Three Students Fatally Stabbed
Three people were fatally stabbed on Friday following clashes between students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Ghana, Legon, at the Cape Coast...
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Free SHS Must Target the Poor Alone
The Head of Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, has waded into the ongoing debate about the free Senior High School policy, saying it should be targeted at the...
Decriminalize Attempted Suicide
Members of Parliament (MPs) have called for the decriminalization of the offence of attempted suicide because it does not help to punish somebody who decides to end his own life. The MPs argue that...
Reverting To ‘O’ & ‘A’ Level System Not Advisable
The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has said it will not be advisable for government to reintroduce the ‘O’ and ‘A’ level system of education, as suggested by the Ghana...
3 Injured In ATL, Vandals and Conti Clash At UCC [Photos]
There was uneasy calm at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on Friday night , following violent clashes between some student groups. At least 3 people were left seriously injured in the clashes...
SHSs Heads To Face Sanctions For Preventing Students From Writing WASSCE – GES
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is illegal for any head of a second cycle school to prevent any final-year student from writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination...
Reverting To ‘O’ & ‘A’ Level System Not Advisable- Franklin Cudjoe
The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has said it will not be advisable for government to reintroduce the ‘O’ and ‘A’ level system of education, as suggested by the Ghana...
Politics Responsible For Suspension Of Ghana School Feeding Programme
A survey carried out by the members of Parliament has shown that the decision by the Ejura Sekyeredumase Assembly to suspend the school feeding programme is frustrating the basic education system of...
3 Students Stabbed Following Vandals, Conti, ATL Clashes At UCC
One of the victims of the clash At least three students were stabbed Friday at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) following a clash between some students of the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah...
Chibok Schoolgirl Pleads
A Chibok schoolgirl who escaped from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has called on the international community not to forget those still in captivity. Next month will mark the third anniversary of...
Twins Run Shift In One School Uniform
They were born on the same day and shared a school uniform for a year but they are not Siamese twins, just twins who have had a lot of pain and deprivation thrown at them because theirs is a broken...
NPP-NDC Clash Denies 14,000 Pupils School Feeding Meals
The Member of Parliament for the Ejura-Sekyedumase constituency in the Ashanti region, Muhammed Bawah Braimah, has bemoaned the politicization of the national school feeding program. According to...
Soldier Assaults Benkum SHS Teacher For ‘slapping’ His Son
A soldier stormed the Benkum Senior High Secondary School at Larteh in the Eastern Region to assault a teacher who allegedly slapped his son, a student in the school. The soldier, Warrant Officer...
Don’t Forget Us, Says Chibok Schoolgirl As Third Year of Captivity Approaches
A Chibok schoolgirl who escaped from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has called on the international community not to forget those still in captivity. Next month will mark the third anniversary of...
Solider Assaults Benkum SHS Teacher For ‘slapping’ His Son
A soldier stormed the Benkum Senior High Secondary School at Larteh in the Eastern Region to assault a teacher who slapped his son, a student in the school. The soldier, Warrant Officer (W/O)...
Tertiary Institutions Must Be Solution Providers
Reverend Professor E. Kingsley Larbi, the Chancellor of the Regent University College of Science and Technology, Ghana, has urged tertiary educational institutions to come out with innovative ideas...
Men Who Impregnate Teenage Schoolgirls To Pay GHC250 Fine, Teachers GHC300
Any man who impregnates a teenage girl in any basic school at Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, will be fined GHC250 while male teachers will pay GHC300. In...
Falsyd Foundation School Wins Junior Graphic Spelling Competition
Falsyd Foundation School at New Achimota in Accra came up tops at the 2017 National Junior Graphic Fan Club Spelling Competition held at the GNAT Hall in Accra on Friday. Falsyd shrugged off a...
Police Hunt For ‘Xenophobic’ Banda Group
Police in the Brong Ahafo Region are searching for members of an unidentified group who have issued threats of attacks on residents of Banda Ahenkro. Wenchi District Police Commander, ASP...
Stakeholders To Decide On Return Date For Workers Who Fled Banda Over Threats
The Ghana Education Service will join the security services and the Banda traditional authorities on March 20, to decide on the appropriate time for teachers and other workers who fled the town due...