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CLOGSAG backs striking teacher unions

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) is backing the three teacher unions who are striking over the appointment of Dr...

Ghana Law School SRC reacts to directive to submit social media handles

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law says an admonition by the Director of the school for students to live...

Ghanaian YouTuber’s call to the Bar on hold for ‘lack of good character’

Ghanaian YouTuber, Elorm Ababio, popularly known as Ama Governor, will not be called to the Ghana Bar on Friday when her colleagues formally join...

No inherited project abandoned; 1,314 completed since 2017 – GETFund

The administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has reiterated no project inherited from the erstwhile administration has been abandoned. According to Richard Ampofo...

Labour Commission directs teachers unions to call off strike

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed the three teacher unions who are on strike against the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah as the...

Striking teachers to meet Labour Commission

The leadership of the three teacher unions on strike will today, Wednesday, November 9, 2022, meet the National Labour Commission (NLC). This comes after...

Parliament’s Education Committee to push for amendment of GETFund Act

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, has promised to make a strong case for an amendment to the Ghana Education Trust...

Check out GETFund projects completed in some universities

The administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Richard Ampofo Boadu, has listed a number of projects completed in various tertiary institutions in...

GETFund engages stakeholders on infrastructure support

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has held a stakeholders' forum on infrastructure support for education in Ghana. The forum, led by the GETFund...

Govt drags teachers to Labour Commission over strike

The government has dragged the striking teacher unions to the National Labour Commission (NLC) over their stance on the appointment of an acting Director-General...

JHS pupil drowns in River Owabi

A 15-year-old Junior High School pupil, David Laari, has reportedly drowned in River Owabi at Dabaa in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the...

Teachers strike against new GES boss unjustified – Afenyo-Markin

Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, says the strike action by three teacher unions against the new Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) is...

Academic activities grind to a halt over teachers’ strike [Video]

https://youtu.be/BPyFxqAcnSM A strike by teacher unions over the appointment of the new Ghana Education Service (GES) Director-General has brought academic work in schools to a...

St John’s Grammar old students resist plan to site market in school

Some educational stakeholders are worried that Ghana’s human resources development would further dwindle, if the construction of a market square around the St John’s...

CETAG, CENTSAG threaten strike

Two major staff associations at the 46 Colleges of Education across the country have threatened to lay down their tools if government does not...

5th Accra International Book Festival scheduled for December 2022 

The fifth edition of the Accra International Book Festival will take place in December this year, the Afro-Book Festival has said.  Held every year, the...

Former Deputy Minister is best graduating student in Peace, Security and Intelligence Management at UPSA

A former Deputy Minister for Defence under the erstwhile John Mahama government has been adjudged Best Graduating Student in Peace, Security and Intelligence Management...

Fire guts Sawla SHS girls’ dormitory

Fire has gutted the girls' dormitory of the Sawla Senior High School (SHS) in the Savannah Region. The incident reportedly occurred at about 11:00 am...

Anglogold Ashanti partners Otumfuo Foundation to distribute 17,000 textbooks at Obuasi

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Education matters hence quality education cannot thrive without the provision...

Akufo-Addo’s former appointee bags Masters Degree [Photos]

A former Upper West Regional Minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo's first term, Tangoba Abayage, has graduated from the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA)....

Rethinking primary education in Ghana, time to say ‘goodbye’ to traditional teaching method

Ghana introduced a bold new curriculum of the future in 2019 labelled the ‘Standards-Based Curriculum’ (SBC) for kindergarten to primary six. While this new...

Education Ministry reacts to food shortage in Colleges of Education

The Ministry of Education says it is working to resolve its outstanding financial obligations to Colleges of Education.  According to the Ministry, this is to...

PRINCOF appeals to Education Minister to allow teacher trainees to feed themselves starting November 7

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) is requesting for teacher trainees to start to fund their own feeding...

Teacher Unions divided over appointment of new GES Director

The teacher unions in the country are divided over the suitability of Dr Eric Nkansah as acting Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES)....

Teachers demand payment of tier-two pensions

The Ghana National association of teachers(GNAT) is worried about the Ghana Education Service's reluctance to promote teachers and members of the association to their...

Govt releases funds for feeding of SHS students

The government, through the Ministry of Education, has released an amount of ₵126,000,000 for feeding students in public Senior High Schools (SHSs) covering non-perishable...

2022 NSMQ winner receives full scholarship from Academic City

A member of the winning 2022 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) team from Presbyterian Boys Secondary School, Legon, Austin Afutu, has received and...

Good news for JHS graduates in selection of Senior High Schools

National Coordinator for the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu Mensah, has assured of a smooth selection of schools into Senior High...

Prof Aryeetey wins defamation case against his successor

An Accra High Court on Thursday ruled that Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Immediate Past Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, was liable for...

Stop using GES staff as invigilators, supervisors – WAEC told

The African Education Watch has called on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to cease using staff of the Ghana Education Service (GES) as...

Eduwatch bemoans lack of urgency by Police in prosecuting WASSCE fraud suspects

The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) says its efforts in getting the Police to prosecute suspects of examination fraud have not yielded any results a...

NSMQ2022: Watch how Prempeh College returned the trophy

The journey to claiming the coveted trophy of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) is one participating schools do not downplay for any...

NSMQ: Meet the man who has been setting chemistry questions since 1993

The cheers, applause and appreciation were just overwhelming in the KNUST Great Hall when the longest-serving National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) chemistry consultant...

Teacher Unions threaten strike on Nov. 4 over new GES DG

The controversy over embattled Director-General (DG) of Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah, continues to deepen as four teacher unions threaten to go...

NSMQ 2022: Mother of PRESEC’s Alfred Ken-Nsiah shares touching story

Mother of one of the contestants for the 2022 NSMQ winners, Linda Lartieku-Nsiah, is overwhelmed by her son’s performance in the 2022 National Science...

Presec wins 2022 NSMQ

“We are still ‘seven’ a living God,” the students, old boys and other supporters of Presec chanted as the Legon-based school clinched a record-extending...

UTAG, other public university unions continue strike

Leaders of the four major Labour Unions in public universities in Ghana have announced their strike which began from Monday, October 17 is still...

Kukpum community converts NPP pavilion into school

Residents of Kukpum in the Gushegu Municipality of the Northern Region have been forced to convert the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) pavilion into a...

Education Minister ‘defends’ new GES boss; says he taught Geography in SHS

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said the new acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah,...

I dreamt of participating in NSMQ in class 4 – Prempeh College contestant

Lionel Sefa Boakye Yiadom was in class four when he started dreaming of representing Prempeh College at the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ). He...