EDUCATION

It is the well-considered opinion of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council to hold up to its responsibility in relation to the affairs of the Bright Senior High School situated at Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa North District of the Eastern Region. Particular emphasis is the conduct over the past decade of …

Dismissed Students To Undergo Professional Counseling…  

The Ghana Education Service must think of reintroducing corporal punishment to instill discipline in most schools across the country, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Phillipa Larson has stated. Speaking on Morning Starr, Madam Larson said the behaviour of some candidates in the ongoing West African Senior …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has the power to suspend candidates who fail to abide by the rules and regulations in the ongoing examinations, the West African Examination Council has said. In backing the Ghana Education Service’s decision to suspend 14 students who caused mayhem in their senior high schools, …

The 50-year-old security man of the Northern School of Business, Mba Wulana, who was injured after a scuffle with a final year student has passed on. This comes less than a month after a 22-year-old student of the school, Sadat Yussif, allegedly pushed the security man, who then fell on …

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to reconsider the decision to ban some 14 students from writing the ongoing WASSCE following their involvement in the recent chaos in their schools. In a statement Sunday, the President directed the Education Minister to intervene in order to ensure that …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday, August 7, 2020, issued a press release to dismiss some 14 students for engaging in acts of indiscipline as well as interdicting three teachers for their alleged roles in some of the reported cases. The affected students, per their dismissal letters, are barred …

The Ministry of Education says there are no immediate plans to reopen schools from next month for full academic activities. Consequently, it has called on the public to ignore reports to that effect. “The ministry will like to state categorically that aside from final-year students who are in school, the …

The government is being urged to introduce alternative public education examination bodies to break the monopoly currently enjoyed by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). According to the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, this will force the West African examination body to sit up and act …

Bright Amponsah, the proprietor of Bright Senior High School at Kukurantumi in the Eastern region has reportedly been picked up by police from the Eastern Regional command. The arrest follows allegations of assault by some students of the school on West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) invigilators upon his alleged command …