Education
Use Funds For Litigation To Educate Children
Saturday June 19, 2010
The Mankrado of Gomoa Manso in the Central Region, Nana Kwame Arhin, has called on parents and guardians to use their scarce resources to promote their children's education rather than spend it on litigation concerning land and chieftaincy. Addressing more than 700 school children, education directors and parents to mark this year's...read more
GES Needs 33,185 Trained Teachers To Fill Vacancies
Wednesday June 16, 2010
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says that although it needs over 33,185 trained teachers to fill vacancies at the basic education level nationwide for the next academic year, only a little over 8,000 new teachers will be available.
The teacher training colleges, the main sources of teacher supply for the public basic school, will supply...read more
Plan Ghana Awards Scholarships To 25 Students
Tuesday June 15, 2010
Plan Ghana has embarked on an advocacy campaign dubbed “learn without fear” to create a safer school environment for children in the Bawjiase area of the Central Region.
A 13-member steering committee headed by Nacyi Barfowa, Queen mother of Awutu Papase, was inaugurated to carry out the education on the harmful effects of child sexual abuse,...read more
Education Policy Must Respond To Critical Areas Of Global World
Monday June 07, 2010
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Mrs Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, has observed that the challenges of the global world today could only be confronted with a credible, well-articulated and sustainable educational policy.
This policy, she said, should respond to critical areas of human resource development and...read more
CHASS Appeals To Feuding Factions To Cease Fire For Effective Teaching And Learning
Monday June 07, 2010
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and the Association of Principals of Technical Institutes (APTI) have appealed to the feuding factions in the North to ceasefire to ensure peace to prevail and to pave the way for effective teaching and learning in schools in the area. They expressed gratitude to the government for...read more
Come OUt With Technical/Vocational Levy - City & Guilds Rep.
Monday June 07, 2010
The City and Guilds Regional Representative for West Africa, Kingsley Koranteng Asiedu, has suggested to the government to come out with technical/vocational levy with the aim of channeling it into the technical and vocational education as priority to national development. Addressing a news conference in Accra, Mr Asiedu said...read more
Introduce Programmes To Equip Students With Skills - Annan
Monday June 07, 2010
THE Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Joseph S. Annan has urged polytechnics in the country to introduce relevant programme that will equip students with skills, competencies and expertise to help in the growth of industry and commence in the country. By designing programmes and courses that meet the current demands, polytechnics will be...read more
Ghana School Feeding Programme To Cover 1,040,000 Pupils
Wednesday June 02, 2010
THE Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), is to be expanded to cover 1,040,000 pupils by the end of the year.
The programme currently covers 656,624 pupils. It was started in 2005 following the African Union-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU-NEPAD) recommendation to use home-grown food.
The Minister of Local Government and...read more
MP Donates Computers, Accessories To 2 Senior High Schools
Wednesday June 02, 2010
The Member of Parliament for Pru, Alhaji Masoud Baba Abdul-Rahman, has donated 36 computers with accessories and a large quantity of assorted library books to the Yeji and Prang Senior High Schools in the Pru District in the Brong Ahafo Region. Presenting them at a brief ceremony here, Alhaji Abdul-Rahman stressed the need for the nation,...read more
Government Textbooks Diverted
Tuesday June 01, 2010
About 29 per cent of English Language textbooks meant for distribution to public basic schools nationwide, do not get to the beneficiary schools.
“Even though the books are recorded to have been dispatched to the schools, they get missing between the distribution depots and the schools,” Mr. Kofi Asare, Programmes Officer of the Ghana...read more
