EDUCATION

Reports that government’s flagship Free Senior High School, Free SHS, policy, is set to be reviewed are not true. This is according to Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng, who spoke in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM on Friday, July 22, 2022. “So far as …

Senior High Schools across the country will not participate in the National Science and Maths Quiz (NMSQ) until further notice. The Conference of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), which announced this said, inter-school sports and debate competitions and other extra-curricular activities have also been suspended. This is as a result of …

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, has disclosed that the government is currently reviewing the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy. According to Prof Opoku Amankwah, the review is to determine which benefits of the Free SHS will be relinquished by the government …

Member of Parliament for Builsa South Dr. Clement Apaak has suggested that the 2022 calendar for the 2022 BECE and WASSCE would be affected because the government has started the West African Examination Council of the needed resources for the two examinations. The MP says the government has not released any money to the …

Students of the University of Ghana, Legon do have a good time with their partners in their respective halls and hostels. In fact, some are able to house their girlfriends and boyfriends in their closets as they live like married couples. A trending video reveals the extent to which some …

Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022. This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia — have returned to …

Suspected thieves have broken into the AME Zion primary school at Buni within Jaman North District of the Bono region and made away with five Laptop computers. Assembly member for the Bui Electoral Area, Okyere Bediako Charles disclosed that the school’s headmaster had visited the school when he was notified …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has stated that academic work in various pre-tertiary institutions will resume fully on Monday, July 18, 2022. It will be recalled that four pre-tertiary teacher unions declared an indefinite strike action on July 4 following the failure of the government to pay the 20% Cost …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said its support for Ghana will not scrap Free SHS. It noted that its program aims to protect the vulnerable. The Fund noted that the Free SHS policy needs to be protected describing it as innovative. In its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), cited by ModernGhana …

As the teacher’s strike drags on, students at the Walewale Senior High Technical School in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region are being forced to assume the duties of the school caterers by making their own meals in the dining hall. The students were spotted eating rice …