By Kizito CUDJOE The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) is set to receive a US$2million boost from the Ghana Chamber of Mines Tertiary Education Fund, as part of the Chamber's ongoing commitment to enhancing mining education in Ghana. The announcement was made by Edem Akafia, Ghana Chamber of Mines president,...
Bolgatanga Girls' Senior High School (BOGISS) was the only girls’ school in the Upper East Region for a very long time. Call her the Lily of the North. She (BOGISS) has been responsible for providing access to education for many girls from all over the country: from Kumasi to...
ASA Savings and Loans Limited has presented various educational tools and materials to support the teachers and pupils of Apitisu Presbyterian Basic School at Amansie Central District of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region as part of its educational support programme. The ASA’s educational support programme forms part of its corporate social...
Education Lead at the Mastercard Foundation, Kimberly Kerr, has described as good news the current wave of curricula reforms which are being implemented, particularly at the secondary school level. Citing a recently released report by the Foundation, ‘Secondary Education in Africa: The future of work’, she stated that these reforms...
The new Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. (Mrs.) Rita A. Dickson has committed to pursuing substantial entrepreneurship content, as part of her vision to deepen KNUST’s contribution towards helping to tackle graduate unemployment, in the country. This includes the setting up of Career...
The Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) is calling on government to pay all members of TEWU ‘Critical Support’ which is being extended to some members of the Ghana Education Service (GES), while excluding others. Addressing the media yesterday at the TUC headquarters in Accra, General Secretary of TEWU, Augustine...
In line with Ashesi University's mission to educate ethical entrepreneurial leaders in Africa, its Entrepreneurship Centre through the Ashesi Venture Incubator (AVI) X Grant Programme has awarded alumni business ventures grants amounting to US$65,000. Having been active under the AVI since 2020, the grant has supported many Ashesi alumni business...
What is the anatomy of a great school? Does it have to do with its size, population, facilities, the quality of its teachers, the intelligence of its students or the contributions of its alumni to society? Or is it a combination of these factors, or something else entirely? I...
The US dollar has now entered the early stages of what looks to be a sharp descent. The dollar’s real effective exchange rate (REER) fell 4.3% in the four months ending in August. The decline has been even steeper as measured by other indexes, but the REER is what...
The CEO of American International School (AIS), Mrs. Adelaide A. Siaw-Agyepong, has observed that Africa needs people who are sustainable development-oriented to transform the continent. According to her, the changing world needs people who are analytical in view and poised in thoughts to make an impact on this world. Speaking on...