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Teachers will earn better Renumeration under my Administration – President Akuffo Addo

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed teachers will be earning better remuneration under his administration.

Speaking at the 21st Congregation of the University of Education, Winneba on Saturday, President Akufo-Addo noted the NPP government will ensure that it gets the education policies right for teachers to receive the respect they deserve.

“We must begin demonstrating our commitment to the education of our children by respecting teachers,” President Akufo-Addo stated.

He added: “We cannot value the education of our children and yet disrespect the teachers who teach them. I am committed to ensuring that teachers get better pay and better working conditions.”

Accept postings to rural Ghana

Pro Vice Chancellor and acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Rev. Fr. Prof. A. Afful-Broni, charged members of the graduating class to accept posting to rural Ghana.

Prof. Afful- Broni urged the graduants to willfully accept postings to remote areas of the country and not only the major cities of the country such as Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Cape Coast.

Graduation Statistics

In all, a total of 10,587 students are graduating at various levels. Out of the total number 6,644 are from the Southern sector and 3,943 are from the Northern sector of the country. In terms of awards, 904 are receiving post graduate degrees, 6,008 are receiving graduate degrees and 3,675 are receiving diploma awards.


Shocking:SHS Student Confesses for having Sex with His Grandmother for 5 Years

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The shocking account of how a 23-year-old who has been in an amorous sexual relationship with his 52-year-old grandmother for the past 5 years has left residents of New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region spellbound.

Sampson Lartey [not real name] who developed the habit of masturbating after his colleagues introduced him to the act, revealed that he was at one point in time caught in the act by his grandmother. He claims his grandmother used that information to blackmail him into having sex with her.

Subsequently, he began sleeping with his grandmother. He was 18 at the time.

“I was eighteen (18) years when it all started. I lived with my grandmother when I was fourteen (14). My parents were not in the country by then, so I spent a lot of years with my grandmother. She took care of me just like her son, and gave me the best of education.

It was vacation, I was inside my room masturbating. The pleasure in the act made me forget that I had not locked the door. Half through the process, my grandmother who wanted to send me on an errand suddenly opened the door. There I was, masturbating. She had caught me in the act. I felt very ashamed and dirty.  She closed the door gently without saying a word.

Days after the incident, the cordial relationship that existed between my grandmother and myself froze. I panicked anytime my eyeballs met with hers. I had my nerves loosened. What have I done to myself? I quizzed over and over again.

I gathered courage and went to my grandmother; I apologized to her for the mess I have created. She told me right in the face that, what I have done is a great offense and she finds it very difficult to forgive me. My heart was bleeding after she made these pronouncements. I was sobbing. She could sense I was frustrated and had regretted ever doing that,” he narrated.

He continued, “She drew me closer to herself and asked me to calm down. She assured not to tell anyone about what happened and made me promise her it is not going to happen again. I felt very excited. At least I can feel at ease at home,” he said.

Describing how his first sexual act with his grandmother happened, Lartey said he succumbed to lust after walking in on his ‘naked’ grandmother on his way back home from an errand.

“My grandmother sent me on an errand one Saturday afternoon and asked me to bring the item into her room. I knocked at her door and she ordered me in. When I entered, what I saw was scary. I saw the nakedness of my grandmother. She asked me to come closer to her since I was stunned beside the door. It took a long pause but I eventually went closer. I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen, but curiosity took me there.

Even though I knew it was erroneous for me to do that, I proceeded anyway. I felt very confused and frustrated but that did not stop me from making love to my grandmother after one act led to the other. And from there we’ve had sex regularly for the past five years’’. He lamented.

Lartey says he regrets the act with his grandmother saying the situation has cost him his relationship with his girlfriend.

“Though my girlfriend is not aware of my sex escapades with my grandmother but in a way, it has affected the healthy relationship I used to have with my girlfriend. As a result, my girlfriend has decided to call it quits since I do not give her the necessary attention, care and love anymore”.

He added that despite feeling guilty about the act which has also led to a decline in his academic performance, he finds it extremely difficult to desist from it.

“I really want to stop this bad behaviour but am really finding it difficult and it has even again affected my education. My grades are getting worse as the day goes by and all what I think about is my grandmother but nothing else. I feel very guilty for everything I have been doing with my grandmother. I pray no one especially the youth, enters a predicament like this because it is very disgusting and can haunt you for the rest of your life”.

UCC Regular Admission List for 2017/18 Academic year – Download Here

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The list of Succesful applicants into the University of Cape Coast (UCC) for the 2017/18 academic year  has been released by the University authorities.

Applicants who applied as regular students in the underlisted Courses of study should download the admission list beneath the Underlisted Courses.

BACHELOR OF ARTS

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF LAW (LLB)

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY

DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY

Click on the link below to download full admission list

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Disbursement of Teacher Trainees’ allowances to begin September

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The Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) will, from September this year, begin the disbursement of trainee allowances restored by the Akufo-Addo administration.

All teacher trainees who took student loans last year, after the Mahama administration had scrapped the allowances, will pay the loan, even after the allowances have been.

The Chief Executive of the SLTF, Nana Agyei Yeboah, told the Daily Graphic that although the allowances had been restored and students would receive them from September this year, those who took the student loans would have to pay them.

“The loans have nothing to do with the restoration of the allowances. Those who took them have an agreement with the trust and so they have to pay them,” he said.

In the 2013/2014 academic year when the trust began giving loans to teacher trainees, 2,647 students in public colleges of education benefitted.

The number of beneficiaries increased to 5,425 in the 2014/2015 academic year and 7,970 in 2015/2016 but declined to 6,013 in the 2016/2017 academic year.

During those three academic years, almost 3,000 students in private colleges of education also benefitted from the loans.

Nana Yeboah, however, said students at all levels in the colleges of education would, from September, begin to receive the trainee allowances.

He said the SLTF would disburse the funds in accordance with the modalities agreed upon with principals of the colleges.

Modalities

The principals have, accordingly, been asked to submit information, including the names of their registered students for the academic year, their levels, identification numbers, enrolment year, expected completion year, programmes of study and nationalities.

The students are also required to have E-zwich account numbers, valid and active phone numbers, as well as social security numbers

Those requirements, he said, were to prevent impersonation by people, including foreigners, who were not qualified to benefit from the allowances.

He said the disbursement of the allowances to the trainee institutions could be made either on a monthly or semester basis and beneficiaries were expected to receive equal allowances, unless otherwise decided by the government to pay according to programme categories.

Pros and cons

The Mahama administration scrapped the payment of the allowances in the 2013/2014 academic year and replaced it with loans from the SLTF, arguing that it would increase enrolment in the various colleges of education and reduce the financial burden on the government.

In December last year, a Deputy Minister of Education in the erstwhile NDC government, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the abolition of the teacher trainee allowances had increased enrolment in the colleges of education by 63.8 per cent.

He explained that before then, admission to the colleges was restricted by a quota system, with the colleges admitting only 40 per cent of their capacity in view of the financial considerations.

That, according to him, prevented many prospective applicants from gaining admission to the colleges and that resulted in teacher deficit in the classrooms.

He said with the scrapping of the allowances and the quota system, enrolment into the colleges of education increased from 27,000 to 47,000 in the 38 colleges.

According to Ministry of Education statistics, considering the current enrolment figure of 47,000 in the colleges, the government would have spent GH¢282 million on allowances last year if the allowances regime had been in place, since each student received GH¢500 a year.

However, the NPP, during its 2016 election campaign, insisted that the country still needed more teachers and nurses and pledged to introduce the allowances, since they served as motivation for many to attend nursing colleges and colleges of education.

Resume full Academic duties – Nana Addo tells UEW lecturers

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked lecturers of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to resume full academic duties and use the university’s processes to resolve any outstanding grievances.

He also charged the newly constituted Governing Council of the university to do all within its power to see to an amicable settlement of all matters currently pending before the Winneba High Court.

The President, who was addressing the second session of the 21st Congregation of the UEW, also called on the Chairperson of the Governing Council to “urgently ensure that the council puts in place measures to seal all loopholes of waste and the abuse of public funds”.

In all, 10,587 students, made up of 6,644 from the northern and 3,943 from the southern sectors of the country, respectively, graduated from the UEW.

Out of the number, 904 students received postgraduate degrees, 6,008 obtained bachelor’s degrees, while 3,675  received diploma certificates.

Recent events at the UEW

The President said while being aware of the disturbing happenings at the university, it appeared that finality was being brought to bear on the matters.

In his view, the current challenges could be best surmounted if all stakeholders acted within the confines of the law and respected the rule of law.

“Court decisions are not always pleasant, but they are, in principle, the surest way of resolving disputes. Let us not, through our utterances, actions and inaction, undermine the authority of our courts,” he cautioned.

Extolling the role of teachers in the government’s transformational agenda, the President observed that almost all modern, successful societies had outstanding results in training and economic development.

Countries such as Singapore, Finland, Korea and Canada, Nana Akufo-Addo said, had shown that teacher quality was the single most important determinant of their successes.

Plans for teachers

For Ghana to make success, there was the need for the state to pay attention to teachers, he said, adding that teachers constituted the only crop of well-trained, self-confident and contented professionals who could deliver the educated and skilled workforce the state required to transform the economy.

He indicated that the government intended to restore the teaching profession to the status it once enjoyed and make it an attractive career choice.

“Teaching must no longer be seen as a stop-gap measure or a job of last resort but as a viable choice to enter a well-paid, well-respected profession with long-term career prospects and good benefits,” he pointed out.

Accordingly, he said, the government intended to facilitate teacher training nationwide and work in partnership with the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and other teaching associations to facilitate an affordable housing scheme for teachers.

“We will also support teachers to enrol in distance education programmes to boost their capacity. This is in line with our policy of motivating teachers and rewarding their hard work in the classroom. It is for this reason that the government, from September, is re-introducing the teacher training allowances that were cancelled by the previous government,” he reiterated.

As a policy, President Akufo-Addo said, the government was going to partner the UEW and all public universities in the country to raise and improve standards, so that they could compete with the best on the continent.

Jobs

On job creation, he said, it was a widely recognised fact that in order to create the hundreds of thousands of jobs needed by graduates from the country’s tertiary, technical, vocational and senior high schools, there was the need for Ghana to move from being an economy dependent on the export of raw materials to an economy of value-addition.

“We must process the natural resources we have to enable us to reap higher benefits. It is with this aim of transforming our economy that my government is determined to partner the private sector to set up strategic industries to help create jobs for our youth,” he said.

He said  60 years after independence, the progress the nation had made had been slower than it ought to have been, adding that it was time to make the bold moves that would enable Ghana to make rapid progress to transform the economy and the lives of Ghanaians.

The President said the government had made education one of its topmost priorities and that instead of revenue from the mineral and oil resources ending up in the hands of a few people, he was of the firm belief that the most equitable and progressive way of using that revenue was to educate and empower the population.

A word to graduates

The Pro-Vice Chancellor and acting Vice-Chancellor of the UEW, Rev. Fr Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni urged the graduating teachers to accept posting to rural areas.

“Be willing to accept posting to some of these universities that have been built, some of these technical universities that have been created,” he urged.

He said the graduating groups were profoundly critical human resource who would propel and showcase the UEW’s contribution to the development and progress of Ghana and abroad.

Notice:Vacancy for Staff of UEW opened – Apply Here

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Applications are invited from suitably qualified staff of the University for appointment to the following positions in the University of Education, Winneba:

  1. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Educational Studies, Winneba
  2. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Social Science Education, Winneba
  3. Dean and Vice-Dean, School of Creative Arts, Winneba
  4. Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Winneba
  5. Dean, Business School, Winneba
  6. Director, Institute for Distance and E-Learning, Winneba
  7. Director, Institute for Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development, Winneba
  8. Director, Quality Assurance, Winneba
  9. Dean, Office of Dean of Student Affairs, Winneba
  10. Vice Dean, Office of Dean of Student Affairs, Winneba, Kumasi, Mampong and Ajumako
  11. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Communication, Winneba
  12. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Ghanaian Languages Education, Ajumako
  13. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Agriculture  Education, Mampong
  14. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Technical Education, Kumasi
  15. Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Vocational Education, Kumasi
  16. Dean and Vice -Dean, Faculty of Business Education, Kumasi
  17. Director and Deputy Director, Centre for Competency-Based Training and Research (CCBTR)

The Dean of Faculty is a Senior Academic Officer reporting to the Vice-Chancellor or any other person acting on his/her behalf.  He/she provides strong leadership and vision for the design, delivery and continuing review and assessment of all academic programmes and courses.

Responsibilities:

Per Statute 28 of UEW Statutes the Dean of Faculty/School shall:

  • be responsible for providing leadership to the Faculty in the exercise of its powers specified in these Statutes.
  • be the Chairperson of the Faculty Board and the Head of the Faculty.
  • in consultation with the Heads of Department, have the responsibility for the training of students and for the monitoring of Lecturers on study leave.
  • liaise with professional institutions, associations and similar bodies, and organise consultative committees comprising Faculty members and experts in the various professional fields within the Faculty.
  • liaise and corporate with other Faculties in the organisation of common courses.
  • coordinate the work of the Departments within the Faculty.
  • consult with, and be assisted by the Heads of Department in the execution of his/her duties.

Minimum Requirements:

Staff seeking appointment as Dean must:

  • be of  Professorial rank,
  • however, staff who have served in the capacity as Senior Lecturer for at least four (4) years and have eight (8) papers after promotion may apply.

Mode of Application

Interested candidates are requested to submit an application letter together with the following:

  • Ten  (10) copies of Curriculum Vitae, including Names and Addresses of three (3) referees; and,
  • Ten (10) copies of two-page statement of candidate’s vision for the Faculty.
  • Indicate which Faculty he/she wishes to be considered.

Application letters should be addressed to the Registrar, University of Education, Winneba, P. O. Box 25, Winneba.  Application materials should be submitted by 11th August, 2017.

Only short listed candidates will be considered.

SGD REGISTRAR

New UEW Council ratifies Certificates of Graduates from 2013 to 2017

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The re-constituted University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Governing Council, has duly ratified all, Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees, which requires ratification from September 1, 2013 to June 28, 2017.

Professor Emmanuel N. Abakah, UEW Governing Council Chairman made this known at a conferment ceremony organised for its students in the southern sector at Winneba.

He said all staff promotions, which required ratification and convocations elections has been done.

He lamented that, speculations all that, newly appointed staff if the university will lose their jobs were absolutely malicious and trumped-up story and the general public should ignore such speculation as such.

According to Professor Abakah, the Council has resolved to promote and ensure productive working environment in the area of appointment, promotions, and awards system devoid of personal interest and sentiments.

He said the members shall maintain healthy and competitive academic environment to promote scholarship in all the campuses, and cure mischief and irregularities in the system for smooth, peaceful and harmonious co-existence in the University.

The Chairman congratulated the graduands for their achievements that would hold them to a very high esteem with high expectations.

He urged them to always to put God first in all their endeavours since the world kept on changing with challenges.
Prof Abakah asked them to forge ahead and make meaningful impact wherever they may find themselves.


Source: GNA

Indomie renews Support for UCMAS Competition

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Mahesh Shah, the General Manager for De United Foods Industries Ltd (DUFIL), producers of Indomie instant noodles has renewed his company’s commitment to support the promotion of Mathematics Education in Ghana.

Mr. Shah said he wants to help spread awareness among the children about the importance of mathematics. He believes that mathematics will help create future problem-solvers of Ghana and of the world at large.

According to him, mathematics will help create future problem-solvers for Ghana and the world at large.

He made the comments at the National UCMAS competition held in Accra.

Universal Concept Mental Arithmetic System (UCMAS), is an educational group, engages in the holistic training of children using special techniques that enable pupils to do arithmetic calculations mentally within seconds.

Every year, a nationwide competition is held where a champion is elected.

Mr. Shah, said Indomie will continue to support UCMAS because it has become one of the major projects that inculcate love for mathematics among children.

He expressed his wish that more children are encouraged to study mathematics.


Gov’t Must Ensure Equity in Rural and Urban Areas in Free SHS Implementation – GNAT

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The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) will be keeping a close on the government to ensure it fulfills its commitment to ensuring equity across the nation as far as the secondary education is concerned.

The association has urged the government to ensure the fair distribution of teaching and learning materials under the policy to guarantee that students from deprived areas are not disadvantaged.

The Association has also lauded government’s decision not to cater for students who are repeated in a stage for academic non-performance.

Announcing the details of the policy that will kick start come September, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh said students who repeat their classes will not enjoy the free packages under the policy.

Speaking to Citi News, the GNAT General Secretary, David Ofori Acheampong, said “for me, if the rule is that if you don’t make the grade, you lose your scholarship, I don’t have a problem with that. That should serve as a motivation for a lot more of our students to get serious.”

“It is equally important that if that is to be the case, then we must spread evenly and equitably the resources that are needed to give all the students a level playing field because you cannot have talk about the availability of text books in Accra as against the absence of those textbooks in other areas.”

Mr. Acheampong said his association will be monitoring from the start of the 2017/2018 academic year “to find out if all the resources available to the schools in the urban areas are the same as in the rural areas.”

Credit:Citifmonline.com

Government will Protect Free SHS, NHIS, others from Collapse – Finance Minister

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The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has given assurances that government will do whatever it takes to protect its socio-economic development programs from collapse.

He said the programs including the flagship Free SHS program, National Health Insurance Scheme, Planting for Food and Jobs among others, will be provided with the needed financial resources to ensure that they achieve the desired results.

Presenting the government’s mid-year budget review to Parliament on Monday, Mr. Ofori Atta said despite the government’s plan ensure fiscal discipline and prudent spending, it is committed to growing the economy through its various social intervention projects.

“Mr. Speaker, despite the measures being taken to ensure that we maintain fiscal discipline, the government remains strongly committed to growing the economy and delivering services to our people through strategic allocation and efficient use of resources.”

“Our flagship programmes such as the Free SHS, NHIS, School Feeding, LEAP, Planting for Food and Jobs etc… will be protected,” he said.

The New Patriotic Party government secured the mandate to govern the country on the back of a number of social intervention programs including the Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs among others.

The Free SHS policy, which is expected to take off from September, will ensure government pays tuition among other fees for all students in public Senior High Schools for their three-year stay in school.

It is expected that the program will increase access to quality education and as well as reduce the rate of senior high school drop-outs due to nonpayment of fees.

The planting for food and jobs program, which was announced earlier this year by the Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Afriyie Akoto, is aimed at revolutionizing the country’s agricultural sector and creating jobs.

As part of the program, government will provide farm inputs, fertilizer, and improved seeds among other resources to boost agricultural production.

 

Credit: Citifmonline.com

Language Barrier affecting Students in the Upper West Region -Teachers

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The Teachers in the Upper West Region are facing a lot of difficulties concerning language barrier and they deem the situation as the worst of all as compare to other regions they have been.

Therefore, they wish the minister of education will intervene and implement a proper strategy to make education enjoyable by paving way to use our local dialect,because language barrier has chock the effectiveness trace of acquiring good grades in the Upper West region.

It tracks in their heart when a student don’t understand anything after a lesson. Said the teachers.

An exclusive interview with some Teachers, they confirmed to Odoom Joseph that, language barrier in the upper west region is very high in the sense that the majority of students don’t understand English language neither the Twi contrary to the teachers,so it has become a great challenge for them to teach the student to pass.

It has been the efforts of some – one or two students to interpret or translate the English language into their Local dialect before they can score a mark.

They added, the level of attendance is like a drop of water because the students prefer going to farm than schooling and sometime, during lessons their parents intrude in and ask of a child to farm because they have no insight for education.

However,the district education directors in the region are aware and ”if they permit a teach who speaks their languages to teach,the students will not be serious to learn the English language

.It was confirmed to the teachers during inspection to know their performance and attendance of students, but they have never thought of solving that problem.

Report By Joseph Odoom

Source:EducationGhana.net

Extend Number of Days for Writing BECE – Director

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The director of central international school at Adum pampamso in the Ashanti Region, Mr. God bless Amankwah said, as the education minister Hon. Mathew Opoku Prempeh perform his functions to implement new policies to reduce tensions circulating in the country after BECE and SSCE Examination results.

Therefore, he must first extend the days for about two weeks for Junior High School (JHS) students to have more days to perform and require good grades,because pressure on them is too much and even the mature students at the SHS and Universities have more days to complete their examination.

In an Exclusive interview with him, he confirm to Odoom Joseph that,the government has introduce school feeding program and other benefits for government Basic Schools.

Therefore, he urges that some of these programs should be introduced for the benefit of the private schools to enable them to enjoy the good governance of the current government because there is a proverb that says: *3nsono Abiba ba 3na 3nasono Fusena ba, 3sane S3 )mo nyinaa y3 Hausafo) Mma* he said.

Again, he said the Kumasi Kejetia Project has minimize the enrollment of students because parents have remove their wards to different schools due to kejetia project.

Story-Joseph Odoom

Source:EducationGhana.net

Trainee Teachers to Submit document for Processing of Allowances

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Trainee Teachers in the Various Colleges of Education are expected to submit document to their various Colleges to aid in the processing of their Allowances.

The category of Trainees include the Prospective Level 200 and 300 Students.

The documents include;
1. Student number
2. SSNIT number
3. E-switch number

Students are expected to submit the aforementioned documents
before the 15th of August, 2017

These requirements are to prevent impersonation by people, including foreigners, who are not qualified to benefit from the allowances.

The Mahama administration scrapped the payment of the allowances in the 2013/2014 academic year and replaced it with loans from the SLTF, arguing that it would increase enrolment in the various colleges of education and reduce the financial burden on the government.

In December last year, a Deputy Minister of Education in the erstwhile NDC government, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the abolition of the teacher trainee allowances had increased enrolment in the colleges of education by 63.8 per cent.

He explained that before then, admission to the colleges was restricted by a quota system, with the colleges admitting only 40 per cent of their capacity in view of the financial considerations.

That, according to him, prevented many prospective applicants from gaining admission to the colleges and that resulted in teacher deficit in the classrooms.

He said with the scrapping of the allowances and the quota system, enrolment into the colleges of education increased from 27,000 to 47,000 in the 38 colleges.

According to Ministry of Education statistics, considering the current enrolment figure of 47,000 in the colleges, the government would have spent GH¢282 million on allowances last year if the allowances regime had been in place, since each student received GH¢500 a year.

However, the NPP, during its 2016 election campaign, insisted that the country still needed more teachers and nurses and pledged to introduce the allowances, since they served as motivation for many to attend nursing colleges and colleges of education.

Source:EducationGhana.net

(Photos):Graduate Nursing Students Spend Their Night at MoH with Coking Utensils Waiting to be Employed

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Nursing Students from the various Nursing Training Colleges who graduated but were not being employed spent their night at the Ministry of Health.

The graduates, yesterday trooped to the Ministry of Health demanding to be employed after years of waiting to get jobs after graduating from College.

The Nursing graduates went to the Ministry of Health with their cooking utensils to feed themselves, and mats to sleep overnight.

Earlier this year,sections of the nurses who spent three days and nights at the Ministry of Health were employed and so there was an absolute possibility that these graduate nurses will also be employed.

 

Source:EducationGhana.net

WAEC Opens Short Notice Registration for Private WASSCE Candidates 2017

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The West African Examination Council has given the opportunity to Students who wishes to register for this year’s Private WASSCE.

The Examination Council has given a Short Notice Registration for the above mentioned registration from 1st August to 15th August, 2017. 

Meanwhile, there is a 100% penalty on the approved fees.Check the new fees below;

* Six or More Subjects…………. GH¢ 500.00

* Five Subjects……………………… GH¢ 476.00

* Four Subjects…………………….. GH¢ 450.00

* Three Subjects…………………… GH¢ 420.00

* Two Subjects.,…………………… GH¢ 402.00

* One Subject………………………. GH¢ 384.00

 

Fees for Oral/Practical/Project Work

Candidates who offer the above mentioned subjects are to pay an additional money to the aforementioned registration fees.

* GH¢ 68.00 Per Subject for Practical Work

* GH¢ 68.00 Per subject for Project Work

* GH¢ 48.00 Per Subject for Orals (English and French)

Candidates are reminded to kindly request the service providers to take necessary action.

Source:EducationGhana.net


Exclusive:Details of Restored Teacher Trainees Allowances “No Semester,No Allowances” -Check Here

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The most talked about teacher trainees Allowance restoration has been welcomed with different interpretations.

Meanwhile,EducationGhana’s sources have revealed detailed information regarding the restored trainees allowances.

Restoring of the allowance simply means bringing back in its equivalent what was initially scrapped by the John Mahama led government.

The amount to be taken by each trainee per month will be GH¢400.00 and this is payable for two semesters in every academic year.

  • This means that students will receive allowances for only 32 weeks per academic year.” 

This means that whiles trainees are on vacation, there would be no allowances for them to take.

The feeding grant shall be deducted from the allowance and the balance given to the trainee.

The Conference of Principals (Princof) has succeeded in convincing the Ministry of Education to increase the amount of feeding per day to GH¢6.50 and GH¢0.50 for firewood and gas making it GH¢7.00 per day.

This amount is to be deducted from the allowance from source before reaches the teacher trainee.

Every trainee is expected to present a SSNIT and e-zwich card for processing as we earlier indicated.

Source:EducationGhana.net

Notice:Teachers Posted by the GES in 2016 to Submit Payslips and Appointment Letters for an ongoing Verification Exercise

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Information reaching EducationGhana indicates that teachers who were posted by the Ghana Education Service in 2016 from the various Private and Public Colleges of Education are to submit All their PAYSLIPS from their first month of receiving salaries ,and their appointment letters to their respective District Education Offices.

The exercise is said to be an ongoing verification exercise being organized by the various regional education offices.

Teachers are to note however, that the information might not be related to all districts. They are entreated to make the necessary inquiries from their respective Circuit Supervisors to know whether their districts were part of the exercise before engaging  in the exercise.

Source:EducationGhana.net

NSS Schedules Capacity Building Workshop for Freshers

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The National Service Scheme is organizing a Capacity Building Workship for all propective personnel undergoing registration.

It is a refresher program for fresh university graduates who are waiting to commence their NSS posting.

The Capacity Building Workshop is a 2 days module, where students will learn through interactive discussions and personal reflections on how to uncover the wonderful person they are.

They will be able to identify opportunities based on their strengths and weakness.

Learn how to draw up a practical game plan for themselves.

Upon completion of the NSS Refresher Program, NSS personnel would have:

• Improved skills in transforming complex information into concise formats, including visual designs.
• Developed soft and professional skills valuable toward career employability.
• Been prepared to be global citizens dedicated to social responsibility.
• Expanded their social and professional network.
• Had the opportunity to implement theoretical knowledge in a practical and professional setting.

Participants are to take notice of the venues across the country.
WA : Monday 7th – Tuesday 8th August 2017 at New Regional Library Hall: Time 8am

BOLGATANGA: Wednesday 9th – Thursday 10th August 2017 at Social Center Hall: Time 8am

TAMALE: Thursday 10th – Friday 11th August 2017 at Center for national culture: Time 8am
SEKONDI-TAKORADI: Tuesday 15th -Wednesday 16th August 2017 at GNat Hall: Time 8am
CAPE COAST: Wednesday 16th – Thursday 17th August 2017 at Centre for National Culture (CNC): Time 8am

SUNYANI: Monday 21st – Tuesday 22nd August 2017 at Regional Gnat Hall: Time 8am
KUMASI : Tuesday 22nd -Wednesday 23rd August 2017 at Kumasi Technical Institute: Time 8am
KOFORIDUA: Thursday 24th – Friday 25th August 2017 at Center for National Culture: Time 8am
HO : Monday 28th – Tuesday 29th August 2017 at Ola Senior School, Assembly Hall: Time 8am
ACCRA: Wednesday 30th – Thursday 31st August 2017 at Burma Camp Hall: Time 8am

Personnel are entreated to make inquiries from the respective Regions.

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Nine Institutions Threaten To Withdraw Membership from GRASAG over Elections

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The controversies surrounding the 23rd Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) National Delegates Congress appear to be far from over as Presidents of nine (9) member Institutions of the Association have threatened to withdraw their membership.

The Presidents include: Mr Ato Brown from University of Ghana, Legon; Mr Abraham Poku-Adu from KNUST, Mr Mahama Alhassan from UDS, Mr Jonas Adarkwah from UMaT, Mr Samuel Nimako from Methodist University College (Organizer signed for president), Mr Isa Haki from GIJ (Gen. Sec. signed for president), Mr Stephen Osei Akyiam from UEW, Mr Louis Amankwah from Ghana Telecom University College, Mr Anthony Baidoo from UENR.

According to them, they have observed that the processes leading to the election of a new president of the association is skewed in favor of one candidate.

“We are of the considered opinion that the processes leading to the elections of our next GRASAG leaders have been painfully skewed against the expected space for a healthy competition of ideas and unionism,” the statement said.

They are calling on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the GRASAG to quickly act to rectify the abnormalities.

Failure to do so may compel them to declare as invalid the outcome of the 2017 GRASAG National elections.

“In the interim, we would be compelled by the impeachable forces of conscience to declare invalid any outcome of this very desperate mechanism to injection sectarian objectives onto our GRASAG goals,” they added.

Further the leadership of the nine local institutions vowed to form an interim management of GRASAG whiles they call for a fair and competitive congress to choose their leaders.

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Gov’t can’t Employ more Public Sector Workers – Osafo Maafo

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Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo has disclosed that government does not have the capacity to employ more public servants.

According to him, the sector is full and government might even be forced to lay off some workers if the need arises.

Speaking at the 2017 Ghana Economic Forum on Monday Mr. Maafo said “the public sector is full in terms of employment [and] we can’t employ anybody in the public sector.”

Mr. Maafo’s remark seems to be in sharp contrast to declarations by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) when they were in opposition.

The NPP heavily criticized the then Mahama government for freezing recruitment into the public sector and accusing them of covering up with the 3-year IMF agreement.

Mr. Maafo who conceded that Ghana’s economy is currently in a mess stressed that the public service was“full” and “perhaps we may have to even lay some [workers] off.”

The Senior Minister also said Ghana currently has 20 public and 75 private universities and that it will be very difficult to employ students from the tertiary institutions saying this situation could be averted “if the private sector grows, if the private sector expands, if the private sector becomes prosperous.”

He further urged industry leaders, and the business community to partner government to establish furnish tertiary institutions with state of the art laboratories to enable them to train more researches and engineers for the country adding that “if we do not get our minds set into this direction, we are heading for trouble as a country.”

The two-day event which will end on Tuesday, August 8, 2017, is themed: “Building a Ghanaian owned economy, 60 years after independence.”

Mr Maafo at the event highlighted four areas he said government was keen in developing to boost the Ghanaian economy.

These he said included improving Ghana’s micro economic stability, massive infrastructure development, accelerated industrial development and agriculture transformation.

“These four thematic areas should be able to change the complete face of our economy and I’m sure with your support – captains of industry, the banks, we should be able to accomplish this as a cooperative effort for the sake of Ghana. Let us think about future generations. This generation should lay forever a foundation that will make Ghana a centre of industry in West Africa,” he urged.

The two day event which will end on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 is themed: “Building a Ghanaian owned economy, 60 years after independence.”

Four strategies to boost Ghana’s economy

Mr. Maafo at the event highlighted four areas he said government was keen in developing to boost the Ghanaian economy.

These he said included improving Ghana’s micro economic stability, massive infrastructure development, accelerated industrial development and agriculture transformation.

“These four thematic areas should be able to change the complete face of our economy and I’m sure with your support – captains of industry, the banks, we should be able to accomplish this as a corporative effort for the sake of Ghana. Let us think about future generations. This generation should lay forever a foundation that will make Ghana a centre of industry in West Africa,” he urged.

He said Ghana could achieve the four strategies by domesticating its production and taking hold of other economies within the West African sub-region.

“What are we doing to domesticate that production? Our location even in West Africa is even central; all these should speak to us. Let us resolve to get the economy resolved once and for all. Let us remove this tag of irreversibility on our head that Ghana will do well for some time and later we reverse to the bottom then we climb again to the top that cannot do. Once we set on motion and moving we should make it impossible for any government to reverse that motion.

And that is why we are looking at the fiscal responsibility law, so you can’t come and run the deficit anyhow. There should be a law restricting you,” he added.

 

Credit: Citifmonline.com

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