Ecobank Group, the leading Pan-African banking Group committed to developing and supporting Fintechs to transform digital finance and banking, today announced a partnership with AMA Academy, which is the only free-to-use pan-African online learning platform dedicated to up-skilling journalists in Africa. Ecobank Group and AMA Academy will work together to...
The government’s affirmative action policy that has reduced the cut-off point for girls who want to pursue various courses in the sciences at the senior High School (SHS) level is beginning to yield fruitful results as more girls in the past few years have gained admissions in category ‘A’...
Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the NDC 2020 Vice-Presidential running mate of former President John Dramani Mahama, has returned to the country after successfully attending and participating in the board meeting of the Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE) in Nairobi, Kenya. In her capacity as the immediate past President of...
… set to host leadership seminars and boarding school fair A delegation of a dozen principals and senior leaders will be returning to Accra in October to meet with parents, students, government ministers and business leaders at a UK Boarding School Exhibition - to discuss the opportunities offered by a British boarding...
    The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program has supported nearly 40,000 young people and by 2030 will double its reach to 100,000 young people, primarily in Africa. The Mastercard Foundation celebrates the decennial anniversary of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. Launched in 2012, the Program began as a $500 million...
…stakeholders call for capacity-building initiatives In spite of the progress that Ghana has made in improving access to school, several children do not have the required literacy and numeracy skills due to teaching-learning inefficiencies. A large number of pupils struggle to meet the proficiency cut-off point for English and Mathematics...
The Head of Programmes and Campaigns, Oxfam Ghana, Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam, has iterated the need for the government, through the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Ghana Education Service (GES), to formalise some of the result-driven transformative initiatives developed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development partners into policy to sustain...
Challenging Heights has called on government to release all outstanding arrears of the Capitation grant to public basic schools ahead of their re-opening this September. This will mitigate the frustrations currently being faced by heads of those basic schools, said a statement signed by Challenging Heights president, James Kofi...
The College of Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has lauded investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by Tullow Ghana. Speaking at an engagement with beneficiaries of Tullow's immense support, the college Provost in a speech read for him by Prof. George Yaw...
The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has indicated that it has received reports of heads and management of some schools locking its inspectors and monitors behind school gates to allow candidates to cheat in the exams. The council is, therefore, urging all heads of schools engaging in such activities, among...