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Education Minister pays surprise visit to PRESEC students

Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adwutwum, has once again demonstrated his love for the teaching profession to students of the Presbyterian Senior High School...

UCC ranked No.1 globally for research influence

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana has been ranked the number one university globally for research influence. It has also been ranked the...

Covid-19 Effects: Over 22,000 students in Upper West fail to return to school

A total of 22,519 Kindergarten (KG), Primary and Junior High School (JHS) students in the Upper West Region have failed to return to school...

W/N: 1000 girls to be trained with basic ICT skills

The Minister for Communications and Digitisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has disclosed that the 2021 Girls in ICT initiative will be held in the Western North...

Drama unfolds at PAC sitting in Sunyani

Drama unfolded at the sitting of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in Sunyani of the Bono Region last Monday. This was when a former Headmaster...

Dormaa Senior High School’s 1990 Year Group donates desks to alma mater

The 1990 Year Group of Dormaa Senior High School (DORMASS) in the Bono Region has presented 120 DUAL desks to facilitate effective teaching and...

Standards-based curriculum reforms: Do schools need textbooks or resource books?

In the last four decades, Ghana has embarked on three significant school curriculum reforms involving the 1987 basic education reform, 1996 fCUBE reform and...

GES detects ‘ghost names’ in ‘one teacher one laptop’ project list

The Ashanti Regional Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has detected ghost names on the one-teacher one laptop project list. Thie situation, according to management,...

Five reasons why the solution to mass failure in an exam does not lie in abolishing the exams

For quality and Standardization purposes, many professions and agencies use license systems to select individuals into their respective fields. All over the world, the...

Viral video: Foreign students learning Twi in class

A video of foreign teenage students learning Twi in class has gone viral on social media. The video, sighted on a Facebook page called...

Over 470 teen mothers return to school in Central Region

A total of 473 girls in the Central Region, who were either pregnant or breastfeeding, have returned to school. A representative of the National Girls...

KNUST dismisses 4 students for serious offenses

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has taken disciplinary action against some four male students of the school for committing various...

Lecturer rejects KNUST appointment over poor salary

A Zimbabwean lecturer, Dr Matthew Chiwaridzo, has declined an officer as a senior lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in...

New timetable for KNUST semester examinations released

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has announced a revised arrangement for the 2020/21 end-of-second semester examinations. This comes in the wake...

Govt recognises outstanding contribution of teachers to national dev. – Ntim Fordjour

Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, says the government recognises the outstanding contribution of teachers to the development of the country. Speaking at...

School Feeding caterers paid

The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has disbursed an amount of GHC160 million out of the GHC213...

Kwesimintsim MP applauds govt’s massive TVET infrastructure to stimulate development

The Deputy Chair of Parliament’s Committee on Education, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, says the government has, through infrastructure development, made a significant step towards...

‘Kissing Priest’ breaks silence

The Anglican priest, who kissed three female students of the St Monica’s College of Education at Mampong in the Ashanti Region, Rev. Fr Baltharzzar...

Meet the new GIMPA Rector

The Governing Council of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has appointed Professor Samuel Kwaku Bonsu as the new Rector of...

Police probe death of KNUST student in alleged suicide

Police in the Ashanti Region have launched investigations into a case involving a student believed to have committed suicide at Adoato. The deceased, a 25-year-old...

University students want more time to prepare for exams as UTAG suspends strike

University students across the country are asking lecturers to give them more time to adequately prepare for their end of semester examinations. The students were...

Prof Yaw Gyampo: UTAG negotiating in perpetuity with no end in sight

We were negotiating in perpetuity with no end in sight. We were talking about our poor conditions of service with authorities, and no one...

Good news for students as UTAG take steps to suspend strike

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has taken steps to suspend its ongoing strike and return to the negotiation table. This follows a meeting...

UTAG agrees to call off strike

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) has agreed to suspend its strike following an emergency meeting with the National Labour Commission and the Ministry of...

Zorkor SHS students stand and eat in the sun and rain

9: 00 am: Wednesday, July 21, 2021. It was mealtime at the Zorkor Senior High School in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region...

Drama as Poly students celebrate exit of Rector by sweeping main gate [Video]

There was a mild drama at the Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro as students celebrate the exit of the Rector in an unusual way. The Rector...

Teenager who pulled machete on teacher jailed

The Odumase Krobo District Court in the Eastern Region has jailed a man who stormed Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian Junior High School with a machete...

JHS pupil dies in class after being punished by teacher

A 13-year-old pupil of the Federal Government College, Yahaya Aliyu, has died after allegedly being punished by his teacher. It was gathered that the teacher...

Education Minister’s message to 2021 WASSCE candidates

The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has expressed hope the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates will excel. This is because...

‘Holy kiss’ Anglican priest incurs wrath of Africa Education Watch

Africa Education Watch has petitioned the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to, with immediate effect, investigate a viral video of an Anglican priest kissing...

Teacher allegedly impregnates three girls in same class

A teacher in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality in the Central Region has allegedly impregnated three girls in the same class. This is according to a lecturer...

Labour strike: Court slaps UTAG with GHC 3,000 cost

An Accra Labour Court 1 has slapped the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) with GHC3,000.00 fine over what the court describes as a...

Fire ravages classrooms, offices, store of St Charles SHS in Tamale

Fire destroyed classrooms, offices and a store at the St Charles Senior High School (SHS) in Tamale this morning. The cause of the fire is...

Expanding Boundaries International boosts STEAM education in rural Ghana

Expanding Boundaries International (EBI), a United States-based organization, along with its local partners, Rural Smile Foundation and Richard Akoto, aims to provide access and...

SHS final year student stabs teacher

A final year student of Three Town Senior High School (SHS) near Denu in the Ketu South Municipality has stabbed his teacher. The teacher, John...

JHS shut down as man invades premises with machete

Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region has been temporarily closed down. This is...

GNAT threatens govt

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has warned of a strike if the government fails to resolve outstanding issues laid before it.  Nicholas Taylor,...

Food shortage hits Damongo SHS [Photos]

Over 1,800 students at Damongo Senior High School (SHS) in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region are worried as the school is...

Siscode Ghana puts smiles on the faces of pupils at Adentan Community School [Photos]

The faces of pupils at the Adentan Community School are beaming with smiles through the benevolence of the non-governmental organisation, Siscode/Gh. This was after Siscode...

Here are WAEC’s processes in setting exam questions [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Here are WAEC’s processes in setting exams questions The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed the processes it goes through before setting...