Stakeholders in Education are being given an intensive training on the new Standard-Based Curriculum for basic schools to be rolled out in the next academic year; September 2019. Ahead of the Implementation of the new Standards Based Curriculum (SBC) in September 2019, the Ghana Education Service in collaboration with the National Council for Curriculum and
The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has condemned the killing of Mr George Somuah Bosompem, a teacher of the Salvation Army Basic School at Asiakwa in the Eastern Region, by some youth. “The Director-General and management of the GES have learnt with shock and disbelief the killing of Mr Bosompem. Management strongly condemns
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has condemned the alleged murder of the Headmaster of Salvation Army Basic School at Asiakwa in the Eastern Region. George Somuah Bosempem was reportedly murdered recently by a gang of ‘wee smokers.’ The suspects are Mireku Emmanuel 17, Philip Okodie,17, Paul Boadu,18 and Richard Amaning, 18, alias Konko. The deceased
The University, having incurred a judgement debt of 528 million cedis for failing to service a 43 million cedi loan it secured for the construction of the halls, has up to the end of May 2019 to make a good faith deposit of 50 million Ghana Cedis or risk losing control of the affected halls.
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education, has revealed his readiness to put into action, educational policies and programmes that will ensure quality delivery of education. Addressing a stakeholder engagement organised by Lively Minds, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), which specializes in ensuring that rural pre-school children develop the intellect they needed, he underscored the
The Media Coalition against Open Defecation (M-CODE) has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to adopt a strategy aimed at improving security on schools across the country. According to the group, physical and verbal abuse of school teachers is the order of the day in their quest to ward off community members from vandalizing
news, story, articleThe Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the disbursement plan for Senior High/Technical Schools’ incentive package had been revised. It said 80 percent of the total amount would be allocated to teaching, while the 20 percent goes to the non-teaching staff. These were contained in a release signed by Ms Cassandra Twum
For mercilessly beating the headmaster of Salvation Army Basic School at Asiakwa, resulting in his death, four young men have been remanded in police custody by the Kibi District Magistrate Court to reappear on May 14, 2019. George Somuah Bosompem died at the St Joseph’s Hospital, Koforidua, in the Eastern Region where he was rushed
President Nana Akufo-Addo Thirty per cent of the annual budget goes to the educational sector, President Akufo-Addo has stated. The decision to allocate the chunk of the national budget to the sector is informed by its importance to the maximization of the potential of the youth, who are key in the human development of the
The management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) says it is well-positioned to admit more students as the first batch of Free SHS students enter various tertiary institutions next year. The introduction of the Free Senior High School policy by the government has led to an increase in enrollment in second