EDUCATION

2022 Pay Roll Auditing Of GES Staff To Begin- Check Date And Details

May 30, 2022

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is to commence an internal pay roll auditing exercise across all districts, municipals and metropolitans in Ghana. The various District and Municipal Directors of Education has therefore issued communiques notifying its respective Head teachers about the decision to embark on a internal pay roll audit which commences in May 2022 […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Education Minister will be summoned in connection with $1.2m ‘phantom’ scandal – Dr Apaak

May 26, 2022

Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee, Dr Clement Apaak is pushing for a Parliamentary probe into allegations that the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum supervised the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcome Project at an estimated cost of $1.2 million for some 40,000 teachers. Speaking on the development, Dr Apaak argued that the country […]Continue Reading

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Publishers start printing textbooks for new curriculum; books to be ready in 120 days – President of Publishers Association

May 23, 2022

There is finally a glimmer of hope that the no textbooks syndrome associated with the Standard Curriculum will be a thing of the past. Ghanaian publishers will finally begin printing textbooks for basic schools across the country. Primary schools have been without textbooks for three years since government introduced the new curriculum. The Ghana National […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Tolon SHS shut down following fire

May 19, 2022

Authorities at Tolon Senior High School have temporarily closed down the school following a fire outbreak earlier Thursday, May 19. The fire razed down the entire girls’ dormitory block. According to the headmaster of the school, Amadu Issifu, the decision to close down the school is to allow them put together a temporary accommodation for […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

School Feeding Caterers To Meet With Gov’t Over Threat To Boycott Cooking

May 17, 2022

The School Feeding Caterers Association of Ghana is set to meet with government today, Monday, May 16, 2022, over their decision to stop cooking. School children who are beneficiaries of  the National School Feeding Program will be without food as the caterers have vowed not to cook if the government fails to increase their allocation […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION POLITICS

Western Regional Minister hopeful gov’t will meet demands of school feeding caterers

May 17, 2022

The Western Regional Minister, Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah is upbeat that government will meet the demands of the school feeding caterers for them to resume work. The caterers are demanding an increase of their feeding grant from 97 pesewas to 3 cedis to meet the high cost of food prices on the market. The minister […]Continue Reading

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Vigil held in honour of slain CCTU student

May 17, 2022

Students of Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) have held a candlelight vigil in honour of slain Nana Ama Clark. All clad in black, the distraught colleagues held a two-hour procession which began at the school’s roundabout. They spoke about how Nana Ama would rise to every occasion and meet every challenge with a big heart. […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Gov’t converts Colleges of Education to degree awarding institutions

May 16, 2022

The Ministry of Education has converted all public Colleges of Education into four-year bachelor of education degree-awarding institutions. According to the ministry, the conversion forms part of reform strategies for education in the country. Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Kwesi Kwarteng says the Ministry has embarked on the construction of Continue Reading

EDUCATION

Free SHS implementation depriving basic schools of adequate funds to procure textbooks – Eduwatch Research Fellow

May 12, 2022

A Research Fellow with the Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has said government’s attempt to keep its flagship Free Senior High School policy afloat is depriving basic schools of adequate resources, barely three years into the implementation of the new education curriculum. Among other challenges facing basic education, Divine Kpe stated that there is lack of […]Continue Reading