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Sunyani SHS suspends 7 female students for smoking shisha

The Authorities of the Sunyani Senior High School (SHS) in the Bono Region have suspended seven female students for engaging in gangster activities with...

Bawku conflict: We feel unsafe going home after vacation – UDS students

Some students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) have appealed to feuding factions in the area to make peace and resolve their differences...

GNAPS to sue govt over 30% priority placement into Category ‘A’ schools

Leadership of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) is preparing to sue government over what they described as discriminatory and uneven distribution...

Bawumia launches ‘No Guarantor’ student loan policy

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Wednesday launched the 'No Guarantor' Student Loan Policy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

GES sends strong message to BECE, WASSCE candidates

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has been reliably informed that some Junior and Senior High School final year students have consistently refused...

Govt’s digitisation agenda has made SLTF’s ‘No Guarantor’ policy possible – Agyei Yeboah

The Chief Executive of the Students Loan Trust Fund, Nana Kwaku Adjei Yeboah, has attributed the SLTF’s ability to implement the “No guarantor” policy...

Library Authority inaugurates new youth centres

The Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) has inaugurated 10 Youth Engagement Centres in eight regions in the country to develop the digital and entrepreneurial skills...

End delays in student loan disbursement – NUGS President

The President of the National Union of Ghana Students, Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo has urged government to ensure that the Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF)...

ITU commends Ghana for Girls in ICT Programme

Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s), Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), on Monday, commended Ghana’s exploits in the Girls in ICT...

School sued over alleged negligence after allegedly serving pupil banku

A private school at Oyarifa in Accra, Gracefield School Limited, has been put before court over alleged negligence that risked the health of a...

Boafri S.D.A basic school pupils forced to turn their laps into table to write

The pupils of Boafri S.D.A basic school in the Krachi Nchumuru district in the Oti Region are compelled to turn their laps into table...

Teacher Union fumes at govt over neglect

A teacher union, All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG), says the government is not being fair to newly trained teachers posted to various service stations...

60 Minutes Prayer Ministry supports Akropong School for the Blind

60 Minutes, a prayer ministry of the New Life Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Lapaz, as part of its annual camp dubbed, 'Jesus Camp', has...

Student allegedly dies while writing exams

A Level 200 Student of the Akenten Appiah Minka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development in the Ashanti Region collapsed and died while...

No teacher trainee has impregnated 24 students, 4 teachers, headmistress -GES

Authorities of the Ghana Education Service in Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region have rejected claims by a news portal that a teacher-trainee, posted...

Prof Lydia Aziato appointed Vice Chancellor of UHAS

Professor Lydia Aziato, the first full professor within the nursing profession in Ghana has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and...

Why the Ahwoi brothers were suspended from Prempeh College

A former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kwesi Ahwoi, has opened up on how he and his elder brother, Ato Ahwoi were suspended from...

MTN Ghana launches Bright Scholarship Reloaded

MTN Ghana Foundation has launched the 25th anniversary edition of its Bright Scholarship scheme in Accra. Dubbed: 'Reloaded', it will offer 300 scholarships to needy...

CENDLOS holds first national digital and distance learning conference in Ghana

The Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS) is organising the first-ever National Digital and Distance Learning Conference (NDDLC) from the 6th...

Gov’t to cut sod for 32 TVET centres to boost industrialisation

The government is set to cut sod for the first phase of the construction of 32 state-of-the-art Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)...

13 govt officials sponsored by Japan to pursue PHD programme

Thirteen Ghanaian government officials have been selected to pursue graduate studies in Japan this year, as part of a scholarship programme sponsored by the...

World Bank grant: $1.2m goes to deprived schools – Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said the $1.2 million World Bank grant for digital literacy will be channelled into resourcing...

We confirmed training of teachers before releasing money to Education Ministry – World Bank

The World Bank says it verified that the Ministry of Education trained teachers before releasing funds under the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project...

Education Minister visits Sakafia Islamic Senior High School

Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has paid an unannounced visit to Sakafia Islamic Senior High School, located at Asokore Mampong. This is the second...

UK to grant visas to graduates from world’s best universities

Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world's best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to...

We can’t learn on empty stomachs – Pupils cry to govt

Pupils of Yaw Berima M/A Basic School in the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti Region have appealed to the government to address...

100,000 teachers from northern Ghana to be trained in digital literacy this year

The Deputy Minister for Education (MoE), John Ntim Fordjour, has hinted that the Education Ministry will begin the training of 100,000 public pre-tertiary teachers...

Lil Win initiates “one Student, One Pen” project

Ghanaian actor, Kwadwo Nkansah, popularly known in showbiz as “Lil Win” has commenced his “One Student, One Pen” project. The effort seeks to ensure that...

Certificates of old students destroyed as fire guts JHS

Fire has gutted the Bibiani Anglican Junior High School(JHS) in the Western Region. The inferno affected five classrooms including the teachers’ staff common room. The fire...

Don’t focus only on girl child at the expense of the boy child

The Coordinator for the Schools Outreach Ministry of the Church of Pentecost,Desmond Addison has advised that society should not focus on empowering only the...

Fetish priest renovates Bosore M/A Primary School

After it was ripped off by a rainstorm two years ago, a fetish priest, Nana Kwadwo Boateng at Bosore, in the Kwabre East Municipality...

Napo sets records straight on $1.2M World Bank cash controversy

Former Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has cautioned against confusing the GALOP programme with the Digital Teacher Training under the KATechnology Teacher Laptop...

UEW VC tells D-G of GTEC to withdraw letter supposedly authorised by Education Minister

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Prof. Mawutor Avoke, has asked the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Prof....

Education Minister denies misapplying $1.2 million

Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has denied misapplying an $1.2 million from the World Bank, meant for training teachers under the Ghana Accountability...

Education Minister fingered in $1.2 million ‘phantom’ training scandal

The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has been fingered in an alleged phantom training scheme of teachers, costing $1.2 million from the World...

OAA 1992 year group donates furniture to school

The 1992 Year Group of the Old Achimotan Association (OAA ‘92) has donated 400 pieces of furniture to Achimota School for use in the...

Floods impeding academic activities in Ghana – GNACOPS Boss laments

The Executive Director for Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah has said that most private schools are facing a lot...

Bole SHS assistant headmaster arrested for reportedly raping student

The Assistant Headmaster of the Bole Senior High School in the Savannah Region has been arrested for allegedly raping a final year student of...

MTN Ghana ultramodern library at Ebenezer SHS records high patronage

The multipurpose library and robotic centre at Dansoman in Accra built by the MTN Ghana Foundation is impacting lives. The facility situated at the Ebenezer...

Education Minister sends important message to UEW over its registrar

The Minister of Education, through the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), has directed the management of the University of Education, Winneba, to pull the...