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VIDEO: Check out the poor state of dining tables of Pope John SHS

MyNewsGh.com has sighted a video on dining hall tables of one of Ghana’s reputable Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Eastern Region, and it an eyesore. The dining tables of Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) which has been placed at the mercy of the weather has its slabs rotten to …

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Over 40% of basic schools don’t have toilet facilities – GAMA-SWP

More than 40% of basic schools in Ghana do not have sanitation facilities, the Ghana Sanitation and Water Project has revealed. According to managers of the project, in a few cases where the facilities exist, they’re found in terrible shape. To meet the global SDG six target, Ghana needs to …

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44,000 teachers fail teacher licensure examinations

Over 36% of teachers who wrote the 2022 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination have failed, according to the registrar for the National Teaching Council, Christian Addai-Poku. The percentage represents 44,000 out of the 120,000 teachers who sat for the examination. Speaking about the poor performance of the candidates, the registrar remarked …

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Snakes chase away Enyan Abaasa Anglican basic school students, teachers

Teachers and students of the Enyan Abaasa Anglican Basic School in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region are constantly being chased by snakes during school hours among many challenges confronting the school. This is because the school building has no doors and windows, thus making it accessible …

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Debt Exchange: It’ll be suicidal to touch our Tier-3, teachers fund – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has waded into the on-going debate on the government’s impending Debt Exchange Program set to be rolled out. According to the teachers, they are interested stakeholders on the Domestic Bond Market, running on the Teachers Fund with its subsidiaries, the Tier-3 Pension Scheme …

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Prospective teacher trainees to write entrance exams from 2023

Applicants seeking admissions into Colleges of Education in Ghana will from 2023 be expected to write an entrance exam. The exam will be based on two core subjects; Mathematics and English. The Chief Director at the Ministry of Education, Divine Ayidzoe, disclosed this at a conference on teacher training with stakeholders. Mr …

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2022 WASSCE results prove Free SHS is working well – Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the results of the 2022 batch of students who wrote the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as the best in the last eight years. According to President Akufo-Addo, “six (6) years on following the implementation of the …

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WAEC orders over 8,000 ‘indebted’ students to pick WASSCE results from their schools

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has asked 8,486 candidates in the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), to pick their results from their various schools. These are students deemed to have either damaged school property or failed to return school property in their care. It was disclosed …

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Tears flow at KNUST as associate professor passes on

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been thrown into a state of mourning following the demise of one of the lecturers. Dr Richard Tia was an associate professor and a computational and theoretical chemist of the Department of Chemistry of the College of Sciences. According to …

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WASSCE 2022: WAEC cancels entire results of 518 ‘mobile phone’ candidates

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the cancellation of the entire results of some 518 candidates who sat the 2022 West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). In all, a total of 422,883 candidates made up of 219,130 females and 203,753 males sat this year’s examination. “The subject …

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