EDUCATION

100,000 Girls targeted for this year’s Girls-in-ICT (SHS)Training in Cyber Security and Data Privacy

  The Deputy Minister, Hon Ama Pomaa Boateng has opened the training of this year’s Girls in ICT for SHS on Cyber Security and Data Privacy targeted at a 100,000 girls across seven regions. The beneficiary regions are Northern, Bono East, Bono Ahafo, Volta and Oti. The Deputy Minister for …

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‘Looking at the facts, we don’t see rape’ – Lawyer of KNUST ‘gang-rape’ students

The Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, remanded six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, for allegedly gang-raping a first-year student. All six were in court for the first hearing of their case with the judge agreeing to a request by the …

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Watch how Headmaster, administrator busted for promoting exams malpractices

An investigation by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)’s Corruption Watch has uncovered the nefarious academic activities rife in two senior high schools in the Bono Region of Ghana. According to the report made available to GhanaWeb, it was discovered at the two schools: All For Christ Senior High/Technical School …

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LIVESTREAMING: Corruption Watch Ghana exposes corruption in WAEC examinations

Corruption Watch Ghana conducted a series of investigations into corruption allegations during West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examinations in various senior and junior high schools in Ghana. This investigation exposed the scheming ways of headteachers, teachers and invigilators during West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as well as Basic …

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VIDEO: Another rape case rocks KNUST, 6 students arrested

Six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology (KNUST) have reportedly gang-raped a first-year student at the university. According to a U TV news report, the victim was the girlfriend of one of the accused persons, who had previously invited her to have group sex with some friends, which …

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Bolgatanga Technical Institute closed down after final-year students riot

The Upper East Regional Minister,  Stephen Yakubu has asked students of the Bolgatanga Technical Institute to leave the school premises before 4pm today, 2 August 2022, following the rioting of some final-year students. The students destroyed school and staff properties after some of them were arrested on Monday, 1 August …

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2022 WASSCE begins today

This year’s West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will start from today, August 1, 2022, to Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Information from the West African Examinations Council’s (WAEC) website showed that the candidates would begin with project work subjects like basketry, ceramics and graphic design on Monday, August …

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3 KNUST students hospitalized after road accident on campus

At least three people believed to be students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are receiving treatment at the hospital after their vehicle got involved in an accident on campus. The accident which occurred around 6 pm on the Brunei-Katanga road involved a white Toyota Corolla …

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Philanthropist Samuel Quansah Quarcoo supports Westside School

A Philanthropist, Mr. Samuel Quansah Quarcoo has donated educational materials worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to Westside School at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra region for onward distribution to needed schools. Among the materials he donated are shoes, school bags, mathematical sets, textbooks, notebooks, boxes of A4 sheets, pens, pencils, …

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Samuel Quansah Quarcoo donates to Emmaus Met Awoshie School Complex

A US-based retired Ghanaian Teacher, Mr Samuel Quansah Quarcoo has donated items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to Emmaus Met Awoshie School Complex at Awoshie’s last stop in the greater Accra region. In a short ceremony to hand over the items, the Philanthropist noted that quality education was the most …

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