The winners of the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition, Prempeh College paid a courtesy call to the senior management team and staff of AirtelTigo, sponsor of the “Highest Scorer Award” in the annual the competition.
The purpose of the visit was to provide an opportunity to the...
The promotion of good corporate governance practices have come to the fore very strongly over the past two decades. From the Enron scandal to Big Four auditing firms being fined heavily in South Africa, the need for improved corporate governance practices in Africa and beyond, has never been more...
With research showing that countries that involve the private sector and civil society in education and human resource development programmes are doing better in addressing graduate unemployment, Ghana and Ethiopia have been identified as rarely engaging the private sector in this regard.
This was revealed in a report by the...
A senior medical doctor at the Police Hospital, Dr Samuel Botchway, has called on health sector policymakers and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), to reconsider the development and implementation of family planning education and sensitisation programmes targeted at teenagers.
According to him, there is an increasing trend of teenage pregnancy cases among...
One hundred and fifty Ghanaian youth across the country have benefitted from the Accelerated Oil and Gas (AOGC) Programme at the Jubilee Technical Training Center to fill the skills gap in the country’s oil and gas industry.
This cohort is made up of 127 males and 23 females. They were...
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating within the education sector have called for an urgent address to a seeming conflict between the Ministry of Education (GES) and the Ghana Education Services (GES) in recent times as it is hurting pre-tertiary education.
According to the CSOs, available information gathered from recent happenings...
The U.S. Department of State and the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), an international, non-profit organisation that specialises in global education and development, have offered admissions to the 2022 cohort of the ‘Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders’ in the United States.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is funded...
Izwe Savings & Loans invites Senior High School (SHS) graduates who have excellent grades and are truly financially needy to apply for the Izwe Scholarship Fund to pursue undergraduate or equivalent tertiary programs of their choice for the 2022/2023 academic year.
The Chief Executive Officer, Raymond Kwakye Bismarck, stated that,...
The Universal Merchant Bank Ghana (UMB) has donated 30 top-of-the-range computers to the Suhyen ICT Centre at a brief but colourful ceremony here in Accra. The bank made the presentation as part of its customer initiatives to celebrate UMB’s 50th anniversary.
The bank, founded in 1972 as a policy bank...
The government’s affirmative action policy that has reduced the cut-off point for girls who want to pursue various courses in the sciences at the senior High School (SHS) level is beginning to yield fruitful results as more girls in the past few years have gained admissions in category ‘A’...