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President Nana Akufo-Addo has sacked the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa. His termination was contained in a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo and dated October 17. “The Ministry of Education has informed this Office that the exigencies that required your skills and …

The tenure of office for the current Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Anthony Boateng has been extended. “I am pleased to inform you that the President of the Republic has granted you a further one-year of the contract of service as Deputy Director-General (Management Services) of the …

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 …

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 …

A circuit supervisor with Abuakwa North Municipal Education Directorate, Andrews Ampem Darko has died in a horrific motor accident whilst on his way to the office Monday morning. The supervisor who was riding a motorbike was crashed by another speeding motorbike with two pillion riders while crossing the Kukurantumi junction …

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 strike action declared by four teacher unions has hit basic and second-cycle institutions in the Hohoe Municipality as classrooms remain closed. The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana, (CCT-GH), announced …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed Heads of Senior High Schools to mobilise their management teams to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students in schools. GES further directed heads of basic schools not to shut down their facilities, despite the ongoing strike by teachers. This comes after …

Twenty-seven teachers in some basic schools in the North East Region have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for allegedly joining the service with fake appointment letters. The victims are said to have secured postings to the various schools with fake appointment and posting letters bearing the signature …

Following a claim by Michael Owusu Afriyie aka Teacher Kwadwo that he was dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) primarily because he refused to delete a video he had recorded which could incriminate some local officials, the government agency has rebutted, insisting that the former employee was sacked for …