It is the desire of every thriving nation to have a highly literate or well-educated society to contribute towards national development. The capacity to raise the standard of living of citizens through the provisions of educational facilities, employment opportunities and other social amenities must be the reason for any...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in partnership with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has marked this year's ‘My First Day at School’ with a donation of learning materials to several schools across the country.
The exercise is held annually at the beginning of every academic year to welcome schoolchildren back...
The Chief Executive Officer of Integriti Media, an avant-garde Pan-African public relations and communications agency operating across 8 African countries, Mr. John Kojo Williams, has lauded the appointment of a Ghanaian marketing scholar, Professor Robert Ebo Hinson as the Interim Vice Chancellor of the University of Kigali, Rwanda.
In 2021,...
The Ministry of Education (MoE), has withdrawn its proposed semester-based academic calendar for basic schools in the country due to the fierce resistance from stakeholders in the education sector.
It may be recalled that the Ministerial Committee on School Calendar issued a statement last week to announce that the current...
There are so many delicious vegetable and herbs to choose from that deciding which ones to grow may be one of the hardest parts of gardening! If you’re like many gardeners, as you flip through a seed catalogue (or scroll through, as most are also online these days), everything...
OpenLabs Ghana, the country's leading provider of Information Technology (IT) education, hosted a Graphic Design Exhibition to give 60 students who had completed a six-month Graphic Design training program at the Institute the opportunity to showcase their works and ideas.
Making a total of 100 students who participated in the...
The Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has commissioned and handed over to the Winneba Vocational Training Institute an ICT laboratory with a Library and Fashion complex, as well as 2 pavilions, as part of his resolve toward the promotion of technical and vocational training...
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...