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Akufo-Addo applauds Western North Minister over ‘1 Child 1 Desk’ initiative

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has endorsed the Western North Regional Minister, Richard Ebbah Obeng's '1 school child, 1 study desk' initiative to provide...

1 Teacher 1 Laptop: Teacher groups petition CHRAJ over ‘inflated cost’

Two groups of teachers calling themselves Innovative Teachers and All Teachers Alliance Ghana have dragged the Education Ministry before the Commission on Human Rights...

Headmaster allegedly flogs SHS final year student over cardigan [Photos]

Mary Amoako, a final year student of Jachie Pramso Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region, has reportedly been flogged by the headmaster. Reports...

North Hills Int’l School wins best, innovative, well-coordinated and organised Private School of the Year

North Hills International School, a Cambridge and Ghana Education Service accredited school, located at North Legon in Accra, has been recognised as the Best,...

Why this teacher will not accept govt’s laptop [Listen]

A teacher and a former Deputy Director of Concerned Teachers Association, has boldly stated he will not accept the government’s laptops under the ‘One...

GETFund funding 70% cost of ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ initiative

It has emerged that the Ghana Educational Trust Fund (GETFund) is the agency paying for the government’s absorbed 70% component of the cost of...

School Feeding Programme for pupils to commence tomorrow

The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) for the third term is set to run effectively Tuesday, September 7 as pupils resume after weeks of...

Final year SHS student stabbed to death over Iphone

The Police at Bekwai in the Ashanti Region have launched investigations into circumstances leading to the stabbing to death of a final year student...

This is how much each teacher will pay under the ‘one laptop’ policy

It has emerged that each teacher will pay GHS 547 as the 30% cost under the government’s one-teacher one laptop policy while the State...

Teachers group kicks against govt’s laptops [Listen]

A teachers group calling itself Innovative Teachers is worried about the quality of laptops under the ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ programme in fulfilment of...

Cape Coast Technical University: Injunction placed on end of semester examination

Some 16 Cape Coast Technical University students have filed a motion on notice for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the university and its academic...

One teacher one laptop: Check out first school to receive govt’s laptops

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched and handed over 350,000 laptops under the ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ programme in fulfillment of government’s...

Check out how much teachers are expected to pay as they receive laptops from govt

Teachers at all levels across the country will be receiving a laptop to aid with teaching and learning as the government officially launches a...

Oppong Nkrumah reacts to UCC’s No.1 global ranking

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has congratulated the University of Cape Coast (UCC) after the university was ranked as the number one university for...

Education Ministry clears air on food shortage in SHSs

The Ministry of Education has denied claims of food shortages in some Senior High Schools (SHS) in the country. Deputy Minister of Education, John Ntim...

WASSCE 2021: Invigilator on the run, candidate arrested over exam leakage

One candidate of the Dadieso Senior High School in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) was picked up on Wednesday while...

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...