Kasapreko, a leading beverage manufacturer in Ghana, has put in place a 'Student Leadership Awards scheme’ to honour thriving students in the area of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering across various Technical Universities and the Regional Maritime University. The aim of this awards scheme is to strengthen industry and academic collaboration,...
Book review Title:                                                    Derailed: When Common Sense Eludes a Nation Author:                                               Solomon Mensah Publisher(s):                                       Wrenco Publications Year of Publication:                           2022                Number of Pages:                              196                  Reviewer:                                           Ralph Dinko (Writer & Assistant PRO, Ghana Maritime Authority) Like Putin, I possess a black belt to my name with regards to books, and this...
Not long ago, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), acting within the education sector, kicked against the government’s plans to implement a policy that will wean-off public tertiary institutions from its payroll, outlining the implications of such an action, and recommending alternative solutions. Barely a month after that call for the government...
Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, a Ghanaian educationist, writer, economist, and former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has launched the long-awaited book, 'The GIMPA Story', as well as two other books titled: 'Living by Strategy' and 'Managing Your Life.' The GIMPA Story, transforming a public...
The UG-SRC under the 2021-2022 leadership in collaboration with Global Entrepreneurship Network-Ghana (GEN-Ghana) will organise the maiden, UG-SRC Skill-UP for JobsBootcamp which is slated for mid-July - August 2022. The UG-SRC Skill-UP for Jobs Bootcamp project is an experiential training and exposure programme that has been designed to train, inspire,...
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Education has expressed satisfaction with the ongoing printing of textbooks for basic schools by Appointed Time Press (ATP), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC). So far ATP has printed and distributed 600,000 Science textbooks to government basic schools in the country. ATP is...
Campaign Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Education (CAPCOE) has called for the review of invigilation allowances, the ranking and reward schemes for Senior High School (SHS) teachers based on the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) performance, among others, to curb examination malpractice in the country. According to the...
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...
National Stakeholders from all sub-sectors within the education space have called for managers of educational resources to efficiently use the limited resources available, and depoliticise management of the sector to create a better future for the nation. According to the Stakeholders, it's urgent that different approaches are adopted to ensure...
The QI Group, a diversified multinational entity with a wide range of subsidiary companies in nearly 30 countries, has built a university that aspires to be the ‘Harvard’ of Asia. QI Group’s Quest International University (QIU) is a private Malaysian university established in 2011 under a public-private partnership with the...