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, […]
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SHS placement saga: Most people at the solution centre ‘shopping’ for better schools – GES
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 […]
Authorities of Mfantsipim SHS turn away first year students
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 […]
Free SHS: 351,022 placed; 38,355 disqualified
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 […]
GNAT declares strike in 6 regions
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has joined the sister teacher group, National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in its industrial action against what they describe as unfavorable working conditions. NAGRAT declared a nationwide strike over the newly introduced Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) acquired by the Public Services Commission, unpaid allowances and […]
2019 SHS placements out
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all candidates who passed their 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into various Senior High Schools, Vocational and Technical Institutes for the 2019/2020 academic year. This comes after the West African Examinations Council released the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination results last week. According to Prof. […]
Introduction of Comprehensive Sexual Education: Presby Church cautions gov’t
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has cautioned government on the introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in schools. It said there is the need to be careful not to introduce ideas and attitudes that were incompatible with our religious and cultural values. In a communiqué issued at the end of the 19th General Assembly, […]
New basic school uniform: no pupil will be sacked for not wearing them – GES
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no pupil will be sacked for not wearing the new school uniforms for Junior High School students when the academic year starts in September. Commenting on its implementation, the Director-General of GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the old uniform will be phased out over a three year period. […]
Beneficiaries of GES/SIC insurance policy receive over GHC 126,000.00 in payments
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in collaboration with the State Insurance Company (SIC) has presented over GHC 126,000.00 to seven beneficiaries of the SICLife policy introduced for teaching and non-teaching staff of the Service. Among the beneficiaries are Mr Kofi Nartey, who was attacked by robbers and Madam Yohebeth Anyadi, who is undergoing treatment for […]
GES approves subjects for study leave
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has approved some subjects for study leave without pay for the 2019/2020 academic year. In a press statement issued to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations of the Service, the approved subjects applied to both teaching and non-teaching staff. The subjects […]
Education Ministry and GES officials visit family of murdered teacher at Asiakwa
The Minister of Education, Hon Mathew Opoku Prempeh on Monday led a delegation to visit the family of the late teacher, George Somuah who was callously murdered by some social miscreants at Asiakwa in the Eastern Region. After commiserating with the bereaved family, the team interacted with the aggrieved teachers who have laid down their […]
Gov’t set to introduce new school uniforms for JHS students from September
Government is set to introduce new school uniform for pupils in all public Junior High Schools (JHS) across the country. The move forms part of the new reforms in the educational sector announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo during his State of the Nation’s address in February this year. This reform will among other things see […]