The Ghanaian Times | Education

Stakeholders Call For National Tertiary Plan

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Participants at a National Policy Dialogue on Tertiary Education in Ghana, in Accra, have called for a national tertiary education plan which ensures the sector contributes meaningfully to the country?s development. The plan must be formulated and sanctioned by such key stakeholders as the National Development Planning Commission, the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, regulatory bodies, the tertiary institutions themselves, industry, Metropolitan/Municipal/District Assemblies, think ... Read More

Western Regional Education Sector Review Meeting Opens

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr. Ebenezer Teye Addo, Western Regional Minister, on Tuesday called on teachers and stakeholders to express their views on the implementation of the compulsory aspect of free education. He made the call during the opening of the 2012/2013 Western Regional Education Sector Review Meeting at Fijai, near Takoradi. The theme for the meeting is ?Building a high-performing pre-tertiary education system in Ghana?. Mr. Addo said the compulsory aspect of free education has been forgotten and ... Read More

Letâ€™s Sustain School Feeding Programme

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Western Regional Minister, Mr Ebenezer Teye Addo, has appealed to stakeholders to formulate policies to sustain the National School Feeding Programme. The Programme aims at providing primary school pupils, at least, a meal prepared from local foodstuffs daily, to ensure their physical and intellectual development. Mr Addo made the call in an address read for him at a Regional Consultation and Validation workshop on the Programme, at Takoradi, last Thursday. It was attended by ... Read More

Police Probe Flogging Of Pupil

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The authorities of the Akuse Methodist Senior High School are expected to meet the parents of Ivy Korkor Djabatey, the final-year student who was flogged by two teachers, to see how best to resolve the matter A source close to the Akuse District Police which confirmed this to the Ghanaian Times yesterday, said the school authorities, together with some members of the leadership of the church would meet Ishmael Kojo Djabatey, father of the victim, together with the District Police Commander, ... Read More

Microsoft Organises Information Technology Workshop For Students

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft, a global ICT giant, has organised an information technology workshop, to motivate Ghanaian students to develop applications that can be used to solve real life problems in Ghana and the African continent. The initiative was aimed to expose students to Microsoft technologies such as Bing Search, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, Windows Azure, Visual Studio and open source technology. Addressing students at Ghana Technology University College in Accra, Mr Shina Oyetoso, Developer ... Read More

Achimota â€™88 Year Group Donates

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A Donation worth GH¢50,000 has been made over to the Achimota Senior High School by the 1988 Year Group of the school as part of its Silver Jubilee celebration. They include a multi-purpose science laboratory, water facilities and furniture. The group also provided six polytanks and a borehole pump to improve water supply to the various houses in the school. The automatic pump replacement which has an automated swish would pump water to the set houses at the rate of 50 liters per ... Read More

Take Politics Out Of Education

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Kumasi, Peter Kwasi Sarpong, has called on the political leadership to stop taking decisions which hinder the progress of education in the country. ?We have to think of the child, think of Ghana and end the politics,? he opined, adding that the situation where changes are made to the education system just because ?of a promise made on political platform must not be allowed. Archbishop Emeritus Sarpong asserted he did not see why the ?Sixth Form?was ... Read More

NAFTI Gains Varsity Status

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) will soon be upgraded to a Media Arts University and award its own degrees, diplomas and certificates. This is upon the recommendations of the committee instituted by the Ministry of Information and Media Relations, to enable the university chart its future growth. The Rector of NAFTI, Prof. Linus Abraham, disclosed this in Accra last Saturday, at its graduation ceremony, at which 50 students were awarded degrees and certificates, in their ... Read More

Indiscipline In Schools Retards Progress

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Minister of State at the presidency in charge of Finance and Allied Institutions and Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, has attributed Ghana?s slow development and progress to the breakdown of discipline in its institutions. According to him, people deliberately or ignorantly construe democracy as doing what pleases them and reiterated that any country or institution which bends its rules and regulations, to suit some class of people, cannot survive. Mr. Kwetey ... Read More

Lancaster University To Set Up Campus In Ghana

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Lancaster University in collaboration with its partner, Trans National Education Limited (TNE) on Monday announced plans to open the first British Branch campus in Ghana. The campus which will be one of its kind in West Africa would be known as Lancaster University Ghana and would be committed to produce graduates who have skills and knowledge to meet Ghana?s industrial, societal and governmental needs. Speaking at a news conference in Accra, Mr Ravghav Lal, the Project Director of TNE ... Read More

Final Year Students Vandalise School

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The final year students of Kollege High School at Darkuman Junction, Accra, went on the rampage yesterday and vandalised the school?s property worth millions of cedis. They were protesting against the failure of the school authorities to register them for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), now in progress. Numbering about 195, the students destroyed sliding glass doors and windows at the Administration Block, the classrooms, notice board, ceiling fans and ... Read More

Telecom Varsity Opens Campus In Nigeria

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), Accra, has established a campus in Lagos, Nigeria, Dr Osei K. Darkwa, the president, has disclosed. He disclosed further that the university has introduced a new technology-oriented educational model, which provides new cutting-edge programmes in information technology and related areas. The model is expected to reduce the burden of classroom work, such that courses could be divided into two with half being put online for the students to ... Read More

Confusion Rocks NOBISCO Over Suspension Of Students

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A total of 979 final year students of the Northern School of Business Senior High School in Tamale in the Northern Region, have been suspended for misconduct. School authorities said some female students scaled the walls and sneaked into town at night with their boyfriends. Others were also accused of littering the dinning hall with food served them. Headmaster of the school, Shaibu Wilberforce Adams however declined to make further comments. But some of the students who spoke to Joy ... Read More

UTAG Still Out Of Lecture Halls

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

University teachers across the country say they will remain out of the lecture halls until government pays in full arrears owed them. President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) Anthony Simmons confirmed this to Joy News. They announced a strike action on Tuesday in protest over delays in paying their 2012 market premiums. Government held a meeting with the leadership of UTAG on Wednesday to find an amicable solution but that meeting failed to reach a ... Read More

Govt Committed To VOTEC Education

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has assured of government?s continued commitment to technical and vocational education, to enable it train the required manpower needed by the country, and the wider global market. Towards this, the government has sourced a Chinese facility to rehabilitate 10 technical institutes in the country. Additionally, assistance is being sought from the Israeli and Canadian governments to upgrade the 19 absorbed technical institutes, ... Read More

University Teachers To Withdraw Services On April 2

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) have also threatened to embark on strike effective Tuesday April 2. In a statement signed by the National President of UTAG, Dr. Anthony Simmons, it said UTAG members will withdraw all teaching services in all public Universities to back its demand for immediate payment of all salary arrears owed its members since 2012. In addition, UTAG is also demanding that the agreed market premium factor be applied to the current basic salary as the ... Read More

Government To Support Vocational And Technical School Graduates- Minister

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr Akwasi Oppong-Fosu, Minister of Local and Rural Development has said that, the government would provide financial and logistical support to graduates of vocational and technical schools in order to make them productive. The Minister gave the assurance during his familiarisation tour to some of the vocational and technical institutions under the department of Community Development on Wednesday. He said the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development would team up with the ... Read More

Archbishop Anokye Appeals To Striking Teachers

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

THE Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi, Most Rev. Gabriel Justice Anokye, has appealed to teachers in general and Catholic teachers, in particular, to call off their strike and return to the classroom. He said even though they might be right in their demands, for the sake of Jesus Christ, ?go back to the classroom and teach.? The prelate, who said special prayers for teachers at the Palm Sunday celebration at the All Saints Catholic Church at Santasi in Kumasi, acknowledged the immense ... Read More

Teachers Call Off Strike

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Teacher unions across the country have called off their indefinite industrial action until further notice. The decision followed a meeting with President John Mahama and the leaderships of the teachers unions at the Flagstaff House on Monday. The president appealed to the teachers to suspend their action while their concerns were being addressed by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission as well as the Ghana Education Service. The teachers called the strike on March 15, 2013, to demand ... Read More

UDS Medical School Receives Vehicles

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Netherland Initiative for Capacity Building in Higher Education (NICHE) has presented two buses to the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) of the University for Development Studies (UDS). Madam Helen Bernot Ullero, Senior Programme Administrator of the NICHE, made the presentation and stated that the vehicles are to ensure the success of the capacity building project the NICHE is implementing in the school. The UDS, in collaboration with the NICHE and the Dutch government, ... Read More

STAR Ghana To Hold Second Annual Education Convention In Tamale

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

STAR Ghana, a multi-donor pooled non-governmental organisation (NGO) will on Wednesday, March 27 begin a two-day Second Annual Education Convention in Tamale, on the theme: ?Sustaining Partnership for Quality Education.? The event to be hosted at University for Development Studies Conference Centre will attract about 80 participants including STAR Ghana Steering Committee, donor representatives, STAR Ghana education grant partners, the media and other stakeholders. A statement issued in ... Read More

NAFTI Launches New Academic Programme

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) has launched a new programme called the Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in higher education. The Course is for lecturers and all other instructors in institutions of higher education. Professor Linus Abraham, Rector of NAFTI said the educational field had become very competitive with several other inlets of knowledge. He stated that students in present times, through access to facilities such as the internet and other ... Read More

Minister Appeals To Teachers To Go Back To The Classroom

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

he Minister of Education, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has appealed to teachers to accede to the directive by the National Labour Commission (NLC) and go back to the classroom. She reminded them that examinations were also times for their work to be assessed and added that nothing would be gained if they had all their requests met at the expense of the future of children. ?Examinations themselves are anxious times for children and anything that makes them more anxious is not helpful,? ... Read More

Ensure Incident-Free WASSCE - Govt Directs

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

THE government has directed all regional co-ordinating councils, metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives to liaise with their respective district directors of education and co-ordinators of National Service to ensure that this year?s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination is conducted without any hindrance. A statement signed by the Minister of Information and Media Relations, Mahama Ayariga said measures should also be instituted to ensure the examination is ... Read More

UCC To Offer Graduate Programmes In Business And Education

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) is to introduce graduate programmes in Education and Business, by the distance education module, beginning the next academic year. This is in response to the demands of the large numbers of graduates of the CCE, desirous of furthering their education, still by the distance mode. The programmes to be rolled out under Education, include Master of Education and Master of Philosophy in Special Education, ... Read More