Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has challenged the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions to improve their educational outcomes or stand the risk of having their institutions closed down. He explained that a school with a …
Read More »Issuing unapproved prospectus to Form 1 students prohibited – GES warn Heads of schools
Ghana Education Service (GES) has called on Heads of Second Cycle institutions across the country to stick to the approved harmonised prospectus for form one students. The GES also reminded Heads of Second Cycle institutions, that issuing unapproved prospectus and selling items supplied by government to students is prohibited. According …
Read More »Basic schools in Nyankpala closed down after sporadic gunshots
Basic schools in Nyankpala have closed down following sporadic gunshots near the Nyankpala Chief’s Palace on Thursday, February 9, 2023, in the afternoon. A visit to some basic schools in the community on Friday morning saw classrooms locked and deserted. Some school children who did not hear about the closure …
Read More »Two NGOs support three( 3) schools in Yilo Krobo- Obawale
Story by: Evans Kweku Oboafi Junior (HARDROCK) The Chief Executive Officer of OYE Foundation and KGL Foundation Miss. Abigail Anani and her team have donated Textbooks and other relief items to Schools at Obawale in the Yilo Krobo municipality of Eastern Region. According to Nenebi AYERTEY of Rite fm, …
Read More »The ‘original’ names of three prominent Ghanaians chiefs and the schools they attended
Togbe Afede XIV Togbe Afede XIV, the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State and President of Asogli Traditional Area was given the name James Akpo at birth. He was born on 23 April 1957. He is a twin whose twin brother Philip died at an early age. The great chief was …
Read More »Give private schools port duty waiver to acquire good buses – Government told
A journalist with Kumasi based first private radio station Otec, Nana Akwasi Acheampong well known in the media as Kanewu has called on Government and the education Ministry to support schools in the country especially private ones to get road worthy and durable school buses to ensure safety of children …
Read More »Over 40% of basic schools don’t have toilet facilities – GAMA-SWP
More than 40% of basic schools in Ghana do not have sanitation facilities, the Ghana Sanitation and Water Project has revealed. According to managers of the project, in a few cases where the facilities exist, they’re found in terrible shape. To meet the global SDG six target, Ghana needs to …
Read More »WAEC orders over 8,000 ‘indebted’ students to pick WASSCE results from their schools
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has asked 8,486 candidates in the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), to pick their results from their various schools. These are students deemed to have either damaged school property or failed to return school property in their care. It was disclosed …
Read More »Review ban on corporal punishment in schools – GES advised
Rev. Renault Amofa Danquah of Asante Akyem Agogo Methodist Circuit has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to consider the ban it has placed on caning in school. Speaking to Adom News, Rev Danquah called on GES to review its “no-cane in school” policy as he said it will …
Read More »South Africans sign petition to oppose gender-neutral toilets in basic schools
A pan by South Africa’s department of basic education to introduce unisex or gender-neutral toilets in schools has been opposed. A group of concerned citizens launched an online petition against the plan some citing its needlessness whiles others insist that doing so will bring about social ills. The petition, as …
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