The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced that the Bahamas will receive 300 Ghanaian teachers this year. The announcement follows bilateral negotiations between the minister and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Philip Edward Davis. During the meeting, Mr Ablakwa delivered a message of gratitude from President Mahama to […]
The Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has revealed that Ghana faces a substantial shortage of teachers, with the country requiring between 50,000 and 90,000 additional educators to adequately serve schools nationwide. Addressing Parliament on Thursday, June 18, the Minister explained that although the demand for teachers remains high, financial constraints and limited budgetary allocations have restricted […]
A new “low-cost housing scheme” for public sector workers is being implemented in partnership with Organised Labour and financial institutions, President John Dramani Mahama has said. This will enable nurses, teachers, doctors, and civil servants, for instance, to be able to acquire “diginified” government-built low-cost houses and pay over a period of up to 20 […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said the nationwide teacher promotion examinations will proceed on Monday and Tuesday next week, issuing stringent guidelines that bar any candidate without an official index number from writing the test. In a statement dated December 26, signed by the Ag. Deputy Director-General, Prof. Smile Dzisi, the Service assured the […]
If you are a teacher and you accept to be posted to a rural area in Ghana to teach, you will get an incentive of 20 percent of your salary under a John Dramani Mahama presidency, when he is elected President on December 7, 2024. This is one of the campaign messages of Mr Mahama […]
The National Teaching Council (NTC) has given all in-service non-qualified teachers up to 2024 to get themselves trained as teachers, else the law will kick them out of the classroom. “By 2024, if you are not a trained teacher, you cannot be allowed to practise,” the acting Director, Licensing and Registration of Teachers at the […]
Security persons of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in collaboration with the National Security, have arrested 11 teachers and a headteacher over alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which took off throughout the country yesterday. The 12 were picked up at two examination centres in the Offinso Municipality in the […]
Following appeals by teachers in private schools in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency for support in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, Member of Parliament for the area Lydia Seyram Alhassan has presented some cash to them. Madam Lydia who says she is only playing her role as a mother disclosed that the donation is […]
A teachers’ union in Kenya has threatened to evacuate its members from an area where three teachers were killed on Monday morning if the government does not improve security. The deadly attack happened in Kamuthe in Garissa county. A telecommunications mast and a police camp were also targeted. The teachers who died were not from […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has recruited 14,500 new teachers for basic schools across the country. The teachers, from the 46 colleges of education, completed their studies in 2018 and did the one-year mandatory national service. The Director-General of the GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic […]
