NGO Donates Books To GES
NON-Governmental Organisation (NGO) ‘We Care for Our Children Foundation’ has donated text books worth several millions of cedis to the Ga-West Municipal Educational Directorate of the Ghana...
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Adisadel College To Cut Down Admissions By 50% If…
Parents aiming to secure admission for their wards at Adisadel College in the Central Region this year may be disappointed following the school’s decision to cut down on admissions by half....
The Vetting of Dr. Archibald Letsa: Partitioning of the Volta Region & Other Matters
Latest: The vetting of Dr. Archibald Letsa: Partitioning of the Volta Region & other matters We Blend Our Vision With Truth & Enlightenment We have now had the chance to watch and listen to the...
Fear Grips Parents As Another School Building Collapses At Nwomaso
Parents at Breman Nwomaso in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) District of the Central Region are living in fear over the collapse of the only Kindergarten (KG) and Primary school block in the area....
Police, Judiciary Still Most Corrupt Institutions In Ghana
A survey conducted by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has named the Ghana Police Service and the judiciary as among the most corrupt institution in Ghana. Both Services were given the same...
Government To Pay All Allowances, Arrears of Teachers
The government will this year pay all the outstanding allowances and salary arrears of teachers, including the 74, 885 staff of Ghana Education Service (GES). Additionally, the payment of promotion...
Unpaid Teachers Threaten To Boycott Classes
A group of teachers known as the Coalition of Newly Recruited Graduate Teachers of Ghana have threatened to boycott classes over the non-payment of their salaries. The group, which comprises Science,...
I Will Put Teachers First
Teachers will be the fulcrum around which the education system in Ghana will revolve henceforth, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. In his address on the occasion of the presentation of awards to...
Akufo-Addo Tells Life Story About School Fees
President Akufo-Addo yesterday gave a chilling account of what he went through to become what he is today, including borrowing to pay for school fees. He talked of the ordeal his late father and...
Teachers Will Be Pivotal In Our Development Agenda
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday reassured teachers that his government would ensure the profession regained its pride of place in the social and economic development agenda of Ghana....
60 Students Receive Presidential Awards
Sixty selected students from across the ten regions in the country have been awarded by the president for displaying academic excellence in the 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)....
Upper East, Volta Record Highest Teenage Pregnancies In 2016
The Upper East Region recorded a total of 5,587 adolescent pregnancies representing 15.4% for the year 2016, with 2.1%occurring among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years, making the...
KNUST SHS Wins 60th Anniversary Debate Competition
As part of activities to mark the Ghana @60 celebrations, the Ghana Education Service has organized its 20th inter-Senior High School debate competition on the theme ‘Mobilisation for Ghana’s...
Stop Beating Students With Canes
The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Rev. Jonathan Bettey has instructed teachers especially those in public schools to desist from beating pupils and students with...
Prof. Ekumfi Wages War On Pornographic Materials
A FORMER Minister of Education, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi, has challenged stakeholders in the educational sector to come out with innovative ways to stop students from using the internet...
Galaxy Int. School Holds 12th Inter-Cultural Festival; Calls For Peaceful World
One of Ghana’s prestigious schools, Galaxy International School, on Saturday thrilled over a thousand people drawn from diverse countries with a fun-filled event meant to display the multifaceted...
NGO Trains Teens On Menstrual Hygiene
Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation (TLGF), a non-governmental organization, has organized a day’s workshop on menstrual hygiene for 650 pupils from selected schools within the Accra Metropolis....
Teachers Account For 5.9 Per Cent Teenage Pregnancies
Mrs Thywill Eyra Kpe, Central Regional Director of the Department of Gender, has expressed worry and described as threatening the trend that suggest that teachers were among the top groups of people...
We Are Not Aware Teachers Are Impregnating School Girls
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is unaware teachers are impregnating their pupils as reported by a section of the media stating most cases turn out to be untrue. Public Relations Officer...
Returning Schools To Missions Not Solution
Alhaji Mohammed Haroun, Northern Regional Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), has shot down proposals to return Mission/Unit schools to the Mission/Units, saying that was not the solution. He...