in the Eastern region has granted bail to the matron and a driver of the Ghana Senior High School...