It would cost the government about $200 million to renovate dilapidated basic school structures across the country. This is according to Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, who has said the government has identified about 8,000 basic schools that need urgent refurbishment. Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, the Minister said the schools identified … Read more
About 200 candidates in three communities in the Northern Region who could not write two papers on the first day of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are to sit for the exams in January 2018. This follows a decision of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to allow the affected students another opportunity. … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has described the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) as very successful and one of the best held in the history of the examination. The BECE ended today, Friday, June, 9, 2017 after the over four hundred and sixty thousand candidates completed the Junior High School(JHS) level exams that lasted … Read more
Some supervisors of the ongoing BECE are asking pupils to contribute not less than Gh?10 each Some supervisors of the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are asking pupils to contribute not less than Gh?10 each so they can have the space to cheat. Other examiners are alleged to have made contacts with school managers … Read more
A child’s rights activist, Bright Appiah, has called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to be flexible enough to allow the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in Bunkpurugu who were not able to sit for their first two papers to do so at a more immediate time. The … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has wished candidates participating in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) success. “The very best of luck to the 468,053 beginning today (which was yesterday). Free SHS awaits you in September 2017. Seize this opportunity with both hands and open the door to your own and Ghana’s bright future,” … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has wished candidates participating in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) success. “The very best of luck to the 468,053 beginning today. Free SHS awaits you in September 2017. Seize this opportunity with both hands and open the door to your own and Ghana’s bright future,” Mr Akufo-Addo tweeted. The very … Read more
A total of 468,053 candidates are expected to sit for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which begins today [Monday] across the country. The Ghana Education Service (GES), has however warned candidates and their teachers to desist from any examination malpractice during the exams. According to the service, it will sanction severely any teacher who … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES), has said it is ready to pay all invigilators all outstanding arrears. This comes after threats from some invigilators in the Agortime-Ziope district of the Volta Region that they would boycott the Basic Education Certificate Examination over GES’ indebtedness to them. According to the invigilators, their allowances have been in … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES), has said it is ready to pay all invigilators all outstanding arrears. This comes after threats from some invigilators in the Agortime-Ziope district of the Volta Region that they would boycott the Basic Education Certificate Examination over GES’ indebtedness to them. According to the invigilators, their allowances have been in … Read more
Almost two months after 3FM 92.7’s Community Connect programme took up the issue of the non-existence of a place of convenience for the Kanda Estates Cluster of Schools, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has woken up to its task and finishing a 12-seater facility that was left idle for over two years. The lack of the … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it will not be moved by the demands of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in the Central Region to pay arrears owed some teachers who have been promoted. This, the GES explains, is because there has been a prior agreement with all teacher unions to scrap such … Read more
Reopening of second cycle institutions in the three regions of the north is in limbo because of government’s failure to reimburse three consecutive terms’ Feeding Grants. Continuing students are to stay home until further notice, whereas their counterparts in southern Ghana have resumed their course work. Heads of the affected schools have vowed never to … Read more
All heads of public basic schools across the country have been directed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to re-open school tomorrow, May 9, 2017. This is to enable both the primary and Junior High Schools (JHS) to begin academic activities for the third term in the 2016/2017 academic year. This directive follows a press … Read more
Second Cycle Institutions in the Upper East Region that are yet to receive their feeding grants from the government will do so soon, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said. The Public Relations Officer of the GES, Reverend Jonathan Bettey, said processes have been initiated to ensure that the payments are made to the school … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it cannot completely dismiss all the reasons why some of its employees, especially, teachers, had come forward to effect changes in their date of birth. According to the public institution, a good number out of the 800 people who had applied to effect a change in their date of … Read more
Some 500 students of the St. Charles Senior High School in Tamale in the Northern Region who were sent home after a fire outbreak destroyed their dormitory are expected back in school tomorrow. The students, who were left stranded after the incident, were asked to go for some clothes and other materials they might need. … Read more
The Ghana Education Service (GES) will only order the reopening of schools in the Banda Ahenkro district in the Brong Ahafo Region when the security situation in the area improves. An unidentified group in the area is fiercely opposed to all government workers who are not natives of the district and wants all people they … Read more
The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Rev. Jonathan Bettey has instructed teachers especially those in public schools to desist from beating pupils and students with canes. He said the GES does not approve of teachers using canes in whipping students when they go wrong adding that is not the only means … Read more
The Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has refuted the claims attributed to him to the effect that basic and second cycle school headteachers, who oversee failure rates of 90 percent and above will be sacked. Dr. Opoku Prempeh, as he rubbished the claims, also vowed to resign if there is any proof of such … Read more