123 Community Day Schools Missing
It is becoming evident that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is struggling to locate most of the 123 community day Senior High Schools (SHS) that it claims to have built. With the...
Tag: Ministry of Education
USAID Redoubles Efforts To Strengthen Ghanaian Institutions In the North
The Ghana Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrew Karas, traveled to northern Ghana to visit projects that work to advance USAID’s goals to...
Graduate Students Hit Streets Wednesday
Members of the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) will embark on a demonstration in Accra on Wednesday, September 28, a press release has announced. The demonstration is to protest...
The Need For Comprehensive Sexuality Education In Schools With Emphasis On Ghana
It’s 7am in the morning, rush hour time. I sat behind two young beautiful ladies in a trotro. As I look through the windows, admiring the beauty of life that exist in my country. These two ladies...
The Youth Can Play A Decisive Role In Promoting Change – Ablakwa
The deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says the youth in Ghana have the potential of playing a decisive role in promoting change. He said this last Tuesday at the launch of the...
Over 16,000 New Teachers To Teach Without Proper Licences
A total of 16,432 newly recruited trained teachers are to begin teaching on October 3 without the proper licences which will qualify them to teach. The National Inspectorate Board of the Ministry of...
New Teacher Licensing Starts From 2016/17 Academic Year
Begining from the 2016/17 academic year, all newly recruited teachers will have to be licensed before they will be allowed to teach. Those who are already in the teaching service who are professional...
You Will Be Better Off Under Akufo-Addo
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) Vice Presidential Candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has asked newly trained teachers to reject what he described as the “propaganda postings by government” which he...
Bawumia Slams ‘419’ Teacher Postings
Plans by government to post newly-trained teachers without appointment letters has been described by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as...
G-PASS Scholarship Versus School Enrollment
Mandate of the Girls’ Education Unit The Girls’ Education Unit (GEU) of Ghana Education Service (GES) addresses issues relating to access, participation and achievements of girls and young...
Oil Cash Projects Missing
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has discovered that oil revenue allocated to three projects in Upper West and Northern regions might have gone into private pockets as a visit...
Still On SMC, NAB and the Standard of Tertiary Institutions In Ghana
Still on SMC, NAB and the standard of tertiary institutions in Ghana By Dr. Prosper Yao Tsikata And Dr. A. Kobla Dotse We wish to commend the Executive Secretary of the Ghana National Accreditation...
16, 432 New Teachers Posted
All 16, 432 newly-trained teachers from both public and private colleges of education are ready for posting, according to the Ministry of Education. A statement released on Friday, stated that “we...
Nursing Students Mob Veep Over Withdrawn Allowances
Drama greeted the entry of Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur to the campus of the Bolgatanga Nurses’ Training College Thursday over the nationwide withdrawal of trainee nurses' allowances by...
Prof Amartey Appointment To the Position of Vice-Chancellor of UPSA
By Tsikata & Dotse The appointment of (Professor) Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey to the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), is perhaps the most...
On The Appointment Of (Professor) Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey To The Position Of Vice-Chancellor Of UPSA, Ghana
The appointment of (Professor) Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey to the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), is perhaps the most outrageous bastardization of...
I Will Complete Remaining 200 SHSs In My 2nd Term
President John Mahama has promised to complete all the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools he promised, if Ghanaians give him four more years in the December polls. The President in the run up to...
Teacher Training In Ghana … The Contribution of Private Partners
While the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (6th edition) defines a teacher as a person whose job is teaching, especially in a school, it describes teacher training as the process of teaching or...
Open Letter To Honourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
Kwasi Frimpong P. O. Box 582 Akyem Oda Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa Ministry Of Education Accra Dear Sir, THANK YOU FOR THE POSTINGS BUT WHAT ABOUT ‘US’? I write to say a very big thank you to...
Stop WASSCE Failures
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has entreated its members to be more proactive and double their efforts to reverse the high rate of failures in the West African Senior Secondary...