The management of the University of Ghana (UG) has suspended lectures following the confirmation of a Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) involving one of its students. The university has therefore banned non-residential students from coming to the University of Ghana campus until further notice. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu made this known in a public address to the
The former National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr Kwame Adu-Nsiah, who was exonerated from allegations of “fictitious deals” in the management of the programme, has been laid off. In his place, Mrs Gertrude Quashigah, who has been acting in that position for about a year, has been confirmed as the substantive
The Ghana Education Service (GES) and Ghana Health Service have put in measures in all schools to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The two agreed to organise sensitization meetings for all Regional and District Directors of Education, School Health Education Programme, Guidance and Counselling Coordinators, training officers, all Heads of Senior High Schools
The Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has for the sixth consecutive year, presented a full scholarship to the 2019 overall best West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidate, Ms Melisa Abena Okyerewaa Amoah. A statement issued by the UMB Bank and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the event took place in Accra during
A schoolboy was punished after selling squirts of hand gel to classmates amid the coronavirus outbreak. The 13-year-old was caught letting children use his hand sanitiser for 50p a time after he extended the offer to a teacher.Staff called his mother, Jenny Tompkins, to ask for consent to send him home from school for breaching
The Government through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has presented a total of 365 double cabin Isuzu pickups and 493 motorbikes to the Ghana Education Service (GES) and other agencies under the Ministry of Education. These presentations according to the Vice President, H.E Alhaji Dr Mamudu Bawumia, is a continuous demonstration of the government
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has tasked school authorities to pay extra attention to English Language to ensure that students improve on the subject. Mrs Wendy Addy-Lamptey, Head of National Office, WAEC, said improvement on the language would enable candidates to enhance their performances in other subjects. Mr Addy-Lamptey was speaking at the Distinction
A school bus has ran over a 4-year old girl at Sawaba in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. Reports say the school bus with registration number AS 6088 C was supposed to pick up school children to the Happy Kids School which is also in Sawaba. One of the children a 4-year old girl called Ishatu went
Social Media user, Known as Kwabena Adade shared on his timeline about a disable Form one Student who had Aggregate 8 in last year’s BECE and was placed in his first choice School (Opoku Ware SHS). The Financial Situation his Mother is going through is nothing to write home about, but with the help of
The Assin South Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has cautioned adolescent girls to refrain from running errands at homes of male teachers to avoid incidents of sexual abuse, harassment, and defilement perpetrated by some teachers. It said sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and adolescent pregnancy were serious abuses impeding the health, education, social