Following reports of leakage of examination papers in the 2019 ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has explained that it has increased the inspection and monitoring of the examination at the various centres. In a statement signed and issued on Tuesday evening by Mrs Agnes
The Rector of the Pentecost University College (PUC), on Sunday said dishonest and incompetent leaders are to blame for the country’s development challenges. He said corrupt and dishonest leaders had plunged the country into “poverty, deprivation and underdevelopment” despite the abundant natural and human resources the country possessed. At the 10th Congregation (Second Batch) of
Celebrated writer and speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become the first African to deliver the Class Day Speech of the Yale College at New Haven, Connecticut. The event which held Sunday, May 19, on the eve of Yale’s 318th Commencement, was a celebration of the graduating Yale College class. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivers Class Day
The National Accreditation Board (NAB) and the General Legal Council (GLA) have commenced an assessment of institutions running Law programmes to ascertain the quality of training and the level at which they are operating within the mandate. The exercise is to find out what the institutions are doing right, what they are doing wrong and
Billionaire tech investor Robert F. Smith announced Sunday his family was creating a grant to pay off the debt of Morehouse College’s entire graduating class. Speaking during the commencement ceremony for the private, all-male, historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta, Smith made the surprise announcement offering an estimated $40 million to pay off the
The University of Ghana has launched a new four-year Bachelor of Education curriculum aimed at transforming Ghanaian schools into stimulating environments and to give opportunity to every learner to develop their full potential. The curriculum, which is under the School of Education and Leadership, College of Education, focuses on creativity, mathematics, science and technology and
WALDORF, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – Graduation season is now in full swing and three members of the same family will soon celebrate earning their college degrees – all from the same university! Shamir Taylor, a retired U.S. Army combat veteran, his wife, Nyema, a breast cancer survivor and mother of their two children, and
Students of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) have petitioned the Institute’s Governing Council over Management’s decision to prevent some students from taking part in the school’s end of semester exams. The students were prevented from taking part in the exams due to their inability to pay their fees in full thus
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has awarded scholarships to 200 Ghanaian students (170 undergraduates and 30 post graduates) to study medicine in Cuban. The GNPC is sponsoring them in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MoFARI) and the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health of
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, sees serious change on the horizon. In the next 30 years, artificial intelligence will outpace human knowledge, leading to job loss, the billionaire tells CNBC’s David Faber. “The new wave is coming. Jobs will be taken away,” Ma says. “Some people, who catch up [with] the wave,