The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that first-year senior high students for the 2024/25 academic year are expected to commence classes on Friday, September 27. School heads and parents are urged to take note and ensure their wards are well-prepared for the new academic term. In a press statement released on Tuesday, July 16, […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has explained that one of its platforms, ERESULTS.WAECGH.OR, used for checking of results experienced a technical hitch last Friday, December 10, 2021 between 4.45 p.m. and 6.00p.m. A message posted on its website, explained that the hitch resulted in subjects which originally had Grade B3 with the interpretation, GOOD […]
More than 100 category ‘A’ and ‘B’ senior high schools (SHSs) will run the double-track system for their first-year students. The decision was informed by the second wave of COVID-19, which has necessitated the observance of social-distancing protocols by students. Highly placed sources at the Ministry of Education and the GES hinted the Daily Graphic yesterday […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has come out with the guidelines for the reopening of schools. Dubbed: Guidelines for School Reopening During COVID-19, the guidelines are part of the measures put in place by the government to ensure that all educational institutions are safe for teaching and learning. With the guidelines, which have been circulated […]
Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, a former Minister of Education, has underlined the need for Ghana to develop its own education models to respond to its peculiar situation. She said the nation could not keep experimenting, and that even “if we must learn from others, let us look for the best”. “When we claim some model […]
The performance of candidates according to the GES was discouraging. Only 50% passed, qualified and really deserved to be in SHS but all candidates were admitted. From the 2019 BECE to be held in June 2019, the pass mark for entering into the SHS, Technical and Vocational Schools will be aggregate 25 or better. This revelation was contained in a […]
H.E. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, acting in accordance with his Constitutional mandate has, by a letter dated 16th August, 2018, appointed Dr. Kwabena Bempah Tandoh to act as a Deputy Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES). Dr. Tandoh who is a certificated Educationist and a consummate education professional takes responsibility for Quality […]
A group known as the concerned youth of Kusaug kingdom the in Garu/Tempane of the Upper East Region are calling for the immediate reinstatement of the suspended headmaster of the Tempane Senior High School (SHS), Ndego Dominic Amolale before Friday 12th October 2018 or face their wrath. The group in a statement signed by its […]
The Ministry of Education has denied media reports that government has began the process of canceling the double system in some Senior High Schools. Reports were rife over the week end that government had backtracked on the policy in some schools particularly in the Northern region over poor infrastructure. But the Ministry in a statement […]
Minister of State incharge of tertiary education at the Ministry of Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has called the bluff of former president John Dramani Mahama, practically telling him to mind his commentary about the Free Senior High School policy. In a press release issued by the Ministry and signed by the head of public relations, […]
Minister for Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has hinted of the inclusion of digital intelligence skills training in teacher training curriculum in the country soon. The move he explained is to ensure that teachers are adequately equipped to be able create awareness among children. The Minister made the announcement during a discussion on the need […]
Concerned newly trained teachers in the country are up in arms against the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service for what they say is a deliberate ploy by government not to employ them through the introduction of the licensure exams. One of the executives of the trained teachers, Lydia Owusu who expressed the […]
