Percy Sackey is a teacher at the Obo Presby School in the Kwahu Hills. He uses music and dance to teach and motivate his pupils at the school. Joy News’ Justice Baidoo visited the school to learn more about the teacher’s unconventional methods of teaching. He says encouraging his students …
Read More »Burundi schoolgirl dies ‘after caning’
A 14-year-old schoolgirl in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura, has died after being brutally caned by a teacher, her father has told the BBC. Chadia Nishimwe was caned on the neck and legs, and the beating also caused her to bleed from the nose and ears, Jean-Marie Misago said. “She just died …
Read More »Teacher found hanging dead on a tree
Kwesikum, a village near Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District in the Central Region was thrown into shock Tuesday when a 55- year- old teacher at the A.E.D.A Basic School was found hanging dead on his farm in an apparent suicide. The deceased, Mr Isaac Kofi Yeboah was found …
Read More »Teachers ill-prepared for rushed new curriculum – Educationist
A quality education specialist with the SOS Villages Ghana has indicated that the new curriculum for basic and high schools is being rushed. Beginning the 2019 – 2020 academic years, Ghana will be moving towards a standardized practical based curriculum with national assessment examinations to be written in classes two, …
Read More »UPDATES: Pupil Teacher defiles minor
A video of a supposed Teacher in Komenda in the central region of Ghana penetrating minor in the corner of a bathhouse of an uncompleted building has hit online and fast going viral. According to the man who finally caught the teacher in the middle of the act, he has …
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