A group of female Senior High School (SHS) students have issued a strong warning to married women in the country. In a video circulating on social media, the students are asking women to hide their husbands before they vacate from school. “Wives, please hide your husbands because we the high school girls are about to […]Continue Reading
The Holy Trinity Cathedral Senior High School (HOTCASS) in the Greater Accra Region, is rotting away, with roofing of some of the classroom blocks either removed or fallen apart. The situation is currently affecting both teaching and learning, as academic activities often come to a halt, anytime it rains. The Anchor has gathered that the […]Continue Reading
Some school feeding caterers in the Western Region have picketed at the offices of the School Feeding Programme Secretariat in Accra, agitating over the non-payment of monies owed them for preparing meals for pupils. They say their monies have been in arrears for more than three school terms. The caterers, numbering about 50, are part […]Continue Reading
Academic activities at the Walewale Technical Senior High School in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region have been suspended following a heavy rainstorm. The storm destroyed some school properties Tuesday morning. Classroom blocks, dinning hall and a dormitory block have been totally ripped off, causing the school to suspend academic work. Headmaster Continue Reading
The Child Rights International (CRI) has asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to investigate the circumstances that led to the Police shooting at the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. A statement issued by CRI said the presence of the Police on any school campus especially one inhabited by minors should be friendly and in […]Continue Reading
Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) as part of its quest to connect young Ghanaians to relevant knowledge resources that improve their well-being has outdoored 10 Youth Engagement Centers (YECs) across eight regions. At a short ceremony in Accra, the Executive Director of GhLA, Mr. Hayford Siaw, in explaining the rationale behind the concept of YECs, said, […]Continue Reading
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has handed down a one-week ultimatum to the Defence and Interior Committee to embark on a fact-finding mission to Kumasi over the incidence of alleged police brutality at the Islamic Senior High School (SHS). A protest in the school turned chaotic when police met students with force, leading to […]Continue Reading
The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Ghana Highways Authority, has installed rumble strips on roads near the Islamic Senior High School to help check unnecessary speeding on the newly-built Abrepo Junction road in the Ashanti Region. The Deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ministry of Education, Mr Yaw Opoku Mensah disclosed this […]Continue Reading
The Ministry of Education has launched investigations into Monday’s chaos on the campus of Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. At least 30 students of the school were hospitalised following a clash between irate students and crowd-control police there. The students were protesting against pedestrian knockdowns involving some students and teachers of the school. Rev […]Continue Reading
President of the African University College (AUCC), Professor Abeku Blankson, has expressed his worry over Ghana’s educational system producing dependent and non-functioning university graduates. In an interview on the Transformation Agenda Series show on Class FM last Saturday, he revealed that Ghana’s educational system is raising an army of graduates who have no skill Continue Reading
