Tag Archives: SHS

Free SHS is not under review – Ministry ‘corrects’ GES boss

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 …

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Government reviewing free SHS – GES Director-General

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 …

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Islamic SHS: Police peddled falsehood – Defence Committee

The Parliamentary select committee on Defence and Interior has accused the police of peddling lies in the clash with students at the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. The Committee was tasked by the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, to embark on a fact-finding mission following the disturbances which led to students …

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Two teachers of Asankrangwa SHS remanded for allegedly raping two female students

Augustine Swanzy Oduro, a history tutor and Ernest Donkor, a physics tutor at Asankrangwa Senior High School (ASANCO) in the Western region have been remanded for allegedly raping two first year students of the school, aged 16 and 15, respectively. The incident occurred on Thursday, July 14 during the Wasa …

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UPDATE: St Louis SHS student S*x tape leaks in Kumasi (VIDEO&PHOTOS)

When Ghanaians thought they have had enough of the St Louis Senior High School (SHS) graduate who was caught on tape in a ‘threesome’, more leaks are emerging from social media giving the real persona of the lady in question. Aisha as only known in the latest video sighted on …

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‘Free SHS should be needs-based’ – Tracy Sarkcess

Wife of Ghana’s most decorated rapper, Sarkodie, Tracy Owusu Addo popularly known as Tracy Sarkcess, has called for changes to the government’s flagship policy, the Free Senior High School Policy. According to her, the policy which seeks to provide free education to students in the second cycle should be rolled out on …

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“Free SHS is innovative; it needs to be protected” — IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said its support for Ghana will not scrap Free SHS. It noted that its program aims to protect the vulnerable. The Fund noted that the Free SHS policy needs to be protected describing it as innovative. In its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), cited by ModernGhana …

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Community Day SHS student dies in motor accident

A 17-year-old student of Apersua Community Day Senior High School near Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern region has died in a motorbike accident. The accident occurred on Thursday morning July 14, 2022. The deceased Amissah Bright, a first-year General Arts student was pronounced dead on arrival …

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SHS student stabbed to death at Koforidua

A first year General Arts student of Oyoko Methodist Senior High School in Koforidua has been stabbed death. Roland Asare ,18, was stabbed during a fight between his Uncle and a co- tenant, Kwaku Kyere alias old Soldier in a house at Ogua area near Koforidua Jackson park on Monday …

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Fatal accident kills two teachers of Zabzugu SHS

Two senior staff of the Zabzugu Senior High School have lost their lives in an accident while returning from a workshop. The two, which included the senior housemaster of the school, met their untimely death around Buipe in the Savannah Region when their vehicle got involved in an accident while …

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