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Lack of a toilet facility in a school in Accra has caused the pregnancy of a 15-year-old Junior High School (JHS) student. Names of the student and the school including the headmistress who made the disclosure, have been withheld to avoid name-shaming and stigmatisation. The bizarre revelation was made in …

Management of Senior High Technical School for the Deaf at Akuapem-Mampong in Eastern Region is alarmed by the rise in smuggling of mobile phones to school by some hearing impaired students for pornography viewing, betting and staking of lotto. The issue has been constantly raised during general meetings of Parents …

A professor of public health nutrition at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Francis Zotor, has expressed worry over the poor meals given to students under the National School Feeding Programme. According to him, most of the food served to the pupils is nutritionally deficient, a situation he lamented …

A father of 3-year-old boy who was allegedly neglected by school authorities at the St. Peter’s Cambridge School, Takoradi, has sued the school for its negligence. According to Astu Charan Kamal Kanta Kole, father of the boy, he took his son to the school because he was of the understanding …

A raging fire has destroyed a compound house and wooden structures meant for remedial classes for Senior High School (SHS) students at Bubuashie in the Greater Accra Region. The structures, according to reports, are located behind the Accra Academy SHS. The cause of the fire is yet to be established. …

Prof. Kwaku Asare, a US-based lawyer, has asked law students to boycott the Ghana School of Law exams amid reports of the undertaking they are being made to sign for the exam. Speaking on The Big Issue, he urged students to defend their LLB degrees. “They can do so by boycotting …

A Philanthropist, Mr. Samuel Quansah Quarcoo has donated educational materials worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to Westside School at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra region for onward distribution to needed schools. Among the materials he donated are shoes, school bags, mathematical sets, textbooks, notebooks, boxes of A4 sheets, pens, pencils, …

A US-based retired Ghanaian Teacher, Mr Samuel Quansah Quarcoo has donated items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to Emmaus Met Awoshie School Complex at Awoshie’s last stop in the greater Accra region. In a short ceremony to hand over the items, the Philanthropist noted that quality education was the most …

The Akyem Anyinasin Methodist Junior High School in Abuakwa North Municipality in Eastern region has been closed down by the Ghana Education Service after a gang from the community forced a male teacher to kneel and apologize for punishing some students. The teacher reportedly disciplined some students for misconduct on …

Authorities have suspended the inter-schools and colleges competition in Sekondi-Takoradi after clashes between Ghana Secondary Technical School [GSTS] and Saint Mary’s Boys SHS. Three people reportedly got injured in the process leaving one student with a head injury while one teacher lost his teeth and a GSTS bus badly damaged. …