Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), an education think-tank, has stated that the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Ghana Education Service’s (GES) intended plan to change the current trimester system at the basic and secondary school level to a semester system is needless.
According to Kofi Asare, the think-tank’s Executive Director, for...
-as several inefficiencies befall Common Core Programme pre-implementation
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) operating in the country’s education sector have expressed major concerns about several inefficiencies observed in preparations toward implementation of the Common Core Programme (CCP), a new curriculum, for basic school education in the country.
According to the CSOs, if...
A summary of the forthcoming Ghana educational reforms, as outlined by the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service and the National Council for Curriculum Assessment, has revealed that the West African Senior School Certificate Exams (WASSCE), will be replaced with a university entrance exam - with SHS3 final-year...
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has debunked news circulating in the media that has been attributed to one of its officers saying lecturers can resign if they do not like their current working conditions.
In a press release issued by the Commission, it expressed disappointment over what it...
Graduation Season
Normally in the last quarter of the year universities and other tertiary institutions will matriculate incoming new students as well as graduate outgoing students at various levels such as certificate, diploma, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate. Another graduating season, 2021, has come and gone with the same rhetoric from...
The tagline, mantra or slogan of every organisation defines its identity. In other words, a tagline speaks a lot about the uniqueness of an institution. Times without number, we hear of some institutions with catchy slogans such as "Excellence", "That All May Be One", "God Is the Light of...
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating in the education sector have urged the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, and his Deputy, Rev. Ntim Fordjour, to reduce the talks and initiate more action to show their competence on the job.
According to the CSOs - which included Africa Education Watch...
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has allayed fears that the ongoing strike action will impede the registration of freshmen (new entrants) in various universities across the country.
Secretary for the association Dr. Asare Asante-Annor, in an interview with B&FT, explained that the industrial action is for only classroom...
For the past three years, the pre-tertiary education level has been plagued with unstable academic calendars or timetables for studies, closures and reopening of schools; a situation described by the Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), an education think-tank, as an unacceptable major distraction.
According to Kofi Asare, the think-tank’s Executive Director,...
