Ghanaian Youth Leader and Physician, Mr. Patrick Fynn, has been selected as fellow of the 2020 Yunus&Youth fellowship.
Founded with the support of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, Yunus & Youth (Y&Y), combines social entrepreneurship training with technology to remove educational barriers between countries and generations.
Since 2014, Y&Y...
Scripps National Spelling Bee, USA has had to cancel the 93rd edition of the programme due to the ongoing concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus and uncertainty around when public gatherings will be possible or advisable.
On March 20 this year, the 2020 edition of the programme, which...
It is undeniable – the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world on its head, and employment contracts have not been spared. Employers are in a quandary over how to deal with employees as social distancing and lockdowns appear to be the only guaranteed means of containing the spread of...
With schools closed, learning continues through mass communication and internet-based resources. GettyImages
Almost universally, one of the first measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This has affected over 1.576 billion learners, constituting slightly over 91% of enrolment.
In Africa, about 297...
The Conference of Heads of Private Second-Circle Schools (CHOPSS), an association of private senior high schools in Ghana, has called on government to include them in the distribution of the COVID-19 soft loan or stimulus package.
President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, about a fortnight ago announced...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has employed the services of waste management expert, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, to fumigate and disinfect all Senior High Schools (SHS) nationwide.
According to GES, the fumigation exercise is aimed at eradicating pests and insects such as bedbugs which have been tormenting student, especially those in...
Rector of BlueCrest University College in Accra, Dr. Anand Agrawal has said the phenomenon of online learning has been long in coming and though the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) is unfortunate, considering the many lives it has claimed in many countries, it has also compelled many educational...
In the late 2019, news broke of an outbreak of a deadly virus called the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in China. The virus has since spread very fast around the world, currently affecting about 199 countries, including 47 in Africa.
As the spread of the COVID-19 continues across the world, many questions...
The government of Ghana is making frantic effort to reposition the country as regional center of academic excellence, technological innovation and human capital development, Dr. Baffour Adjei Bawuah, Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, has said.
Consequently, the necessary infrastructures and policies are being put in place towards...
Thousands of pregnant girls will attend school in Tanzania as part of a $500-million World Bank loan which had been delayed for years due to the country’s ban on expectant students.
Tanzania’s education minister Joyce Ndalichako said the loan aimed to improve access to and the quality of secondary education...