EDUCATION

Officials of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have advised parents not to leave their wards’ school placements in the hands of teachers. Rodney Nkrumah Boateng, an official of CSSPS from the Education Ministry, speaking in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem on Thursday, revealed …

Secondary schools in the Volta region totaling 129 are currently undergoing the third phase of disinfection.   Some of the schools disinfected on the first day in the Volta Region were Ola Girls SHS, Wallahs Academy SHS, Prosper College, Mawuko Girls’ High school, Mawuli SHS, Adaklu SHS among others.   …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is advocating for a “one laptop and one modem per teacher” policy to support teachers in enhancing the learning experience of students within the COVID-19 period. Interacting with teachers at it 2020 stakeholders forum, President of GNAT, Mrs Philippa Larson noted that teachers …

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana, TUTAG, has warned that, government would face their wrath in the coming days if it refuses to address their concern on the subject of conditions of service. The last time TUTAG’s conditions of service was reviewed was in 2006, according to the union. …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has begun the process to recruit 16,500 trained teachers who completed the colleges of education last year. Earlier this year, the GES recruited 1,500 teachers in a special mop-up exercise for trained teachers who completed their studies in the 2017/2018 academic year but could not …

Africa’s dancehall artiste Shatta Wale appears in Ghana Education Service creative art test book The book published by Alpha and Omega series for Primary 4 pupils features the “Melissa” hitmaker in it. Shatta Wale’s works which were captured under Lesson 4 of the book talk about a brief biography of …

The Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region has recorded 43 pregnancies in the just ended West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Also, while 15 student nursing mothers took part in the examination, out of the total of 1838 girls registered, …

Director of Education for the Ghana Education Service in the Ahafo Region, Yaw Frimpong, has revealed that this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has seen the highest rate of examination absenteeism in the region. He noted that, out of 11,054 candidates who registered for the 2020 BECE, 107 pupils …

A teen boy was waiting just for his Junior High School (JHS) girlfriend to finish with her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) so he can propose marriage to her. According to the video making rounds on social media, the girl is a final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University …

Some teachers helping in the conduct of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been sanctioned by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC ) for taking either a Cedi or two Cedis from candidates sitting the exam and helping them to engage in multiple exam malpractices in the examination …