Month: July 2019

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Council, in a statement, said it will soon dispatch the results to the various schools and candidates can contact the heads of their schools for their results. However, the entire results of 48,855

The new tertiary education policy document is aimed at removing barriers that impede access to tertiary education, the Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has stated. He explained that the policy sought to improve academic performance and also strengthen the governance structure of public universities.  For instance, he said, the

The West African Examinations Council wishes to inform its stakeholders that it is yet to release the results of the WASSCE for School Candidates, 2019. Members of the public are urged to disregard rumours circulating in the media that the results have been released. The Council will duly issue a statement announcing the release of

 The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 26,434 SHS candidates who sat for this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The results were withheld over various cases of examination malpractices. WAEC explained that the results of the affected candidates would be cancelled if its on-going investigation finds them culpable.

Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister for Education, has said the new Kindergarten and Primary School Curriculum would be rolled out in the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year. He said the new curriculum seeks to address the inherent deficiencies in the current curriculum, such as content overload, limitations of the objective based curriculum and

Head of Planning and Monitoring at the Ho Municipal Education Directorate has observed that the school feeding programme was making some parents shed their feeding responsibilities in the various homes. He said the Directorate established that some parents dispatch their children to school without providing breakfast, which remained an important meal. Mr Adjei said this

The Ministry of Education and NetDragon Websoft Inc of China have signed a Memoranda of Understanding to develop a national experience centre for schools to benefit from the latest educational technology. The project will deploy and develop a smart classroom and school solution project in Ghana. This was contained in a statement from the Ghana

The Pru East and Pru West District Director of Education has expressed worry over lack of educational infrastructure impeding serious academic work in basic schools in the districts. He said 15 basic schools in the two districts study under trees, saying, many of the schools in the two districts also lacked classroom furniture and a

The Upper East Regional Minister Paulina Abayage has said it is still unclear how a student of Sandema Secondary Technical School died during a clash with police. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday she said the report from the hospital could not establish whether the student was killed with a gun or with another weapon.