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 […]
The Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has hinted that the government will soon engage universities for the possible reduction in the time spent on pursuing an undergraduate degree program. He said the government is looking at reducing the duration from the current four years to three years. According to him, in most countries all […]
By Selorm GBORBIDZI & John APPIAH Despite the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy by the government in 2017, parents are still coughing up money for extra classes for their wards. An investigation by The Finder has revealed that many senior high schools are conducting vacation classes for second year students on […]
Government has released an amount of Fourteen Million, One Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirteen Ghana Cedis twenty three pesewas for the payment of outstanding transfer grants and other allowances of staff of the Ghana Education Service. A letter signed by the Minister for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta and addressed to the Controller […]
The Ghana Education Service has sanctioned 10 teachers for various offences including sexual misconduct, defilement and stealing. Out of the number, 6 of the teachers were dismissed for sexual misconduct, 3 of them for stealing and 1 for defilement. Those who were dismissed for stealing were already convicted by a court. A statement issued by […]
Embattled Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Prof. Obiri Danso has been asked to step aside following violent protests last week Monday. The National Council for Tertiary Education has informed the Vice-Chancellor to make way for the interim governing council to take over the administration of the university. The Professor of […]
The coalition of concerned teachers has served notice that it will embark on a strike action on the 1st of November 2018 to protest the failure of government to pay them some arrears due them for a long time now. President of the Coalition, King Ali speaking on an Accra based radio station and monitored […]
