Education

A study has revealed that some students at basic schools in the northern part of the country prefer to be taught Sexual Reproductive Health Education (SRHE) because their parents are not able to discuss such issues with them. The study...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed satisfaction with the Free Senior High School policy, introduced by his administration in September 2017, that is currently guaranteeing a minimum of senior high school education for the majority of Ghana’s children. According...

Early Childhood Education in the Upper East Region is getting to a low ebb with the lack of trained teachers, classroom blocks, and furniture. Ms Ivon Wonchua, the Assistant Director, Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council, said: “There were...

An interim National Executive Association of Muslim Societies in Tertiary Institutions, Ghana (MUSTIG) has been inaugurated at its second Strategic Conference held at Lakeside University College in Accra on Friday November 12, 2021. The conference saw the appointment of Professor...

Junior High School (JHS) admission forms in the Zabzugu District of the Northern Region are gradually becoming scarce with primary six pupils scrabbling for the forms to have access to JHS education. A report by the Africa Education Watch said...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has appointed, Professor (Mrs) Rosemond Boohene as the new Pro Vice- Chancellor. This was announced in a communique signed by Mr. Jeff Teye Onyame, Registrar and Secretary to the University Council Secretariat, and copied...

The Ghana education service will from Tuesday November 24, 2021 begin sensitizing and educating the public, particularly parents, candidates and teachers on this year’s guidelines for school selection into various Senior High Schools across the country. GES in a statement...

Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwa has directed all Regional and District Directors of Education to work closely with their colleague Regional and District Directors of Health to facilitate the vaccination of all...

Government through the finance ministry has given financial clearance to the Ghana Education Service to recruit some sixteen thousand, eight hundred and fifty (16,850) Newly Trained Teachers for the Service. A media release by the finance ministry said, “approval is...

Executive Director of the African Education Watch, Kofi Asare has described the teacher trainee allowance policy as an “anomaly” that must be cancelled. Mr. Asare thus called on government to use the 2022 budget statement as an opportunity to cancel...