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Kenya’s education ministry has said that all primary and secondary schools will reopen next year. The ministry said all students would resume studies in their current classes. Education Minister George Magoha said no final-year national examinations would be held for primary and secondary pupils this year. Those exams are usually …

Water tanks holding thousands of litres of water are being installed in deprived Eastern Cape schools as part of an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the cash-strapped province.   More than 1,500 schools were earmarked to receive the 5,000l tanks as a temporary sanitation measure led by the …

    The Kumbungu Divisional Command have arrested Adam Osman, 25, for allegedly stealing food items at Kumbungu D/A Primary B belonging to the Ghana school feeding program in the district. The items stolen by the suspect included two bags of maize, five bags of beans, and 25 jerricans of …

President Akufo-Addo has announced the re-opening of schools and universities to allow final year students to begin classes ahead of the conduct of their respective exit examinations. During his 10th televised address, the president said, “Indeed, final year university students are to report to their universities on 15th June; final …

Teachers in South Africa want the planned reopening of schools on 1 June halted, Independent Online news website reports. Educators Union of SA (Eusa) general secretary Siphiwe Mpungose is quoted as saying that they will file a court application on Monday against the Department of Basic Education (DBE). The DBE …

Assistant Headmaster in charge of Academic, Apostle Safo School of Arts and Sciences at Awoshie Last Stop, Accra, Hughes Lartey, has cautioned the government against the re-opening of schools in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.   In his firm estimation, school children, especially those in the lower primary, …

A day’s training workshop on the Covid-19 has been organized for regional information officers (RIOs) of the Information Services Department in Accra. Organized by the Ministry of Information in collaboration with the Ghana Health Services (GHS), it was to equip the officers with the requisite knowledge and techniques for disseminating …

A cursory look at the discouraging educational support received in Bonsaho among other socio-economic deprivations provides a textbook demonstration of cases in similar areas across the country left unattended. The school is found in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District in the Central Region. On a visit to the town after a frustrating journey through …

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the government has secured a piece of land to build a shelter and school for street children in the national capital. “Land has been provided by the government through the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) for the construction of accommodation and a school for street …

If multiple nondevelopment challenges were a disease, the Aninkromah D/A basic school in the Atwima Nwabeagya District of the Ashanti Region, will be the exact embodiment of the condition. The community’s only school serving three hundred and seventy students is facing dire infrastructure challenges. Old clay built classrooms used by …