students for non-payment of school fees and failure to register for the semester. In a statement signed by the Registrar, Mr. Moses Mclean Abnory and copied to the GNA explained that, 826 students had their programmes deferred due to the failure to register for the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. He said, “It
A school friend ordered a 12-year-old Somalian refugee to “get in the water or I’ll kill you” before she drowned in a river, an inquest has heard. Shukri Abdi was found dead in the Irwell near where she lived in Bury on 27 June last year. The youngster was with four other children before she died,
The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has said he was “needy” when he benefitted from scholarship meant for brilliant but needy students. Dr. Prince Hamid Armah, in a statement said he “applied for and won the scholarship in 2012 to study for a doctorate in Mathematics Education at the
Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education has described as ‘false’ the news allegedly carried by some media houses, that suggests that he received a scholarship from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to study in Harvard. “I have noted with dismay a news carried by some media, that suggests that I have as
Ruby Williams, with her parents Lenny and Kate, launched legal action against Urswick School in Hackney ( Williams Family ) A pupil has won a payout of £8,500 after she was repeatedly sent home from school because she had afro hair, which teachers told her was against the uniform policy and could block other pupils from seeing the
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has debunked assertions that the duration for Junior High School education has been extended to four years, whereas Senior High School education has been reduced to two years. In an interview, the Executive Secretary of NaCCA Dr. Prince Armah explained that the new CCP Curriculum is the
Joy News has copies of leaked examination questions of the ongoing promotion exams for teachers to various positions. Questions for the examinations set by the Ghana Education Service (GES) as well as the answers are said to have leaked hours to the examinations. Central Regional correspondent, Richard Kwadwo Nyarko who has been investigating the incident said he
Akoka, Afeez Baruwa, a part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos, has been sentenced to 21- years in prison by an Ikeja High Court on Thursday, February 20, for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl admission seeker. The Nation reports that Justice Josephine Oyefeso presiding over the case convicted Baruwa of a one-count charge of rape
The two lecturers at the University of Ghana who were at the center of the sex for grades scandal at the University of Ghana have been suspended. This follows the completion of the hearing of the matter involving the said lecturers – Prof. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Butakor — by the University of Ghana
Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has insisted that usage of mobile phones in Senior High schools (SHS) are not allowed per the rules and regulations governing second cycle institutions. However, he affirmed some selected SHSs have been allowed to pilot the usage of mobile phones in their schools as a means