Prof. Gabriel Dwomoh, the Vice-Chancellor of the Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) has expressed concern about the non-release of GetFund allocated to the University its effect. According to him, the Institution is yet to receive more than 10 million Ghana Cedis from GETFund for pre-financing the construction of the …
Read More »GETFund clarifies number of E-blocks completed
Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has clarified the number of E-blocks (Community Day high school projects) it has completed as of December 2016. It follows what the Fund says is ‘political media debate’ on the projects particularly being fueled by the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress …
Read More »Rotting E-blocks: Minority demands accountability for $1.5bn GETFund facility
The Minority in Parliament has served notice that it will trigger a series of actions to demand accountability from thegovernment in respect of some abandoned E-block projects started by the John Mahama administration. Wrapping up a two-day tour of the Greater Accra, Volta and Eastern regions to ascertain the progress …
Read More »Hon. Boniface Accounts To Constituents As He Seeks For Another Term
Hon Abu-Bakar Sadiq Boniface Member of Parliament for Madina, Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, has taken good governance to the doorsteps of his people as he accounts to the constituents for his three and half years of Parliamentary Stewardship. The Member of Parliament used the opportunity to outline …
Read More »Stop sending me ‘love letters’ – GETFund Administrator to scholarship applicants
Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is warning prospective scholarship applicants to follow due process. GETFund Administrator, Richard Ampofo Boadu, bemoaned how some applicants address the letter personally to him for favour. This conduct, he said, goes against most of the applicants who are qualified for the scholarships. Speaking in an …
Read More »GETFund terminates non-performing contractors’ contracts
The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has ordered for the termination of all non-performing contractors’ contracts which has been abandoned for the past six months or more, with reference to Clause 59.2 (g) of the general conditions of contracts. GETFund has, therefore, directed the Education Minister, Regional Ministers, Coordinating Directors …
Read More »Trainee teachers welcome Jane Naana as Mahama’s running mate
A group of trainee teachers have welcomed the selection of former Education Minister Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as running mate for former President John Dramani Mahama in the December polls. According to the teachers, the academician ensured that “all Trained Teachers from Colleges of Education were duly employed directly into the Ghana Education …
Read More »LEAKED DOCUMENTS: Applicant exposes GETfund in €12,000 scholarship fraud in March 2016
It is emerging that a tall list of persons who were purported to have to have benefited from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) scholarships did not receive financial support after all if the latest revelations are anything to go by. One such person is Ms Anifa Musah a resident …
Read More »Getfund Directed To Address Shortage Of Dormitories, Classrooms In SHSs
Government has directed the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to undertake educational infrastructure projects in all public senior high schools (SHSs) for successful implementation and sustenance of the Free SHS Policy. Madam Gifty Twum-Ampofo, the Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET), who announced this …
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