Education

Dungu, Ghana – The University for Development Studies (UDS) has signed an agreement with Jaksally, a local non-governmental organisation operating in the Northern, Upper West and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana. The agreement, which was signed by the Vice-Chancellor of UDS, Professor Gabriel Ayum-Teye and the Programme Coordinator of Jaksally, …

Dungu, Ghana – Twenty (20) students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) have received a sponsorship package from Barclays Bank. The sponsorship package which is given to brilliant but needy students was presented to students particularly from Science and Engineering disciplines at a Special Ceremony held at the Dr. …

Tamale, Ghana – Some unemployed graduates and experts at a forum in Tamale have unanimously agreed that Ghana’s educational training institutions are not offering the best of tuition that would enable students and graduates to function efficiently in class or at the work place. They say the government needs to …

Gbollu, Ghana – Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have made available education and vocational training materials in support of teenage mothers and victims of child marriage in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region. This is to aid some of them to return to school to pursue academic careers …

Sunyani, Ghana – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced that Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the country are going to benefit from massive infrastructural development by the close of the year. He said procurement processes were on-going for the government to supply 70,000 mono-desks whilst 42 community SHSs …

Broniamah, Ghana – Four foreign nationals – one Chinese and three Togolese – have been arrested by Operation Vanguard (the joint military/police taskforce against galamsey) at Broniamah, a community in the Amenfi Central District of the Western Region. The four, who were arrested on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, were allegedly indulging …

Kanvilli, Ghana – The Tamale School of Hygiene is currently saddled with myriad of challenges that are impacting negatively on academic work and safety of students, that is according to school authorities. According to Principal of the School, Bello Seiwu, the two-storey hostel building accommodating 270 students is a death-trap …

Kanvilli, Ghana – Principal of the Tamale School of Hygiene, Bello Seiwu, has appealed to government to also consider paying students of the school some allowances like their counterparts in the nursing and teacher training colleges. He said the lack of payment of allowance to students and jobs for those …

Tamale, Ghana – The Northern Sector Manager of Marie Stopes Ghana, Patricia Antwi-Boasiako, has said that the lack of sexuality education at homes and schools could partly be blamed for the increasing rates of teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortion practices in the country. She noted that, evidence in the literature …

Pong-Tamale, Ghana – Member of Parliament for the Savelugu Constituency, Abdul Samed Gunu and the Savelugu Municipal Chief Executive, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu have paid a visit to the Pong-Tamale Senior High School (PONGTASS) to have a first hand view of the destructions that were caused by a fire that gutted …