University for Development Studies (UDS) has said it is ready to move part of its academic work online for some students to participate in to reduce congestion in classrooms. According to management, the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in the country is worrying and considering how congested lecture halls become...
Parliament has voted against a motion filed by lawmaker for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, requesting government to absorb fees of public tertiary students and to extend support to private universities for the 2020/2021 academic year, as part of COVID-19 relief programmes. During debate on the proposal, some members in the...
Despite the surge in COVID-19 cases in Ghana, government has assured that schools will remain open as it monitors the situation for appropriate response. Delivering a speech to update the nation on the fight against COVID-19, President Akufo-Addo said the decision to keep schools open is due to the low...
…urges gov’t to seek other sources Even though many institutions and student bodies have expressed support for a proposal requesting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to absorb the fees of tertiary students as part of the COVID-19 relief programme, the issue regarding source of funding for such has also...
The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has extended support to a brilliant but needy Physically Challenged person to further his studies at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). Iddrisu Abdul-Hanan, the student, who has a hearing-impaired condition but managed to gain admission to the university was hit by financial...
The Technical University Teachers of Ghana (TUTAG) is appealing to students and colleagues to observe the COVID-19 safety protocols religiously to curb the spread of the virus and to avoid the possibility of another lock down. "Though TUTAG is very much sympathetic with the situation that schools have reopen amidst the...
ONE critical aspect of the educational reforms with regards to the Senior High Schools, which hasn’t received due attention primarily because it is taken for granted by policy-makers, has been the unique role of Schools’ histories, identities, traditions and heritage – key points to mold the characters of the...
The Executive Director and the Inspector-General of Schools of the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA), formerly the National Inspectorate Board (NIB), Dr. Haggar Hilda Ampadu, has indicated that the authority has introduced policy measures that promote the extensive use of ICT as a mode of teaching and learning in...
One hundred and seventy-one law students have been inducted into the Ghana School of Law – Kumasi Campus, to commence academic studies towards attaining the status as learned practitioners while augmenting the current numbers of legal practitioners in the country upon completion. The Ag. Director of Legal Education, Mr. Maxwell...
The Northern Sector Action on Awareness Centre (NORSAAC), with funding from United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has supported 16 year-old Shamsiya (no last name to protect her identity) through delivery and have restored her back to school through its Child Protection Programme. Narrating her journey from pregnancy to childbirth and the...