Wa, Ghana – A Deputy Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in charge of Supervision in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region, Huudu Alkilah Kunnatey, has disclosed that the district has recorded high enrolment levels in recent times, but the lack of infrastructure is compounding the situation. …
Read More »Plan Ghana Inaugurates School at Tatale-Sanguli
Tatale-Sanguli, Ghana – Plan Ghana International, an international non-governmental organization working in the Tatale-Sanguli District of the Northern Region, has provided a 12-unit classroom block for Sangban Da Primary School. Plan-Ghana International constructed and furnished six-unit classroom blocks each for the communities, to enhance teaching and learning. It has also provided …
Read More »Don’t Politicise National Issues — UDS Vice Chancellor
Tamale, Ghana – The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, has bemoaned the over-politicisation of every national issue in the country, including education. According to him, every issue was seen in the lenses of either the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the New …
Read More »PAC Member Worried Over ‘Abandoned’ GETFund Projects at TaTU
Tamale, Ghana – A member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Ghana’s Parliament and Member of Parliament for the Bunkpurugu Constituency in the Northern Region, Solomon Boar, has expressed concern over abandoned GETFund sponsored projects at the Tamale Technical University (TaTU). Mr. Boar believes that, the projects which were …
Read More »Poor State Of Education Uncovered in Goh
Goh, Ghana – Many have said that education is the key to success. Our leaders, past and present, have always maintained that for Ghana to develop there is the need to improve the literacy rate. As a result, there have been many policies over the years geared at improving education …
Read More »Infrastructure Deficit Impeding Teaching of ICT in Northern Region
Sagnarigu, Ghana – The Gbolo Alzariya English and Arabic Primary school in the Sagnarigu District is one of many schools in the Northern Region without Information Communication and Technology (ICT) laboratories and tools. The school’s headmistress, Madam Mahama Maria, revealed to Citi News that the only laptop used for teaching the pupils has been …
Read More »Karaga JHS Students Studying Under Straw Sheds
Karaga, Ghana – Students of Karaga Junior High School in the Nanumba North district of the Northern region have been forced to study under very deplorable conditions. The structure housing the JHS students can best be described as a farm shed, which school authorities have said is home to all sort …
Read More »Pupils of Radiya E&A School Lie on Bare Floor to Study
Savelugu, Ghana – Pupils of Radiya English and Arabic Primary school in the Diare Township of the Savelugu/Nanton Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana, have to sit or lie on the bare floor to study due to lack of furniture. Despite having a total student population of 437, the …
Read More »TaTU: A University That Hire Graduation Robes Despite Having a Fashion Department
Tamale, Ghana – A month ago, specifically on November 18, 2017, the ‘Tamale Technical University’ (TaTU) held its 11th congregation which saw some one thousand, six hundred and ninety-four students successfully graduating with different honours. Congregations or graduation ceremonies are very important occasions of every tertiary educational institution especially universities. …
Read More »Of School Dropouts And Why There’s Nothing Bad Being One
Tamale, Ghana – There are many people who believe that they can never make it in life once they dropout from school. It is even worse when such people begin to think or see themselves as the most stupid, incapable or a failure in their class, family or among their …
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