The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in partnership with the Centre for Asian Studies (CAS), has set up the JICA Chair for Japanese Studies at University of Ghana’s College of Humanities. The JICA Chair encompasses a comprehensive programme on Japanese studies covering among other things, short intensive lectures involving the...
Girls at Ofoase Kokoben Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region have been encouraged to take up courses in male-dominated fields, such as mining to contribute to the development of the country. As part of activities marking International Women’s Day (IWD), female workers of mining and drilling services company...
Many countries in Asia were concerned about likely actualisation of the relationship between immediate school re-openings and possibility of second wave of COVID-19 in the region. To avoid setbacks, Mr. Hossein Salar Amoli, Iran’s Acting Minister for International Scientific Co-operation, suggested the need for school closures to be extended;...
The Chairperson of the National Media Commission (NMC), Yaw Boadu Ayeboafoh, has bemoaned the rate at which the youth and children are losing their mother tongues. According to him, currently, it is rare to find a child that can explicitly express themselves in their local dialect without adding a foreign...
but female enrolment increases to 54% The University for Professional Studies (UDS) turned down about 11,419 qualified applicants seeking admission to the institution in the 2023/24 academic year, due to lack of teaching and learning infrastructure. According to the management of UDS, only 10,431 students were admitted out of 21,850...
About 286 people have graduated with dual certificates in professional digital marketing communication from the Institute for Digital Marketing and Communication (IDMC) Ghana. They graduated with a professional certificate in ‘Digital Marketing and Advanced Communication’ as well as an extra certificate in elective programmes, as the first cohort. Director of Training...
Many countries in Asia were concerned about likely actualisation of the relationship between immediate school re-openings and possibility of second wave of COVID-19 in the region. To avoid setbacks, Mr. Hossein Salar Amoli, Iran’s Acting Minister for International Scientific Co-operation, suggested the need for school closures to be extended;...
In January 2023 when the Ghana Government started its domestic debt exchange programme as a condition to receive a US$3billion financial bail-out from the IMF, many stakeholders demanded that the government cut public expenditure. Not surprisingly, some Ghanaians against the free Senior Secondary School (SHS) policy are putting pressure...
A Japan funded project between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) have launched. The project “Protecting vulnerable children from exacerbated food insecurity crisis through Japan’s expertise on school lunch: Intervention in Ghana” seeks to protect vulnerable children from situations of...
The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation Supply Chain, Africa at KNUST is moving to adopt workable policies and researched-based approaches to bridge the current gap between industry and academia. To achieve this, the centre has submitted a request to the university authority to replace the current thesis as a...