The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the various schools across the country have already been fumigated and disinfected various quantities of PPE have been provisioned to cater for the students, teachers and non-teaching staff, as they reopen tomorrow. In all about 750,000 persons, comprising 532,000 JHS 3 students,...
The Africa Education Watch has led a delegation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including ActionAid, World Vision, the SDG 4 Platform and the Ghana TVET Coalition to present the Civil Society Education Manifesto 2020 to the Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay. The Manifesto is the outcome...
The International Day of Education (January 24) is a good time to reflect on education’s essential role in achieving a peaceful and prosperous world. The severe impact that the COVID-19 pandemic, the global food and fuel crises, and climate change have had on the learning experience of millions of...
Chancellor of the All Nations University and Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, has urged the university not to rest on the glory of the successful satellite launch. He challenged engineering students of the university to exploit this pioneering feat to make Ghana the space...
The College of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), has directed its members to stay away from work on Thursday, November 2, if outstanding salary arrears due them are not settled by the government by November 1. It said the salary has been outstanding since October 2016, compelling them to...
By: Dorothy Klutse The transformative power of technology lies at the heart of the second Coding Caravan 2024, held on 19th June at Ghanata Senior High School in Dodowa, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Organized by the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) and the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT), the...
The Jilma D/A Primary School in the Chereponi district of the North East Region is in dire need of infrastructure to resume operations, eight years after the existing structure’s roof was ripped off by the rains. According to residents, roofing sheets on the only school in the Jilma community were...
The Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), has made a clarion call for the nation to prioritise investment in people and education to be able to harness quality human capital for national development. Executive Director, Peter Partey-Anti (Ph.D.), stated in the IFEST message on International Education Day (IED) that the institute...
My love for idioms (aka idiomatic expressions) was birthed in class 7 back in Ridge Church School; my English teacher was Mrs. Abbam (she is still alive and well at 96). She could make a Frenchman fall in love with the English language – and that’s saying a lot!!...
Celebrated broadcaster Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi a.k.a. Bola Ray has promised to buy some 100 tickets for students of the Accra Academy school in Accra. Bola made the announcement on Saturday during a well-attended Student Representative Council (SRC) event, where he mentored over 300 Senior High School students from Academy and some...