Education
PRESEC Holds 72nd Speech And Prize Giving Day
Sunday May 16, 2010
Teachers have been urged to effectively teach using multi-media in this Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Distance Learning era. This is believed to help students bring up their best performance academically which in a long way help build quality human resources needed for the national development. This was contained in a...read more
'Corruption Free Schools' Campaign Launched In Kumasi
Saturday May 15, 2010
A campaign, dubbed “Corruption-Free Schools,” aimed to educate pupils to eschew corrupt practices and to live upright lives when they become adults, has been launched in Kumasi.
The project is being championed by the Ghana Corruption-Free Schools Programme, a non-governmental organization, in collaboration with Bread For All, a Switzerland...read more
New Girls School For Kassena - Nankana
Thursday May 13, 2010
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, has performed the ground breaking ceremony for work to begin on a new school project for the Our Lady of Lourdes Girls Senior High School at Gaani in the Kassena-Nankana East District.
The first phase of the project, which is to be funded by the GETFund, is valued at GHC1.4 million and would...read more
School Heads Schooled On H1N1 Influenza
Thursday May 13, 2010
TEACHERS, particularly those teaching in crèches and nurseries, have been urged to critically observe the children under their care and report any possible outbreak of the HINI influeza infection and any communicable disease to school authorities for treatment. They should also ensure that the children carefully wash their hands with soap...read more
Enrolment Into Public Health Training Institutions Reduced
Thursday May 13, 2010
THE Ministry of Health has reduced this year’s number of student enrolment into the Public Health Training Institutions in the country.
In 2009/2010 academic year, 9,804 students were admitted by the Ministry into Public Health Training Institutions.
However, the Ministry is looking forward to enrolling a total number of 8,667 students in...read more
Old Vandals Protest Over Change
Tuesday May 11, 2010
The Old Vandals Association (OVA), the alumni of Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana, has appealed to the chancellor of the University, Mr. Kofi Annan, to intervene in the decision to make Commonwealth Hall a mixed gender and post-graduate Hall by the end of the second semester of the 2009/2010 academic year.
The decision followed...read more
Veep Stresses Importance Of Child Education In The North
Monday May 03, 2010
VICE President John Dramani Mahama has called on the people of the North to put high premium on their children’s education esp ecially the girl child.
He said poverty should no longer an excuse to deny their children access to quality education.
Mr Mahama made the call last Friday when he launched a programme dubbed “Tackling...read more
GNAT Sounds The Alarm Bell
Thursday April 29, 2010
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The National Executive Committee of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has reminded the management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) of the
"silence" over the non-implementation of the collective agreement by the Joint Negotiating Committee.
The committee is made up of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT),...read more
BECE Takes Off...So Far, So Good In All Centres
Tuesday April 20, 2010
THIS year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) begun throughout the country yesterday with English language paper one and Social Studies paper one. In all 350,888 candidates, including the visually impaired and the hearing, from 10,016 public and private junior high schools were registered to partake in the on-going exercise at...read more
BECE Exams Begin Today
Monday April 19, 2010
A total of 350,888 candidates from 10,016 Junior High Schools would from Monday April 19 to Friday April 23 2010 write this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at 1,278 centres throughout the country.
They are made up of 191,390 males and 159,498 females. In a goodwill message to the Candidates, copied to the Ghana News...read more
