Parental concerns about children’s privacy are rising due to the growing use of diverse educational technologies to collect detailed information about their children. Schools collect lots of personal information from students without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
As soon as your child enters pre-school, information is collected about...
Ghana’s largest privately-owned indigenous bank, Fidelity Bank, has donated desktop computers to the ICT Centre of St. Mary’s Seminary Senior High School (SMASCO), Lolobi in the Oti Region of Ghana. The donation to the school is part of the bank’s social impact initiatives in education.
The gesture was in response...
One hundred and fifty Ghanaian youth across the country have benefitted from the Accelerated Oil and Gas (AOGC) Programme at the Jubilee Technical Training Center to fill the skills gap in the country’s oil and gas industry.
This cohort is made up of 127 males and 23 females. They were...
The Petroleum Commission is to set-up a Welding and Pipe fitting Centre at the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) to train welders to be professional for the oil and gas industry.
This, will be under the Ghana Welding Bureau (GWB), and it is expected that welders from the centre will be...
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...
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Classroom tantrums can come in the form of screaming, throwing oneself on the floor or even hitting others
Knowing and reading in between the lines for triggers is a good start for managing classroom tantrums
For the purposes of this article, the words: tantrums, meltdown and...
calls for review of the appropriation process
The Executive Director of African Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has stated that the Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) is unresponsive to the needs of the students, hence, the need to review it.
According to him, for the SLTF to be fit...
Building a culture of reading is fundamental to the success and growth of every society. Society and nations thrive on knowledge – financial, sociological, technological, psychological, religious and cultural – which is largely stored in books. Since books have always been the depository of knowledge, any tool that gives...
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...
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Reversing letters is common until around age 7
Writing letters backward does not necessarily mean your child has dyslexia.
There are recommended activities you can practise at home to help your child stop writing reverse letter.
It is not unusual for young children to reverse letters when they...
