The government will put into use five day senior high school (SHS) blocks, popularly known as E-Blocks, starting this year. The E-Blocks are among those started under the previous government but not completed. It brings to 21, the number of E-Blocks operationalised by the government, out of the 23 earmarked for completion under the current […]
The Ministry of Education has directed the Ghana Education Service (GES) to put in place the right measures to ensure that the practice of teachers engaging pupils in any form of child labour becomes a thing of the past. A Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, who gave the directive, said he was […]
The Ministry of Education is streamlining the food supply chain architecture of senior high schools (SHSs) to ensure effective handling of the food needs of the schools. In line with that, the ministry is building a database, which will include an automated system that enables the ministry to identify any potential shortages. The Minister of […]
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has agreed to suspend its strike following an emergency meeting with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and Employment and Labour Relations Ministry. This is contained in a memorandum of agreement between government and the Teachers Association. In conjunction with the National Labour Commission, the Ministry of Employment and […]
Government has expressed its commitment to address the concerns of the Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU). This comes on the back of a nationwide strike declared by the union on Wednesday. The industrial action by members was to demand better conditions of service from government. TEWU says its cannot comprehend that for close to […]
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 […]
Beneficiaries of the Students Loan Trust Fund are impressing upon the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) to intervene by impressing upon government to disburse their loans to them without any further delay. According to the beneficiaries, government seems to have deliberately neglected them by reneging on […]
The Ministry of Education has challenged the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNEEC) to provide evidence to back its claims of privatisation of pre-tertiary education or retract and render an unqualified apology. The ministry stated that at a meeting with GNEEC in 2018, the discussions were on partnership and not privatisation. Director of Communication at […]
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 […]
Construction works on the campus of the University of Environmental and Sustainable Development (UESD) in Somanya are 60 percent complete. The Minister for Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh who paid a day’s working visit to the project site expressed satisfaction with the progress of work and impressed upon the contractors to do a good job. […]
About 766 abandoned and new structures will be completed across the country, especially in schools running the double-track system, to provide enough classrooms to phase out the system for second-year students from September this year BestNewsGH.com can report. Currently, some have already broken ground to commence work and have been given six months to complete […]
Construction of a two storey ultramodern students hostel on the campus of the Sefwi-Wiawso Nursing Training College is speedily ongoing. This Project upon completion is intended to solve student accommodation challenges in the school and give it an elevation and make it a model school in the country. The move according to government is part […]
