Education

  The Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana has noted that though the Free Senior High School programme being pursued by the Akufo-Addo administration is a laudable policy, but it is fraught with challenges that must be addressed. According to the church, but for the policy, most of the …

Government has been urged to implement across the country, the initiative of the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, to raise 1,000 young engineers in his constituency by 2030.   Dr Adutwum, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti region, has been sponsoring 100 …

Teachers and staff at the Ghana Education Service have witnessed an increment in their basic pay, after the 30 percent increase in the Single Spine Salary Structure for public sector workers. This increment took effect from January 1, 2023, and also includes a 15 percent market premium which the government …

The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has challenged Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions to improve their educational outcomes or stand the risk of having their institutions closed down. He explained that a school with a …

Officials of the Ghana Education Service(GES) in the Gushegu District have come under fire for making a student who is pursuing further studies at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS) travel over 428km to receive a cash award of Ghc200. Abdul-Latif Fawei who was …

  A total of 183 teenage pregnancy cases were recorded during the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) and the West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) in the Northern Region. This was disclosed by a worried Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Shani Alhassan Shaibu in his speech during Ghana’s 66th Independence day …

Three postgraduate programmes in genetics have been introduced at the University of Ghana to train professionals in the handling of diseases such as sickle cell, breast and prostate cancer in the country. The new programmes are Master of Science (MSc) in Genetic Counselling and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctorate …

The Ghana Education Service,(GES) in Collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has organized it’s second regional forum at Kedjebi in the Oti region to deliberate on the outcome of the JICA COMPASS REMEDIAL PROJECT which was agreed by all the stakeholders in the region in the first forum organized …

  VIDEO: Check out the poor state of dining tables of Pope John SHS     MyNewsGh.com has sighted a video on dining hall tables of one of Ghana’s reputable Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Eastern Region, and it an eyesore.   The dining tables of Pope John Senior …

  About a third of teachers who wrote this year’s Ghana Teacher Licensure Examinations, failed. According to the Registrar of the National Teaching Council, Dr Christian Addai-Poku, , as many as 44,000 out of the 120, 000 teachers who wrote the exams did not pass. He said the results of …