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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teachers in some basic schools in the Ashanti Region have resorted to writing examination questions on chalkboards because authorities cannot afford to print materials. Children have to wait outside the classroom until the teacher is done writing all questions on the board before they resume their seats to write the paper. The old-age practice is […]
The Association of newly recruited teachers has again threatened to take further action if the Ghana Education Service (GES) fails to pay their salary arrears by the May deadline. According to them, though several promises have been made by GES, it has not fulfilled any of them. The association is also giving the GES until […]
The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GHNACOPS) has warned that over four hundred thousand (400,000) untrained teachers are set to be laid off by September 2019, following government’s insistence of continuing with the teacher licensure examination. The Council in a press release issued and copied to the media noted that the effect of the […]
