The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has rolled out a comprehensive programme to assist senior high schools that are interested in farming. Interested schools will benefit from a partial grant, including supplies of inputs such as improved seeds and fertilizer. “We want to give every senior high school in Ghana that is willing to do […]
The Ministry of Education has initiated a comprehensive nationwide visitation and monitoring exercise to investigate the quality and quantity of food that are served students under the Free Senior High School initiative. This follows trailer of a yet to be aired documentary by Accra-based JoyNews’ titled “Empty Plates” which claims that many students in SHSs […]
Students who choose elective science in Senior High School (SHS) will no longer be required to take Core Mathematics and Integrated Science, according to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA). Director General of NaCCA, Professor Edward Appiah said this change is part of the new curriculum developed to improve the educational system. Speaking […]
Two educationists have proposed the scrapping of the boarding system as a major step in curbing indiscipline in senior high schools (SHSs). A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, and a former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, contend that the rationale for […]
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has called on the government and the Ministry of Education to allow parents to contribute financially towards the feeding of their children in school. In a statement dated Friday, July 21, 2023, the coalition said it was of the belief that the move would alleviate the financial burden […]
The Ashanti Regional Director of Education has opined that the introduction of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in Ghana’s education system could eliminate the ‘chew and pour’ phenomenon among students. Dr William Kwame Amankrah said STEM sought to expose students to practical ways of solving problems, thereby, moving students away from memorising their […]
A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has called on the government to grant senior high schools (SHSs) some level of autonomy to help improve education in the country. Such autonomy, he said, would give the schools the authority to mobilise funds to complement what the government provided for education, […]
The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has encouraged parents of students who just gained admission to senior high schools to take their wards to school. According to him, parents should not worry so much about meeting all the requirements on the prospectus before enrolling their children. “Parents of Ghana, if your child has not […]
All qualified Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who are being placed into senior high schools (SHSs) and technical and vocational institutions are expected to report to school on February 20, 2023. This is part of the timetable the Ghana Education Service (GES) has released for the academic year for all SHSs and also basic […]
Many second-cycle schools have expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. In separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, the management of some second-cycle schools expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. According to the management of some of the schools, they had put […]
In a response to calls to review the Free Senior High School (FSHS) Education policy, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the country needs a broader conversation on education and national development. “One of the things people are calling for is, and some say the government has to organise itself to respond to it… they talk […]
All Form Three students of senior high schools are permitted to go on mid-semester break from tomorrow, Tuesday July 20 to Sunday, July 25, 2021. A letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in charge of Quality and Access, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, however, said academic work should resume on […]
