Gold-track SHS students vacating Friday to go home in batches – GHS

Posted by - July 30, 2020

The Government is set to release a comprehensive discharge arrangement for gold track senior high school students as they vacate this Friday. Director-General for the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye speaking at a Ministry of Information press briefing said the students would be released to go home in batches after an official comprehensive discharge

GES to recruit 2017-18 teachers

Posted by - July 20, 2020

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is to recruit teachers who completed colleges of education in 2017 and 2018 before the next academic year. The service has, therefore, asked only graduates who completed within those years to apply for employment to work at places where their services would be most needed in the country. However, the

We’ll forward proposal for review of 2020 WASSCE timetable to appropriate committee – WAEC

Posted by - July 20, 2020

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is ready to look into concerns raised over the nature of the timetable for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for candidates in Ghana. An Education think-tank, Africa Education Watch, has asked WAEC to review the timetable because two elective papers for business students  — Financial

President wishes SHS finalists good luck as exams kicks off Monday

Posted by - July 20, 2020

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Sunday offered his best wishes to the 313,837 final year Senior High School (SHS) students, who will be writing their final examinations from Monday, July 20, 2020. The West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), which is both for selection to tertiary institutions and for certification, kicks off on

Students advised against lending textbooks to friends

Posted by - July 18, 2020

Ms Rejoice Biscoff, the Birim Central Municipal Director for National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has advised students to avoid lending their textbooks to their friends to prevent the possibility of transferring the virus to one another. She advised the students to stop stigmatization against victims of the coronavirus because it was discouraging and would

Covid-19: Sending students home will further spread virus – GES Director-General

Posted by - July 14, 2020

Deputy Director-General for Quality and Access of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr. Kwabena B. Tandoh, says keeping students in Senior High Schools with recorded cases is the best way stop the spread of the virus. He noted that if students are sent home without completing the contact tracing, monitoring the spread of the virus will be extremely difficult. This statement

Let’s Be Realistic About School Shutdown Demands – NAPO

Posted by - July 13, 2020

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has taken his time to explain government’s decision to allow SHS final year and Form 2 Gold Track students to remain in school in spite of a number of reported positive COVID-19 cases in some schools. In an interview on Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ programme on Monday morning,

New Koforidua basic school gets facelift

Posted by - July 13, 2020

The students, from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), are rehabilitating a three-unit classroom block, the office of the head-teacher and the staff common room of the school at the cost of GHc27,000.00. Mr. Lord Parker, the Deputy Team Leader of the group, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) during an inspection

Student Tests Positive For Coronavirus At Wesley SHS

Posted by - July 7, 2020

The Wesley Senior High School at Konongo in the Ashanti Region has recorded one case of the coronavirus. The case involving a student, has attracted the attention of health workers and contact tracers who have since been dispatched to the school. According to a Citi News report, the student was diagnosed with malaria and asked