EDUCATION

A headmaster of an undisclosed school somewhere in Ghana has been exposed by a female student for making advances towards her via WhatsApp. The schoolgirl, whose name is given as Serwaa, leaked the private chat between her and the headmaster revealing how the shameless old man was bent on cheating …

An old building housing children of the State Experimental Basic School in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, is in danger of collapse as three of its pillars have started falling apart.  The primary school building, built in the 1950s, has seen no major renovation, and parts of the pillars have …

A GETFund bus donated to the Bawjiase Senior High School (SHS) has been seized by the District Police Command. This comes after some supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) engaged in fisticuffs during a handing-over ceremony on Saturday. Information gathered by Adom News‘ Kofi …

Alot of students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are leaving the campus in frustration, as members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) continue with their strike. This comes in the wake of stalled negotiations between the striking teachers and the government to resolve …

The University of Ghana has announced plans to open City Campuses at Takoradi and Kumasi in the Western and Ashanti regions respectively. Both campuses will offer 2021/2022 undergraduate admissions for Bachelor of Science in Administration with options in Accounting, Banking, and Finance, Insurance, Public Administration, Health Service Administration, Human Resource …

The 2022 Global Universities Rankings by USNews and World Report Global Universities has placed the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) at number 12 in terms of best universities in Africa. The University of Ghana came in at Number 29 in the research performance and ratings that was …

A 37-year-old laboratory technician with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) hospital, Emelia Amekuji has been confirmed dead after an articulator truck ran over her at Anloga junction in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti region. The incident occurred on Thursday, 10 February 2022. The deceased’s four-month-old baby …

Africa Education Watch has called on Vice-Chancellors to close down all public universities until the UTAG strike is called off. The Africa Education Watch observed that five weeks of industrial action is yet to achieve any significant progress in negotiating a settlement to the impasse, hence the call for the …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers, (GNAT,) has protested the introduction of the Ghana Basic Education Skills Examination Test proposed by the National Teaching Council (NTC). According to the association, it is protesting against what it refers to as an attempt by the NTC to “craft a policy and arbitrarily …

Commercial sex workers operating around Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti Region have taken over the premises of the Kwadaso M/A Basic School using classrooms in the facility for their unscrupulous business. According to the teachers, the activities of Commercial sex workers are due to the absence of security and proper lighting systems at the school premises. According to them, …