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SHS placement for 2021 to be released on Feb 28

The Ghana Education Service (GES) will on Sunday, February 28, 2021, release the computerised school placement for the 2020/2021 academic year. Those who will be...

Invest in hybrid teaching and learning – Govt told

Educational Consultant and philanthropist, Dr Henry Godson-Afful, is appealing to the government to invest in Information and Communications Technology education and has urged for...

Covid-19: A-level and GCSE results to be decided by teachers

GCSEs and A-levels cancelled in England by the pandemic will be replaced by grades decided by teachers, the exams watchdog Ofqual has confirmed. Schools can...

Learn how vaccines work in 45 seconds! [Video]

The World Health Organisation has rolled out a new educational video to teach and provide insight into how vaccines actually work. This gesture is...

SRC petitions UG management over on-site examination

The University of Ghana (UG) Students Representative Council (SRC) has petitioned the Management of the University to revert its decision to hold on-site examinations. A...

GES sends important message to teachers sitting for promotion test

Persons without index numbers seeking to sit for the Ghana Education Service (GES) Promotion test 2021 will not be allowed to take the test,...

Govt ends double-track system

JoyNews/AdomNews · No double track for form ones – GES The Ghana Education Service (GES) will from this academic year suspend the double-track system employed...

UCC, Ghana Police Service introduce postgraduate diploma in security studies

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the Ghana Police Service have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to run a Postgraduate Diploma programme...

GES to set up call centres to address SHS placement issues

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is appealing for calm as it prepares to release this year’s Senior High School (SHS) placement. A statement, copied to...

Ahwia Basic School a death trap; teachers call for new blocks [Video]

Teachers of Ahwia Basic School in the Ashanti Region have appealed for help to construct a new classroom block to replace their...

Coronavirus: 15 students at Tarkwa test positive

A total of 15 students from basic, junior, senior and tertiary institutions in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region have tested positive for...

WAEC releases WASSCE results for private students

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who sat for the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for...

Primary pupils team up to build classroom during study hours [Video]

In the absence of classroom blocks to enhance quality education, pupils of Kechiebi Asuogya M/A basic school have teamed up to erect structures. The school,...

Bolgatanga Technical Institute shut down over student clashes

The Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region has been shut down following ethnic clashes between two student groups. This is, however, not the...

SHS placement to be out on this day

Barring any last-minute hitches, this year’s schools placement will be out on Sunday, February 21, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor...

Botweburg donates Covid-19 protective items to Nii Sowah Din schools

Botweburg, a social club made up of professionals from varied backgrounds in Accra, has made a donation to the Nii Sowa Din Memorial Cluster...

Read: Facts about the mathematical set, calculator issue

Following the parliamentary vetting of Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh on Friday 12th February 2021, the following facts must be made clear in response to the...

Pupils stranded as unknown persons lock classrooms [video]

Pupils of the Nana Badu Bonsu Junior High School and Methodist Primary School in the Western Region had the shock of their...

Henry Godson-Afful donates to UCC [Photos]

A United Kingdom-based educational consultant and Reverend Minister, Henry Godson-Afful, has donated technological gadgets to the Department of Business and Social Sciences of the...

What Adutwum will still do if he becomes Education Minister

Education Minister-designate, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, says he will still go to classrooms to teach even after he is confirmed for the job by...

Over 11,000 students refused admission to UDS

The University for Development Studies (UDS) offered 16,763 applicants admission to study various undergraduate programs in the 2020-2021 academic year. However, out of the total...

Students beg for water as shortage hits Damango [Photos]

Students of Damango Senior High School (SHS) in the Savannah Region are calling on the authorities to help with water supply after an acute...

Napo apologises to Mahama

Former Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has rendered an unqualified apology to former President John Mahama over allegations made against him regarding the 2019...

I don’t regret accessing GETFund scholarship, I will do it again if… – Opoku-Prempeh

Manhyia South Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has revealed he does not regret benefiting from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Scholarship. When the...

Former UG Vice Chancellor passes on

A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Emeritus Prof. George Benneh, has passed on. The 87-year-old died on Thursday at his East Legon...

Obuasi SecTech designs touchless dustbin for persons with disabilities [Video]

Good news for children and persons with disabilities as students of the Obuasi Senior Technical School have created a touchless dustbin. One of the students,...

UCC debunks claims of drop in 2021 Universities’ Ranking

The University of Cape Coast has debunked claims circulating in the media that its position had dropped in the 2021 ranking of Universities in...

Cancellation of licensure exams: Adutwum states position

Minister-designate for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, says he would not advocate for the cancellation of the licensure exams because it’s a way of...

We leave women out of sciences at our own peril – Kwesimintsim MP

Women in Ghana, according to the Global Education Monitoring Team in 2018, account for less than a quarter of all Science, Technology, Engineering, and...

Coronavirus: Kennedy Agyapong wades into re-closure of schools

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has called for the re-closure of schools and churches following a rise in Covid-19 cases in...

Coronavirus: Akosombo Int’l School begins shift system

Akosombo International School is set to begin a shift system to curb the spread of Covid-19 infection in the school. This comes on the...

Pressure mounts on govt to close down schools 3 weeks into re-opening

The Executive Director of Child Rights International, Bright Appiah, has joined calls by some teacher unions for government to close down schools just three...

GES staff accused of demanding money from private schools before supply of PPE

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools is calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to investigate some personnel in its office who demand...

University of Energy And Natural Resources records 5 COVID-19 cases

The University of Energy And Natural Resources in Sunyani in the Bono Region has recorded five COVID-19 cases. At it’s 3rd emergency meeting held on...

Covid-19: 23 schools in Accra, other regions record cases

Some 23 schools in the Greater Accra Region have recorded 56 cases of coronavirus. A number of cases have also been recorded in Senior High...

Two JHS pupils thought to have been kidnapped found with their boyfriends

Two female pupils of the St. Louis Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi, who were allegedly kidnapped have been found with their boyfriends, Police...

Why this virologist is calling for closure of kindergarten, lower primary schools

A virologist at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research, Dr Michael Owusu, has called on the government to take a firm decision to close...

Coronavirus: 13 tertiary institutions record cases

The Chairman of Vice-Chancellors Ghana, Professor John Owusu Gyapong, has revealed that active Covid-19 cases recorded in some of Ghana’s universities are...

Two JHS pupils allegedly kidnapped

Police in the Ashanti Region have mounted a search for persons believed to be behind the alleged kidnapping of two female pupils of the...

Coronavirus: Case count at Akosombo Int’l School shoots up again

Some 37 more Covid-19 cases have been recorded at the Akosombo International School, the Executive Director of National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA,) has disclosed. Dr...