As part of its efforts to support and promote the UAE’s Year of Giving initiative, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced that it has expanded its activities under the national framework to its representative office in Ghana. The Chamber recently donated text books, story books, workbooks, and other...
The President of Yale University, Professor Peter Salovey, will attend a leadership forum at Accra on March 11, 2018. It is therefore appropriate to reflect on the contribution of one institution of that university, namely, Yale Law School, to leadership in Africa and indeed, to the international community. Yale Law...
The Institute of Distance Learning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has inaugurated its Takoradi City Campus at Kansaworodo, a suburb of Takoradi, to enable working class people, in particular, to upgrade themselves academically. The campus project was financed from the university’s Internally Generated Fund (IGF)...
Government is engaged in necessary stakeholder consultations to equip universities to tackle expected increase in the number of tertiary students in the next three years, as a result of its flagship Free Senior High School Programme, Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh has assured. “We are committed to ensuring that all...
The current funding regime of government's flagship program, the free Senior High School (SHS) programme from the consolidated fund must shift to taxation as a special purpose vehicle for the long-term sustenance of the policy, Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin has suggested. According to the legislator, a great...
Dwindling financial support from government over the years, to cover some major expenses of the University of Ghana, has compelled the institution to strategise towards raising additional funds, hence dedicating the School’s 70th Anniversary celebration as a fund-raising effort. Speaking at the launch of the anniversary, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu,...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) under the second phase of the Ghana Institutional Support Programme (GISP) organized a 10-day training workshop on business planning for new product development for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Koforidua. This is in line with the current government’s industrial transformation...
The British Council Accra, will tonight host the final of the Duapa Challenge dubbed: 'The Campus Duel'. The Duapa Challenge, as part of the British Council's contributions to the social enterprise ecosystem, is a social innovation competition which seeks to promote economic growth, private sector development and youth employment through...
The Israeli Embassy has held an education fair to expose Ghanaian students to the opportunities available for university education in Israel. Seven Israeli universities who participated in the fair, which was held at the British Council in Ghana’s capital, Accra, explained the various courses available in their respective schools, the...
2017 Digital Bank of the Year award winner, Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited, has further deepened its partnership with the nation’s premier university, University of Ghana (UG) in the area of payments of fees and charges to the University; as the bank has extended its online collection platform to...