Education

Bolgatanga, Ghana –  Paulina Patience Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has advised students in the country especially the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) to endeavour to follow laid down procedures and channels of communication to address their grievances. From the Students’ Representative Council to School Management to District Education Office …

Salaga, Ghana – Police personnel have been deployed to the East Gonja District of the Northern Region in search of Asuma Sulley, a teacher at the Salaga Senior High School for allegedly shooting a student. Drumbeatsgh.com.com gathers that the victim, Mohammed Abdul- Rauf, 18, a final year student of the Salaga Senior …

Zebilla, Ghana – Two new 3-unit classroom blocks have been inaugurated at Bulinga Primary School and Guzongo Primary School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was through the efforts of Frank Fuseini Adongo, Deputy Minster for Upper East Region and Member of Parliament …

Koforidua, Ghana – The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Kwame Adu Nsiah has said that the Government has solid plans to migrate the Junior High Schools (JHS) onto the school feeding programme immediately when all the primary schools in Ghana are fully covered. He said …

Accra, Ghana – Group Chairman of the McDan Group, Dr. Daniel McKorley has said Ghana is fast losing the battle for quality and relevant Education. Dr. McKorley who was a guest speaker at the 2018 edition of the SME and Young CEO’s Summit explained that “our ability to become competitive …

Sawla, Ghana – The Center For Active Learning and Integrated Development (CALID), has begun a review process in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District to establish the cause of poor students performance at the annual Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). At a recent forum in Sawla, which saw many education stakeholders including nongovernmental …

Tamale, Ghana – A former investigative journalist with the Chronicle Newspaper, Edmond Gyebi, has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider taking action against two soldiers who severely brutalized Christopher Bama for allegedly stealing a mobile phone. The two soldiers, Corporal Sampson Atuahene who is owner of the mobile phone and …

Tamale, Ghana – Governing Council Chairman of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Nutifafa Kuenyehia, has expressed concern about the inadequate infrastructure on all four campuses of the university as well as the lack of funding for research and staff development. According to him, the challenges currently confronting the university are …

Wa, Ghana – A form two student of the Presbyterian Junior High School in Wa in Ghana’s Upper West Region has been subjected to a severe torture by the school’s mathematics teacher only named as Ahmed. The torture has left the student with major cuts on his knees after he …

Tamale, Ghana – A new survey conducted in three districts in the Northern Region of Ghana has uncovered that, eight (8) out of 10 pupils in primary 6 in those districts cannot do class 2 level tests in numeracy and literacy. The report of the survey which was released on Thursday …