The vice-chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey, has been adjudged the CEO of the Year 2021, in the education sector at the maiden Ghana CEO Vision Awards, held at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra. The highly respected vice chancellor was recognised for...
Stanbic Bank Ghana has handed over the second batch of 50 laptops to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in fulfilment of the bank’s commitment to the university’s Support One Needy Student, One Laptop (SONSOL) project. The donation brings the number of laptops given to the...
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), and Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT-GH), have embarked on a nationwide strike action to protest against the government’s refusal to meet their demand for Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA). The top four teacher...
The 1977 year group of West Africa Senior High School Old Students Association (WASSOSA) has handed over a corn mill and vegetable grinding machines to support the school. This kind gesture was also followed with an extension of the school’s kitchen to create convenience in the use of the donated...
Award-winning integrated marketing communications consultancy and corporate sales performance training powerhouse, Exposure Business Event, has held its maiden edition of the ‘Fusion Summit – Schools and Businesses of the Future’ in Accra. The strategic event was initiated to help businesses and private schools address some of the identified challenges and...
Academic City University College has hosted the Sci-Tech Fair second edition, one of two events of the STEM Festival - another initiative of Primetime Limited, producer of the National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ). Ten senior high schools have converged on the campus of Academic City and are being challenged...
The Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has revealed in its latest ‘Education Financing Brief’ that Ghana spends three times more education resources on children from the richest 20 percent of households than it does on those from the poorest 20 percent of households. According to Eduwatch, while a whopping 33 percent...
Patricia Obo-Nai, CEO of Vodafone Ghana, has asked the government and private businesses to work together to improve access to the Internet, and make smart devices more affordable to improve distance education in Ghana. According to her, emerging technology has changed the concept of distance education, where students travel from...
In September 2022, the United Nations organised a summit to discuss how to stop the global educational systems from collapsing in the wake of difficulties in the global economy. The summit, titled ‘Transforming Education Summit 2022: Global mobilisation to save educational systems’, provided an opportunity for global citizens to...
…as Accra Academy wins 2022 Capital Market Quiz To ensure that financial literacy increases among the citizenry, Advisory Board Chair for Financial Literacy Africa, Dr. Richmond Frimpong, has said it has become necessary for financial literacy be made part of the educational curriculum from the basic level through to tertiary...