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Ministry of Education gets clearance to recruit 22,802 staff this year

The Ministry of Education has received clearance from the Ministry of Finance to replace, recruit and re-appoint 22,802 teaching and non-teaching staff this year. The...

Govt secures funds for construction of technical schools in all 10 regions

Government has secured funding from the Saudi Arabian government for the construction of 20 technical art schools in all the regions of the country. Professor...

Police arrest nine students over Chemu-TTI attacks

Police in Tema are quizzing nine students over circumstances leading to attacks on students at Chemu Senior High School Wednesday. What started as a fight...

Free SHS challenges won’t disrupt programme – Akufo-Addo assures

President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to ensure that free Senior High School (SHS) programme is sustained despite teething challenges. “Everything new, when it starts has...

On strike: Colleges of education teachers leave classrooms over unpaid salaries

Teachers at Ghana's colleges of education have begun a nationwide strike to protest unpaid salaries spanning 12 months. Early on, the Colleges of Education Teachers Association...

Interdicted UEW VC, others not arrested – UTAG

The leadership of University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has challenged reports of the arrest of the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba by the...

Accra Girls’ School turns to solar to save energy cost

A five-kilowatt solar power system has been inaugurated at the Accra Girls’ Senior High School to save cost on energy. The project has two components,...

UEW Vice-Chancellor, five others interdicted

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba (UEW) Prof. Mawutor Avoke and five other top officials have been asked to step aside as investigations...

10% of children out of school – World Bank Report

A new World Bank report on education in Ghana says less than 10% of children of primary school age (age 6-11), are out of...

Yaa Asantewaa Old students rescue alma mater with toilet facility

Yaa Asantewaa Old Students Association has averted what could have been a sanitation crisis in the school, with the completion of a place of convenience. With...

16% of children are ‘out of school’ – World Bank report

A new World Bank report on education says in Ghana a considerable number of children of primary age (age six to eleven) are out...

Varkey Foundation boosts distance learning programmes in Ghana

Five new studios that will allow the Varkey Foundation to continue to deliver its high quality interactive distance learning programmes in Ghana have opened. The...

PTA to roll out insurance policy for SHS

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) is set to roll out an insurance policy for Senior High School students. The move according to the...

Soldiers, Police storm big boss as another student dies

Military personnel and police officers have taken over security at the Bolgatanga Senior High School (Big Boss), one of the premier institutions in the...

Photos: Pupils of Tapa Amanya RC sit on stones to learn

There are no classrooms or desks but pupils of Tapa Amanya Roman Catholic School primary school in the Biakoye district of Volta region are...

Police foil reprisal attack at Kagaga SHS

Police in the Northern region Thursday prevented a planned reprisal attack by students of Karaga Senior High School (SHS) whose mobile phones were set...

Tension at Karaga SHS as teachers set phones, laptops ablaze

Tension is mounting at Karaga Senior High School (SHS) in the Karaga district of the Northern region after teachers allegedly seized phones and laptops...

McDan CEO to rescue La Presby students studying on cement blocks

The well-documented struggles of the first year Senior High School students at the La Presby Senior High School may be lessened after the CEO of McDan...

Study reveals low levels of reading, numeracy skills in children

A study has revealed low levels of competency in the areas of reading and numeracy skills amongst children of school going age in three...

Free SHS: Kwabenya SHS students eat waakye without shito, fish

Some beneficiaries of the government’s Free Senior High School program are being served what some of the students describe as non-nutritious meals. In some...

Technical universities, polytechnics to get boost from gov’t

The government has pledged to give strong support to technical universities and polytechnics – to raise the quality of their training, to drive the...

Nduom University receives accreditation; to admit 200 new students

The Vice-Chancellor of the Nduom School of Business & Technology (NSB&T), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom has announced that the school has "finally" been accredited...

59 Nima kids’ fate in limbo

Uncertainty has characterized the education of fifty-nine(59) pupils of the Nima 1 Basic School many months since they wrote their Basic Education Certificate Examination...

Begoro Science Resource Centre abandoned; students’ performance drops

Students of the Begoro Presbyterian Senior High School and other schools in the catchment area have been without a functional science laboratory since 2011,...

GNAT cautions teachers against absenteeism

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in the Assin North Municipality has scaled up its engagements with stakeholders to significantly reduce teacher absenteeism...

Nigeria Teachers fail exam set for pupils

Thousands of primary school teachers in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state are to be sacked after failing the exams they set for their six-year-old pupils. State...

Hot Audio: God is the reason – 13-year-old KNUST student says

Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, the 13-year-old student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has credited her success in the academia and life, to...

800-Capacity SHS shut down due to low enrolment

The Aberdare State College at Abeadze Dominase in the Central Region has been closed down due to low enrolment. The school, which has facilities to...

GES official sells govt’s free books to pay son’s Uni fees

The Supply officer at the Ho municipal directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Wisdom Atawiah has been arrested for allegedly stealing and selling...

Free SHS beneficiaries mob President Akufo-Addo

Beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School policy, as well as hundreds of residents from the three northern regions have lauded President Nana Addo...

Allow us to work in freedom – GNAT jabs GES, Education Ministry

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has sounded a clarion call to the Ghana Education Service and the Education Ministry to let teachers...

‘Class One’ teacher adjudged 2017 National Best Teacher

A Primary 1 teacher, Faustina Cobson has been adjudged the 2017 National Best Teacher as Ghana marks Global Teachers Day. The 41-year old who teaches...

NAGRAT wants October 5 declared a holiday for “only teachers and students”

The President of National Association of Graduate Teachers, Christian Addai-Poku has renewed calls for World Teachers Day, marked October 5, to be declared a...

PHOTOS: Children swim to school daily in Tapa Abotoase of Volta region

Most basic school children at Tapa C.K Kope and fifteen other communities in the Biakoye District of Volta Region have been forced to swim...

PHOTO: KNUST admits 13-year-old to pursue BSC Mathematics

Miss Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, a 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kwadwo Gyan-Darkwa of Space Workers College, has been admitted as the youngest ever...

Islamic SHS students in trouble over ‘one corner’ dance

Thirteen (13) students of the Islamic Senior High School (ISSEC) in Kumasi, are facing the school’s Disciplinary Committee for misconduct. The students, comprising nine females...

Gov’t gives full scholarships to Denkyira Obuasi students

The Scholarship Secretariat has granted full scholarships to all continuing senior high school students of Denkyira Obuasi. The scholarship scheme is in line with measures...

Hot audio: ‘Free SHS will produce pregnant teenagers’

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is predicting Ghana may record the high rate of teenage pregnancies following the...

I never said govt can’t employ graduates – Prof Yankah

The Minister of State-in-Charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah says he never said government cannot employ graduates. According to him, his admonition for graduates...

Bishop proposes voluntary fund to support free SHS

The Right Reverend Kofi Asare-Bediako, the out-going Bishop, Sunyani Diocese of the Methodist Church- Ghana, has called for the institution of a voluntary education...