A 57-year old Madam Elizabeth Yamoah, who enrolled at Odoben Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) in 2017, is among the candidates writing the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Madam Yamoah, who spoke to the Media at Odoben after writing the Information Communication Technology (ICT) paper, said she was determined to attend Senior High School
A Massachusetts high school student went to in-person classes on the first day of school despite having tested positive for coronavirus days earlier, officials said. Now, about 30 people who came in contact with the student at Attleboro High School are under a two-week quarantine. The mayor of Attleboro, a city about 39 miles southwest
The National Accreditation Board (NAB), in charge of regulating, supervising, and accrediting tertiary institutions in Ghana has re-echoed its stance with regards to the operations of some universities in the country. According to the Board, the tertiary institutions in question have either not gone through the full accreditation process in order to commence operations or
Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, has disclosed that the government would begin the roll out of the free Wifi for Senior High Schools (SHSs) in October, this year. She said despite the shutdown of schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, it was important that the country prepared for the
The Ministry of Education has explained that a recent meeting it held with private schools in Ghana was not aimed at facilitating the extension of the Free Senior High School programme to various private schools. According to the Ministry, the meeting rather focused on discussions around post-COVID-19 challenges in the education sector and the way
The fate of over 200 candidates who will be beginning their Basic Education Certificate Examinations on Monday, September 14 have resorted to using canoes to cross to Saboba to write their examinations. This is because torrential rains within the week have swamped the bridges on river Jamboabo, making it impassable to the district capital. While
A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Law Faculty, Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh was Saturday morning found dead in his Adjiringanor house in Accra under circumstances suspected to be murder. A family source has confirmed the death to Graphic Online. Details of how he died is sketchy as of now but some sources have
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says all is set for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). “The council has put in a great deal of work to get the test items and all logistics needed for the Examination ready. “All the question papers have been produced under tight security and surveillance of the
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has hailed the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) promise to absorb 50 per cent of fees for tertiary students if elected into power on December 7, 2020. It said the intervention, if implemented, would reduce the “huge” financial burden students grappled with, eradicate the “frequent” drop out of students
Some members of the Coalition of Certified Community Teachers (CCCT), in the Northern region, have appealed to government through the Ghana Education Service (GES), to absorb them. They said they had obtained their Untrained Diploma in Basic Education Certificates between 2014 and 2017, with registered numbers as trained teachers and had since passed their licensure