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, […]
Deputy Director General at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr. Kwabena Tandoh, has stated that most people who showed up at the Black Stars Square for their Senior High School placement only came for replacements. According to him, over 90% who came to the Solution Centre are not those who were placed but rather they […]
Some first-year students and their parents who turned up at the Mfantsipim Senior High School (SHS) in the Central Region with their trunks and chop boxes on Sunday have been left stranded after they were turned away by authorities of the school. The school’s authorities claim the students who were placed in the school under […]
The Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for senior high schools (SHS) has placed 351,022 students for the 2019/2020 academic year. The students have been placed in 721 public and private senior high schools across the country. The figure represents 74.01% of the total 473,728 qualified candidates who were due for placement for the […]
