Education

CHASS Appeals To Feuding Factions To Cease Fire For Effective Teaching And Learning
7th June, 2010
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and the Association of Principals of Technical Institutes (APTI) have appealed to the feuding factions in the North to ceasefire to ensure ...
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Education Policy Must Respond To Critical Areas Of Global World
7th June, 2010
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Mrs Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, has observed that the challenges of the global world today could only be confronted with a credible, ...
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MP Donates Computers, Accessories To 2 Senior High Schools
2nd June, 2010
The Member of Parliament for Pru, Alhaji Masoud Baba Abdul-Rahman, has donated 36 computers with accessories and a large quantity of assorted library books to the Yeji and Prang Senior High Schools in ...
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Ghana School Feeding Programme To Cover 1,040,000 Pupils
2nd June, 2010
THE Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), is to be expanded to cover 1,040,000 pupils by the end of the year. The programme currently covers 656,624 pupils. It was started in 2005 following ...
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Government Textbooks Diverted
1st June, 2010
About 29 per cent of English Language textbooks meant for distribution to public basic schools nationwide, do not get to the beneficiary schools. “Even though the books are recorded to have been ...
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Institute Of Chartered Accountant Ghana To Award Diploma Certificates Soon
29th May, 2010
The Vice President of the Institute of Chartered Accountant Ghana (ICAG), Joseph Odartey Blankson says the Institute would soon award Chartered Diploma Certificates to its members with specialization ...
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Govt Approves Payment Of Allowances For Professional Teachers
24th May, 2010
The Government has approved the payment of professional allowance to all certificated professional teachers in the Ghana Education Service. A statement issued in Accra on Thursday and signed by ...
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Ghana, China Sign M.O.U For Deployment Of ICT In Schools
24th May, 2010
The Ministry of Education and the China Communications Services Corporation Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work toward the deployment of Information and Communication ...
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Govt Will Not Discriminate In The Provision Of Educ. Infractructure
24th May, 2010
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, has said that the Government would not discriminate in the provision of education infrastructure. He said the Government would ensure that all ...
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Kulpeliga Basic School PTA Appeals For Teachers
24th May, 2010
The Parent- Teacher Association (PTA) and the School Management Committee (SMC) of the Kulpeliga Basic School in the Talensi-Nabdam District have appealed to the Ghana Education Service and the ...
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Amend The GETFund Act To Include Private Tertiary Institutions
24th May, 2010
The Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensah has appealed to the government to amend the GETFund Act that restricts it’s disbursement to public ...
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Huni Valley Assembly Rehabilitates School Block
23rd May, 2010
The Chief and people of Awudua were filled with joy when the old St. Peter’s Anglican Primary School block was rehabilitated at a cost of GH¢31,000 by the Prestea Humi Valley District Assembly. The ...
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AMA Takes Steps To End School Shift System
23rd May, 2010
THE Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), last Friday took a giant step in its efforts to end the shift school system by September this year with a sod cutting ceremony to commence construction work on a ...
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Ga East Municipal Assembly, La Nkwantanang Chiefs Resolve Impasse Amicably
22nd May, 2010
The Chiefs and people of La Nkwatanang and the Ga East Municipal Assembly have amicably resolved an impasse over the temporary occupation of part of the La Nkwantanang cluster of schools at Madina by ...
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Govt Exercise Books Are Free
19th May, 2010
Mr. Joseph Foster Andoh, district Chief Executive (DCE) for Twifo Heman Lower Denkyira, has warned that the free exercise books supplied by government to basic schools in the country are not meant for ...
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Don\'t Cane Children At School - Plan Ghana Suggests
17th May, 2010
The Northern Sector Manager of Plan Ghana, a child centred non-governmental organization, Mr Kofi Adade Debrah has called on the Ghana Education Service to find better alternative to child correction ...
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PRESEC Holds 72nd Speech And Prize Giving Day
16th May, 2010
Teachers have been urged to effectively teach using multi-media in this Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Distance Learning era. This is believed to help students bring up their best ...
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\'Corruption Free Schools\' Campaign Launched In Kumasi
15th May, 2010
A campaign, dubbed “Corruption-Free Schools,” aimed to educate pupils to eschew corrupt practices and to live upright lives when they become adults, has been launched in Kumasi. The project is ...
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Enrolment Into Public Health Training Institutions Reduced
13th May, 2010
THE Ministry of Health has reduced this year’s number of student enrolment into the Public Health Training Institutions in the country. In 2009/2010 academic year, 9,804 students were admitted by ...
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School Heads Schooled On H1N1 Influenza
13th May, 2010
TEACHERS, particularly those teaching in crèches and nurseries, have been urged to critically observe the children under their care and report any possible outbreak of the HINI influeza infection and ...
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