Education

“Sir, sir, sir,” scream more than 30 children in exhilaration, jumping out of their small wooden chairs in a classroom on the edge of a lush, grassy valley.The race is on at Berekuso Junior High School on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana’s capital, to see who can connect a series …

Member of Parliament of the Nandom Constituency, Ambrose Dery has honoured his promise to one Bogsor Naab Emmanuel, a former student of Ko Senior High School and now a student of Bagabaga College of Education in Tamale. As part of the MP’s drive to improve performance of students in his …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Northern Regional Chairman of the Conference of Heads and Proprietors of Private Second-cycle Schools (CHOPSS), Rahman Sulemana, has implored the government to reconsider its decision not to partner with private Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the implementation of its Free SHS programme. According to Mr. Sulemana, the FSHS programme though …

Tamale, Ghana – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched its second regional report for Ghana.The 2018 report focuses on Northern Ghana and explores human development outcomes in the context of significant socio-economic disparities in what has historically been the most-marginalised zone in the country.The report, themed: Bridging the …

Tamale, Ghana – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to launch a Human Development Report on Northern Ghana entitled “Bridging the Poverty Gap and Fostering Socio-Economic Transformation for All”. The report explores development challenges and opportunities in Northern Ghana and offers suggestions for poverty eradication in the zone. The …

When I first read about Government’s plans to adopt the double intake system for the Senior High School, I smiled in remembrance of the writer of Ecclesiastes 1:9 “ whatever has happened will happen again; there is nothing new under the sun.” As usual, I expected the announcement to excite …

Cape Coast, Ghana – Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Spokesperson for the Cape Coast Youth Development Association (CCYDA), is demanding accountability from Kofi Totobi Quakyi, the Chairman of the Committee that supervised the construction of the Atta Mills Presidential Library. Mr Garbrah made the demand when scores of irate youth from Cape Coast …

Accra, Ghana – The Ministry of Education (MoE) has expressed optimism that the double-track (semester/sandwich) system which is meant to cater for the spike in enrolment into Senior High Schools (SHSs) in Ghana due to the free SHS policy, will be beneficial.Ekow Vincent Assafuah, Public Relations Officer of the MoE, …

The number of beneficiaries of the School Feeding Programme has increased from 1.6 million children to 2.1 million children, the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori Atta has announced. The minister was presenting the mid-year budget review in Parliament Thursday afternoon. “We increased the School Feeding Programme from 1.6 million children to 2.1 …

A world citizen who received his education at six different universities across three continents, professor of modern languages, literature, and cultures Paschal Kyoore is the 2018 winner of the Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment award at the Gustavus Adolphus College. Kyoore, who teaches courses in French, African Studies, and Caribbean Studies, was …