Prior to the ban on canning in basic and senior high schools, teachers used to punish students for a wide range of infractions, some serious, some extraordinarily minor. Some of these students’ misconducts are: making noise in class, truancy or absenteeism, bullying, fighting, stealing, disobedience or rudeness, and leaving...
The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), an education policy research and advocacy organisation, has described the practice of governments spending their countries’ limited resources without ensuring efficiency as the major problem affecting the education sector - citing the recent GH¢34.6million spent by the Ministry of Education on past questions (Pasco)...
Sophia Kafui Teye, a seasoned writer and author, is set to launch two books on parenting and infertility - a clear shift from her regular focus on financial literacy, investment, and financial security through savings.
The two books, titled ‘Overcoming Infertility and ‘Contemporary Parenting’, are targeted at addressing challenges couples...
The Minster of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has stated that the issue of teacher deficit in deprived areas remains a national challenge, and as such the ministry and Ghana Education Service (GES) are putting in place measures to facilitate postings to such areas.
According to him, data available to...
Once upon a time we had an interaction with then Information Minister Mustapha Hameed in the boardroom of the Ministry of Information to discuss the anniversary celebrations of our book club in August 2017.
He spoke about the significance of reading in the life of an individual and how enthusiastic...
At the back of the perennial flooding incidents experienced in the country, Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to use experts in the ‘built environment’ in planning local development.
According to the Principal Architect and Co-founder of Spectra Global, William Evans Halm, a lot of the environmental...
The Ghana Mineworkers Union, GMWU of TUC-Ghana, as part of its contribution to the development of human resources and health and safety, presented health items and educational scholarship worth more than fifty thousand Ghana cedis to four institutions in mining communities.
The beneficiary institutions are OLA Girls Senior High School...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines, through its governing board, has launched a SMART Board Technology to aid virtual teaching and learning at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) at Tarkwa in the Western Region.
The equipment, worth GH¢173,872 catered for the procurement and installation of hardware and software components...
Stanbic Bank has partnered Inspire Today, a non-governmental organization focused on supporting teenage girls in public schools, to provide sanitary pads to 1,000 teenage girls in the Gbawe Cluster of Schools in Accra.
The specific beneficiary schools include Gbawe Methodist Basic School 1, Gbawe Methodist Basic School 2, Gbawe Methodist...
Ultimate Ministerial Academy (UMA) an institution set up as a training center for the Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, with a unique emphasis on the five-fold “giftings” of Jesus Christ.
The Academy seeks to bridge the gap between academia and the gospel, preparing a well-structured curriculum and assembling highly qualified and...
