UEW Brouhaha: UTAG Charges CJ To Probe Matter

Some members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have urged the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to probe what happened in court on June 13, 2017 concerning the university to redeem its image. According to them, the recent court injunction slapped on the university was bastardising and … Read more

LUCAS College Enters Ghana’s Education Sector

LUCAS College has held its maiden Press Conference to announce its presence in Ghana’s educational sector. Accredited in December 2016, LUCAS College made it their prime mission to bridge the gap between Academia and Industry and equip students for success in the professional world. Some of the guests present were Human Resource Partner IBM, Andy … Read more

Kanda Schools End Term With “Get Into Rugby” Touch Competition

The “Get Into Rugby” (GIR) Development Officers at Kanda Estate Cluster of Schools organised the end of the third term break touch rugby games for the schools. Four schools participated in the World Rugby “Get Into Rugby” games. The girl’s games ended with Kanda Estate ‘1’ Basic emerging 1st, Islamic Training Institute 2nd, Al-Waleed Comprehensive … Read more

20 Ghanaian Students Get EU Scholarships

Twenty Ghanaian students from Universities across the country have been granted prestigious scholarships under the Erasmus+ programme for the year 2017. They will pursue courses at both Master and Doctoral level in European Universities. The scholarships are expected to help the twenty students acquire high level skills, knowledge and varied experience that will help them … Read more

Government Will Not Cater For Repeated Students

Free SHS Policy -The Education ministry has some bad news for students held back during their secondary education for non-performance. According to reports, repeated students will not be catered for in their extra year of study under the Free Senior High School (SHS) education policy. This was revealed by the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew … Read more

Let’s Look Into the ‘killer’ Fee Concern Raised By Students

SOMEWHERE last week, we carried on our front page a story on agitations on the Accra City Campus of the University of Ghana, Legon.  The agitations, as we reported, stemmed from the fact that there has been an almost ten per cent (10%) increment in the university’s fees for this academic year. ACCORDING to the students, this was … Read more

‘Govt Will Fund Free SHS’

Government of Ghana is fully funding the free Senior High School programme, Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has reaffirmed. This means the Akufo-Addo government will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards. Dr. Prempeh said this at the Meet-The-Press … Read more

30% SHS Quota To Benefit Students Nationwide

A change in the special 30 percent quota of admissions into public senior high schools will see spots reserved for qualified junior high school graduates from public basic schools nationwide. The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, during a press conference on Thursday, indicated that this was an improvement on the previous incarnation of the … Read more

Gov’t ‘unprepared’ For Free SHS Programme

Government’s plans to roll out the free Senior High School programme in September might not see the light of day if it fails to adequately prepare ahead of its implementation, Minority Spokesperson for Education, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe has cautioned. The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh had indicated that Ghana’s economic challenges will not prevent the New … Read more

U/E: 1,000 School Dropouts Get Complementary Basic Education

A total of 1,000 children who either dropped out of school or have never been in a classroom before have undergone a nine-month training in complementary basic education in Garu Tempane District of the Upper East. Aged between eight and 14 years, the children were taken through basic literacy and numeracy skills in their mother … Read more

‘Stone Mouse’ Teacher Deserves Promotion – Napo

Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said that if he had his way, he would promote rather than punish Augustine Kusi, the class six teacher of Assin Asamankese D/A Primary School in the Central Region, who was creative enough to have used stones to demonstrate how a computer mouse worked as he taught his … Read more

Economic Challenges Won’t Stop Free SHS – NAPO

Ghana’s economic strains will not prevent the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government from effectively implementing its Free Senior High School education policy, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asserted. Speaking at the press conference on Thursday, the Education Minister said the commitment to the Free SHS policy, earmarked to start in the 2017/2018 … Read more

JHS Student Stabbed To Death By Classmate

A 20-year-old, Mathew Opoku was yesterday [Wednesday] stabbed to death by his classmate, Elijah Namon. The deceased was stabbed in the chest. The two are JHS 1 students at the WESCO Demonstration Junior High School at Suame in Kumasi. The incident happened on the school’s premises. It is unclear what may have led to the … Read more

Free SHS Is For Only 2017 BECE Candidates; Not For Re-Entrants

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has given the clearest indication yet that government’s Free SHS Policy would not cater for persons who completed Junior High School before 2017. This means students who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in 2015 and 2016 who for some reasons could not go to school but want … Read more

Free SHS Won’t Cover Repeated Students

Students held back during their secondary education for non-performance will not be catered for in their extra year of study under the Free Senior High School education policy. This was revealed by the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, during a press conference on Thursday. Responding to a question on the status of students … Read more

Vice Chancellors Ghana Wades Into UEW Impasse

Vice Chancellors Ghana has charged the new Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to ratify all decisions taken by the previous Council. It maintained in a statement that the previous Council was backed by the then President in all decisions taken after its tenure expired in November, 2013. A Winneba High Court on … Read more

Economic Challenges Won’t Stop Free SHS

Ghana’s economic strains will not prevent the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government from effectively implementing its Free Senior High School education policy, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asserted. Speaking at the press conference on Thursday, the Education Minister said the commitment to the Free SHS policy, earmarked to start in the 2017/2018 … Read more

Speaker Petitioned Over ‘killer’ Fees

Some concerned students of the University of Ghana (UG) Legon have formally petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Ocquaye, over what they describe as exorbitant academic fees being charged by the school. The students are accusing the university authorities of arbitrarily increasing fees every new academic year, a situation they say compounds the … Read more

Stanbic Marks Mandela Day By Donating To La Yahoushua Prim. School

The Human Capital, and Marketing and Communications units of Stanbic Bank have extended a hand of support to the La Yahoushua Primary School in Accra in commemoration of this year’s Nelson Mandela Day. The Bank donated items worth GH¢8000 to the school pupils and also pledged to provide periodic support for the school. The items … Read more

Senegal Crackdown Fails To Improve Lot of Child Beggars

Dawn has barely broken as three of Senegal’s estimated 50,000 child beggars dart through the capital’s streets, hoping for a bag of sugar or a few coins to hand over to their teachers. Senegal’s “talibes” — children as young as four sent to Islamic boarding schools by their parents, then forced to earn their keep … Read more