EDUCATION

Minister for Information and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase Ayirebi Constituency, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has addressed concerns over COVID-19 infected students who might miss this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) due to their health state. According to the Information Minister, the directions from the Ghana Education …

A year after an explosive expose? by BBC Africa Eye detailing how lecturers in some universities in West Africa sexually harassed their students, two more victims have come out to share stories of how they got trapped in the cycle. In Nigeria, the senate has passed tough new legislation to …

With the imminent entry of qualified Free SHS graduates Into Universities this year, It is anticipated that already overwhelmed universities in Ghana will be further burdened by the sharp rise in the number of qualified applicants who will be competing for places during the 2020 admissions.   Not much infrastructural development …

The National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) has hinted some critical features in the new Educational Reform to be implemented soon in Ghana’s Educational System. When the new curriculum is implemented, learners/pupils in Junior High Schools will have to attend school for four years, thus: JHS 1 to JHS 4. …

The West African Examination Council earlier this month released a new timetable for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates. The new timetable was released after the West African Examination Council (WAEC) got approval from the Ministry of Education. The examination starts from today, Monday, …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked students, teachers and invigilators who will be involved in the conduct of the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to abide by COVID-19 protocols. “Just as has been done over the course of the last four weeks, since their return …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has confirm the death of a final year Senior High School (SHS) student at Methodist Girls High School located at Mamfe in the Eastern region. The final year SHS student died just a few weeks after resumption of academic work to prepare for the final …

A number of the University of Ghana students have started a petition on social media to get authorities of their school to rescind its decision of making them come back to school to write their resit examinations. The Management of the University of Ghana says students of the University who registered for …

Quarantined students of Accra Girls Senior High School were like,’ to hell with coronavirus’, let’s twerk and have some fun, after all, death is inevitable and truly ── they twerked heavily in the video below ── probably, to shake coronavirus away. In a video sighted by A2zgh.com on Zacknation Dotnet posted on …

Ms Rejoice Biscoff, the Birim Central Municipal Director for National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has advised students to avoid lending their textbooks to their friends to prevent the possibility of transferring the virus to one another. She advised the students to stop stigmatization against victims of the coronavirus because …