Education
31st October, 2011
An emerging problem observed recently in the present educational system is the exodus of teachers from the classrooms during class hours to undertake sandwich programmes all to the detriment of the ...
31st October, 2011
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed the placement of all successful Basic School candidates in Senior High schools and has asked all schools to begin admitting first year students from ...
20th October, 2011
Four hundred and two graduands who read different disciplines at the Pentecost University College (PUC), were on Saturday, presented with certificates at the third congregation held at Sowutuom, in ...
20th October, 2011
The Cape Coast Polytechnic has secured accreditation to commence a Bachelor of Technology Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering.
The programme, when it finally takes off, would complement the ...
19th October, 2011
ABOUT 400 students to be admitted into the Zion Secondary School at Anloga this academic year will have no classrooms to attend classes.
This is because provision has not been made for any ...
13th September, 2011
The conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) has asked for an upward review of feeding fees for this academic year which begins in the next two weeks, to reflect current cost of ...
8th September, 2011
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has formally admitted 4,437 students to pursue various programmes for the 2011/2012 academic year.
The number is 12.8 per cent less of last year’s admission of ...
8th September, 2011
Eleven public Junior High Schools in the Mfantseman municipality scored zero per cent in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination, as none of the pupils obtained aggregate 25, the cut-off ...
7th September, 2011
Pupils of Cedec International School in Lagos, Nigeria, yesterday paid a visit to the New Times Corporation (NTC), publishers of the Ghanaian Times and Weekly Spectator to acquaint themselves with ...
7th September, 2011
About 900 pupils from basic schools in Sherigu, Gowrie, Kunkua and Sumbrungu in the Upper East Region, have completed a six-week intensive training in the art of reading, at Sherigu near ...
6th September, 2011
The Girl-Child Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service has embarked on a programme in communities and schools in the Upper East Region, to curb the spate of girl dropouts in schools in the ...
6th September, 2011
The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), has presented 60 computers and other equipment to the Takoradi Polytechnic, for the training of petrochemical, fluid and ...
6th September, 2011
The Omanhen of Lower Dixcove in the Western Region, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX, has expressed worry about the falling standards of education in the area.
“Standards are low, teenage pregnancy is high, ...
5th September, 2011
The Wa West District Chief Executive, Mr. Seidu Tungbani, has entreated Muslim parents in the country not to deny their children access to Western education.
While admitting that Islamic education ...
5th September, 2011
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of this year’s May/June General and Advanced Business Certificate Examinations.
A release issued in Accra and ...
5th September, 2011
Nine Basic schools in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern Region scored zero per cent in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
All the pupils presented for the ...
1st September, 2011
The Ghana Education Service (GES) Council has recommended that religious bodies be allowed to establish, manage and maintain schools, to supplement government’s efforts in providing quality ...
30th August, 2011
The District Chief Executive of Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese in the Central Region, William Atta-Mends, had threatened to facilitate the transfer of headteachers of schools in the district which scored less ...
24th August, 2011
The Minister of Education, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu believed the passage of the Colleges of the Education bill will raise the social status of teachers and improve quality education in the ...
23rd August, 2011
The Deputy Minister of Education, responsible for Pre-Tertiary Education, Mrs Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, has counselled members of the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), to constantly upgrade ...