The Ghana Education Service (GES) will soon allow students the leeway to send their smart phones, laptops as well as other electronic gadgets to school. Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, speaking on ‘Beyond The Lockdown’ on JoyNews Sunday, and monitored by BestNewsGH.com said the GES was earnestly reviewing the policy which barred the use […]
The Wa Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Theresa Ninang Sung-aabo has passed on, BestNewsGH.com can report. BestNewsGH.com can confirm that Mrs. Sung-aabo passed on, in the evening of Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital where she was undergoing treatment for an unknown ailment . Her passing comes a day after she was […]
The Ghana Education Service has with immediate effect, suspended the Upper West Regional Director of Education over allegations of corruption. Mr. Duncan Nsor has been accused of auctioning a truck belonging to the Wa School for the Death which was under his care, without informing the school authorities and the Director General of the Ghana […]
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has asked striking teachers to call off their ongoing strike. It follows a mediation meeting with the teacher unions, Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the employment industry. The National Association of Graduate Teachers, the Ghana National Association of Teachers, and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it will not be stampeded into paying illegal money to teachers under the guise of legacy arrears. According to the service, it had saved the government GH¢11.3 million after detecting some anomalies in the payment of the arrears and that there was the need to do more to verify […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is shocked at the decision by three teacher unions to embark on a strike on Monday over supposed delays in the payment of their arrears. According to GES, the industrial action declared by the teachers is illegal and ‘grossly an abuse of principle of good faith and good working relations”. The teacher […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has recruited 14,500 new teachers for basic schools across the country. The teachers, from the 46 colleges of education, completed their studies in 2018 and did the one-year mandatory national service. The Director-General of the GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic […]
Six basic school head teachers in the East Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region have had their October salaries blocked for vacating their duty post to serve as senior registration officers for the just ended Ghana Card registration exercise in the area. Twenty-nine other teachers from various schools in the district who also left their […]
Trained teachers who completed in 2018 from the Colleges of Education will be posted to the classrooms to begin work by the end of November 2019 the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced. The eligible candidates are those who passed the Teacher Licensure Examinations and have completed their national service. The GES in a statement […]
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) are due to recruit some 7, 730 youth across the country under the YEA School Support Programme. To this end, the two organisations yesterday, Monday, October 21, 2019 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which marks the official commencement of the programme. […]
The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has described the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum. According to him, Islamic teachings do not tolerate the exposure of children below age 10 to sex education. “We would like to state unequivocally that the Islamic Community does not accept any form of educating minors and pupils […]
Officials of the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) have started addressing various concerns of thousands of parents and children who have massed up at the Independence Square seeking senior high school placement. The process, which ended abruptly on Monday without a single case being attended to, was masked by chaos, frustration, anger and confusion, […]
