As has always been the case in the education sector over the years, the bulk of 2018’s budget allocation will go into paying salaries - leaving little for infrastructural development.
Although the education sector budget increased by 11 percent from GH¢8.33billion in 2017 to GH¢9.26billion in 2018, much of the...
Mr. Emmanuel Ofosu, a graduate of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), received The Mike Nyinaku Excellence Award for 2017. He was the Best Graduating student from the Business School for the year 2017. The presentation of the award was done by The BEIGE Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility...
Demand for tertiary education is expected to explode by the year 2020, from the first batch of Free Senior High School beneficiaries, and the government has said its waiver of corporate income tax on private universities is meant to enable them invest in infrastructure and admit more students.
Speaking at...
Patrick Awuah left Ghana in 1985 with just US$50 in his pocket and a full scholarship to Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania, the United States.
When he came back a decade and a half later, quitting a lucrative job with Microsoft, with ideas to set up a world class educational institution...
capitation grant up to GH¢10
No BECE registration fee
Income tax waived for private varsities
In a bid to attract investors into the country’s education sector and position it as a hub in the sub-region, Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that government will give tax breaks...
The government’s agenda towards job creation, particularly addressing the soaring unemployment numbers among university graduates, will be boosted with the introduction of “Nation Builders Corp,” a new initiative that is expected to see the absorption of 100,000 university graduates, next year.
The graduates to be hired under the programme will...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has finally received clearance to employ over 22,000 personnel --both teaching and non-teaching staff-- after government put a ban on employment in the education sector in the last few years.
“The ministry has received clearance to replace, recruit, reappoint and re-instate 22,802 personnel of different...
By the year 2020, demand for tertiary school admissions is expected to be massive as the country awaits the maiden graduation of over 400,000 Free Senior High School (SHS) students who will be applying for entry into the various tertiary institutions.
The reality is that this single batch of free...
Victoria Naashika Quaye, a budding entrepreneur has been nominated as one of the panelist to speak at the high profiled Transcultural Leadership Summit on November 16-17,2017 at Zeppelin University.
The two-day conference is expected to bring together experienced executives as well as young leaders and students from diverse backgrounds.
Ms Quaye...
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...