AASU Commemorates Soweto Youth Uprise
In 1953, the then Apartheid Government in South Africa introduced the Bantu Education Act which was designed to train Africans to be fit only in black community or for certain forms of labour...
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Teachers Advised Against Using Contract Hours For Personal Business
Teachers have been urged to desist from using contact hours to undertake personal businesses at the expense of teaching the pupils. Dr Nana Kwaku Asiedu, the Principal of Foso College of Education...
DCE Advises Parents Against Forced Marriages
Madam Mary Konney, the Banda District Chief Executive, said forced and early marriages impede girl-child education in the area with many dropping out before reaching primary six due to teenage...
Ngyeresia Fishermen Want Light Sea-Fishing Banned At Once
Nana Kwesi Ackon, the Chief Fisherman of Ngyeresia, a fishing community near Sekondi, has appealed to government to halt light sea fishing and pair trawling activities to enable fishing expeditions...
Minister Introduces Scholarship Packages Under the Zongo Development Fund
Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Sadique, the Minister for Inner-city and Zongo Development, says Muslim students would benefit from scholarship package under the Zongo Development Fund. He said the...
Pinako Basic School Benefits From MTN “Yellow Care”
The Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) donated assorted library books and other teaching and learning materials to the Reverend Pinako Junior High School to augment teaching and learning in the...
Vice Chancellor Urges Students To Develop Interest In Technical Education
Professor Kwadwo Adinkrah-Appiah, the Vice Chancellor of Sunyani Technical University (STU) advised students to show interest and pursue technical education. He said on completion technical education...
Headmistress Seeks Corporate Support For Bagabaga Demonstration ‘B’ Primary School
Madam Francisca Awuni, Headmistress of Bagabaga Demonstration ‘B’ Primary School in Tamale, said the school lacked reading materials, which affects teaching and learning. Madam Awuni who was...
Chinese Enterprises Donate Learning Materials To Kenyan Slum School
Dozens of Chinese firms on Thursday donated learning materials, sports kits and snacks worth 4,075 U. S. dollars to a school located in the Mathare slum in Kenya’s Nairobi. Eleven companies under...
MP Seeks Parliament Intervention On High Cost of Admission Forms
Mr Rockson-Nelson Etse Dafeamekpor, Member of Parliament for South Dayi has called on Parliament to act “to ensure that doors to public tertiary institutions were not closed to qualified Ghanaians...
Youth Empowerment Is the Key To Solving Unemployment
Unemployment in South Africa remains a major issue, currently sitting at 26.50 percent, while the country’s youth unemployment is currently at a staggering 50.9 percent. Despite this, many...
Bawumia Backs Call For Study of Civic Education In Schools
The Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has supported calls for the study of civic education to be reintroduced into the school curriculum. Speaking at a National Dialogue on restoring Ghanaian...
GETFund Bags GHC790m
The Parliament of Ghana has approved an amount of GH?790,224,149.00 to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Secretariat for distribution to some specific areas of the Education Sector. Out of...
Over 46,000 Students’ Future In Limbo As University of Education Shuts Down
The future of some 46,000 students including those doing distance learning is in limbo as all campuses of the University of Education shuts down due to a suit filed against the school at the Winneba...
Students of University of Education Begin Packing Out of Campuses
The University has directed its satellite campuses to close down until the hearing of the case Students of the University of Education have started packing out of their respective campuses following...
High Court Shuts Down University of Education
The University of Education has been shut down following an injunction from a Winneba High court. The injunction affects all four satellite campuses of the university in Kumasi, Mampong, Winneba and...
Minority Unhappy With Slash In GETFund
The Minority in Parliament has lamented government’s decision to reduce allocation to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) by 21 per cent. As such, the MPs claim government’s Free Senior High...
Court Forces Closure of University of Education Campuses
Authorities at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have closed down all of the school’s campuses following a court ruling that some actions taken by the school’s council was illegal....
Prof. Allotey Inducted As Fellow of Nigerian Mathematical Society
Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, a renowned Ghanaian Mathematician and Scientist has been inducted as Fellow of the Nigerian Mathematical Society (NMS). The award was in recognition of Prof....
Chinese University Makes Truants Clean Up After Opposite Sex
A university in central China is punishing students who skip class by making them clean the sleeping quarters of their opposite-sex peers, it’s reported. This is the choice that faces truant...