... as AVI 2021 fellows graduate Businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have been advised to derisk and better position their operations to attract investors, drum up financial support, and boost growth. Following concerns that many enterprises fail in their quest to access funding because they are not investor-ready, experts,...
Sixteen year old Pearl Esinam Buadu of Chemu Senior High School has emerged the winner of The Young Debaters 2024 held over the weekend. She emerged winner out of 7 national finalists who were all vying for the same title. The finalists, from Chemu SHS and Accra High Schools...
The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), an education policy research and advocacy organisation, has described the practice of governments spending their countries’ limited resources without ensuring efficiency as the major problem affecting the education sector - citing the recent GH¢34.6million spent by the Ministry of Education on past questions (Pasco)...
Government has received US$150million in additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project 2 (GPSNP 2). The funding, according to a statement released in Washington by the World Bank, will expand and enhance social safety nets and provide access to productive income-generating opportunities...
Professor Rita Akosua Dickson, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has commended Anglogold Ashanti School for the impact and contributions the school has made and continue to make in the lives of Ghanaians both home and abroad. In a speech read on her behalf...
The town of Walewale in the North-East Region of Ghana has been the site of a groundbreaking project aimed at empowering female students with crucial digital skills. The ICT for Girls initiative is led by Vodafone employees through the company’s Employee Volunteer Programme and a dedicated team of local...
announce February 20 as reporting date The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked some 165,619 graduates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), representing 31 percent of the 2022 cohort, to access the self-placement option to be able to secure admission to the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme...
- 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...
As has always been the case in the education sector over the years, the bulk of 2018’s budget allocation will go into paying salaries - leaving little for infrastructural development. Although the education sector budget increased by 11 percent from GH¢8.33billion in 2017 to GH¢9.26billion in 2018, much of the...
MTN Ghana Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Communications, has donated an ultra-modern multipurpose library and robotic centre worth GHC770,000 to the Dansoman community in the Greater Accra region. Situated at the Ebenezer Senior High School, the facility is aimed at improving the reading culture of the community as...