EDUCATION

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, …

Inadequate furniture at the Adjikpo Dokuyo M/A Basic School at Adjikpo, a suburb of Somanya in the Eastern Region is affecting academic work in the school. Reports say most parents end up withdrawing their children from school as a result of the problem. Despite a fairly good classroom block to …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has interdicted a Junior High School teacher for sexually assaulting a form three female pupil of Dekpema M/A Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern region. Imoro Eliasu is currently under investigation for sexual assault by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) …

Professor Mawutor Avoke, who has just been reinstated as the substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), says his focus will be on peace of the university, reconciliation and unity. He pledged to work with the University Council to help address outstanding issues. “I don’t want to over-rehash …

The lack of classroom infrastructure at the St. Francis Anglican Junior High School (JHS) at Tokuroano in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region has led to pupils making use of palm frond sheds instead of a classroom. The pupils and teachers have used the palm fronds structure as …

A Second-year Optometry student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi has been killed by a speeding vehicle. Emmanuelle Afia Ayetey, 26, was standing by the roadside with four other people at Ayeduase, near KNUST, when the vehicle hit a gutter pillar, somersaulted and hit …