Tullow Ghana has constructed a 12-unit classroom block for Bonzo-Kaku Senior High School in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region to support government's Free Senior High School (SHS) Policy in the country. The 500-capacity storey classroom block - with facilities such as water system, electrical fixture and fittings, study...
To celebrate academic excellence The University of Cape Coast School of Business (UCCSchool of Business) held its annual Dean’s award ceremony which celebrates students who obtained a CGPA of 3.6 and above at levels 200 to 400. The awards showed a 61% increase in the number of students on the...
Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has said prioritising education and empowering Muslim communities economically, with functional skills, is critical to alleviating them from extreme poverty and underdevelopment in the country. To this end, while government continues to pursue measures to resolve economic challenges arising at the back of the current...
In sub-Saharan Africa, it’s no surprise that the demand for tertiary education continues to grow as countries in this region realise they must prepare their young workforce to exhibit skills that can catalyse economic growth as a means of remaining competitive in today’s globalised world. While this growth in demand...
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), and running mate of John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 General Elections, has urged university students in the country to be cautious of what they do with their lives and time on campus...
Human Capital Africa (HCA), an accountability and advocacy organisation that uses evidence to mobilise governments to take actions that improve foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes, has officially launched a platform to measure and access the learning performance of children to address the gaps in Sub-Sahara Africa’s (SSA) educational systems. The...
…as disabled volunteer teacher seeks help. The Naro English and Arabic Junior High School (JHS) in the Nadowli/Kaleo District of the Upper West Region is still being managed by volunteer teachers as the Ghana Education Service (GES) is yet to post teachers to the school. The school, which started as a...
The Ghana National Education Coalition Campaign (GNECC), an education sector civil society organisation (CSO), has called on government to increase budgetary allocation for the implementation of inclusive education policy (IEP). According to the coalition of CSOs, it is one of the only pro-poor educational policy interventions that every Ghanaian is...
Lecturers and tutors who benefitted from the ‘Skills4Success’ workshop are optimistic the programme will help them enhance teaching and impact their students with the necessary digital skills. The 'Skills4Success' programme, which started in November last year, was developed by the British Council in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation and the...
Oxford University’s African Studies Centre has officially announced its cooperation with Ghana Gold Expo Foundation to organise the first Strategic Mining Workshop on CSR and Community Engagement, Impact in December 2022 at Takoradi. Professor Miles Larmer, Director of the African Studies Centre, explained that the vision for the workshop, which...