A stronger focus on human capital investments of children from those households with a particular focus on skills for future jobs will be key. (Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank)
Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) target of halving extreme poverty by...
The President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has given GH¢80,000 as seed capital to the first eight students of the Nduom School of Business and Technology (NBS&T) to start and manage a new company to be formed by them.
Speaking during an interaction with the students...
Officials of Assin North Senior High School have been given two weeks by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to purge themselves of perjury or cough up over GH₵61,000.
According to the 2015 Auditor General's report, the school made payments of GH₵163,000 without receipts and invoices to verify the payments.
Officials...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is set to abrogate an ICT contract for Senior High Schools in the country more than two years after paying several millions of Ghana cedis to a service provider by name Eduvid Education Limited.
The deal signed on 13th November, 2015 was for the supply...
About 26 pharmacy students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and four professional workers will be embarking on the second edition of the Advance Pharmacy Initiative in Florida’s Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), USA, this year.
The exchange program which has been described as an ambitious...
The Ministry of Education has outlined plans to make Technical and Vocation Education and Training (TVET) effective and efficient, as part of measures to address the high unemployment rate in the country.
Over the past years, development of the TVET sector has been plagued with a number of factors: including...
A forum to highlight the importance of menstrual hygiene management among young girls has been held in Accra.
At the forum, which was organised by GHOne under the theme “Period Not Shame’, Nana Aba Anamoah, an astute broadcaster with the EIB Network said: “It is absolutely a shame that after...
Radford University College (RUC) has launched its annual Graduate Fashion Show at an impressive ceremony on the university campus in Accra.
The launch attracted a large number of passers-by, and was to showcase the creative abilities of some students in the Fashion Design Department of the university.
In a speech, the Executive...
The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) officially launched the 8th Terminal Congress at Cape Coast today.
The 2-day congress will see delegates from various Regions come together to elect executives to man the association for the next Service year.
The congress which was held under the theme, “Entrepreneurship and Capacity Building;...
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Western and Central regions are expected to have their financials probed from the 2015-2016 Auditor-General’s report later on Monday when the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) continues its regional sittings.
The public engagements in Takoradi, with support from USAID and GIZ will see the...