In 2003, I got the opportunity to teach in a junior high school in the central region. I was given the opportunity to represent my head teacher in most of the Ghana Education Service workshops and training programmes. Most of these workshops gave me an understanding of how our school system is managed and run … Read more
There were two major casualties at the end of the regional contest of the 2018 National Science and Maths Quiz for the Central Region. St Augustine’s College and Mfantsiman Girls’ Senior High School failed to book a place in the national contest. The regional contests are the qualification rounds for the quiz proper to be … Read more
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
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
The National Science and Maths Quiz for the last 23 years has whipped up interest in science, rekindled old school rivalry and in this social media age given Ghanaians something very productive to cheer about; never mind the trolls. The thrill has not been absent in the 2017 edition, which has been graced with its … Read more
The Local Content Unit in the Petroleum Directorate of the Ministry of Energy, is embarking on a gender mainstreaming tour of some selected Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country. This is to sensitize students on the fundamentals of Ghana’s Energy sector with key focus on the petroleum industry. In all, 12 senior high schools … Read more
Wesley Girls’ High School progressed to the quarter final stage of the National Science & Maths Quiz after they overcame Accra High Sch and ST. Charles Min. Seminary. These three victors will face each other in the next round. The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz, is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the … Read more
As part of its passion to support excellent youth talents in various fields of endeavor, Youth Excellent League (YEL), an empowerment programme by The BEIGE Foundation, is extending its recruitment to other regions of the country. Mike Nyinaku, founder and Chief Executive Officer of BEIGE, has made available a seed capital of GH¢ 2 million … Read more
The Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, officially closed the 10th edition of her annual mentoring programme in Accra last Wednesday. Being her last as Chief Justice, following her retirement on June 7, 2017, Mrs Justice Wood was honoured by the Kayayei Assocation for her immense contribution towards their uplift on the educational ladder. … Read more
The Edinaman Senior High School (SHS) emerged winners of the 2017 edition of the Central Regional Science and Maths Quiz competition held in Cape Coast on Friday. They bagged 52 points to beat University Practice SHS which came second with 36 points, followed by Adisadel College with 28 points. For their prizes, Edinaman received a … Read more
The Edinaman Senior High School (SHS) emerged winners of the 2017 edition of the Central Regional Science and Maths Quiz competition held in Cape Coast on Friday They bagged 52 points to beat University Practice SHS which came second with 36 points, followed by Adisadel College with 28 points. For their prizes, Edinaman received a … Read more
The Head of Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, has waded into the ongoing debate about the free Senior High School policy, saying it should be targeted at the poor. Whilst Professor Quartey believes it is a good social intervention programme, he expressed worry over the all-embracing coverage of the … Read more
There is the need to review the country’s educational system to identify the bottlenecks and fix them rather than scrapping the Junior High School (SHS) and Senior High School (SHS) system, David Ofori Acheampong, General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has said. According to him, inasmuch as some JHS and SHS … Read more
Parents aiming to secure admission for their wards at Adisadel College in the Central Region this year may be disappointed following the school’s decision to cut down on admissions by half. According to the management of the school, they have had to take that decision because of inadequate accommodation facilities. The headmaster of Adisadel College, … Read more
Authorities of Adisadel College in Cape Coast say the college will reduce by 50% its regular admission intake in the 2017/2018 academic year. Adisadel College reduced its intake from 920 students in the 2015/2016 academic year to 423 for the 2016/2017 academic year, a percent reduction of 54. Speaking at the School’s 107th anniversary and … Read more
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that the typical African politicians will not dare take their children to those schools”?P. L.O. Lumumba The debate about the appropriate funding model for the … Read more
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, the Most Rev. Titus Awotwi-Pratt, has given the strongest indication yet of the church’s determination to re-visit its partnership agreement with the government if the latter fails to enforce the values and tenets on which Methodist schools were founded. He said the Methodist Church, being a Christian … Read more
A statement made in parliament yesterday by Abena Osei-Asare, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa East in the Eastern Region, on the 180th anniversary of Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast, Central Region – which falls today – evoked a lot of strong emotions amongst MPs. It ignited a debate … Read more
“Everybody in this world has something special to offer. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are coming from, you can still do something to help humanity and that with God, all things are possible,” these were the words of the General Manager of Gold Coast, Mr. Boakye Mensah, when he shared his … Read more
Wesley Girls Senior High School has won the tenth anniversary edition of the Sprite Ball Championship after beating Kumasi Girls Senior High School 6-4 in the final game of the girls division at the El Wak Stadium. In the boys division, St. John’s School beat Pope John’s School 23-16 to clinch third spot. The ladies … Read more