The Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has allocated GH₵50,000 to support some of the 6,000 students deferred by management for failure to meet their tuition fee obligation within the stipulated timeline. According to the President of the SRC, Michael Abuah, the...
The Founder of MountCrest University College (MountCrest), Mr. Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has appointed Mrs. Irene Ansa-Asare Horsham as the institution’s new Rector. Her appointment, according to a letter signed by the Founder, Mr. Ansa-Asare, is for an initial six-year period with effect from Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Aged 39 at the time...
Ashesi University has launched a research project with McGill University to understand the pathways from experiential education to the entrepreneurial actions of their students and graduates. The research, a Mastercard Foundation (MCF) Partner Research Fund (PRF) sponsored project, primarily focuses on MCF Scholarship beneficiaries and provides an opportunity to study...
… a conversation with Dr. Haggar Hilda Ampadu, the Executive Director and the Inspector-General of Schools at NaSIA The role of education, particularly at the pre-tertiary level, in building the human resources required for national development cannot be over-emphasised. In keeping with this, the National Inspectorate Board (NIB) was...
Corporate support for the government’s Free Senior High School Policy (Free SHS) has played a very significant role in meeting the infrastructure needs of some deprived schools. Notable among these interventions is the announcement by Tullow Oil Ghana in 2018, of US$10-million to improve senior high school infrastructure across the...
The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)’s Afrobarometer Round 8 survey has shown that television and radio platforms are better than online options for teaching and learning students across the country during the COVID-19 induced closedown of schools. Exposing the lack of access to devices, the Internet, and reliable electricity in...
- Funds AfCFTA handbooks for SHS students The Volta River Authority (VRA), in collaboration with the Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC), is promoting the inclusion of Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) models and concepts in the curriculum of Senior High Schools (SHS). In this regard, the leading generator...
Eduwatch calls for increase in Domestic Violence fund to Gh₵2M The Ghana Statistical Services (GSS), in the 2021 Population Census Report, has indicated that about 80,000 girls between 12 and 17 years are either married or living with a man, a factor that has been identified as an impediment...
JACCD Design Institute Africa, the first private creative university in West Africa and Ghana’s leading creative design university has opened its ultra-modern campus at North Legon in Accra to offer quality creative education to creative innovators. The new campus hosts air-conditioned lecture halls, syndicated rooms, faculty and administrative block, tech-enabled...
The default position on providing education largely rest on every government. It is one of the reasons why people are taxed so that the state can provide social services which include education and basic healthcare. In most advanced jurisdiction, education from primary to high school in public schools are...