Public Basic Schools resume next week – Check Academic Calendar and Week endings
Public Basic Schools in Ghana are expected to resume next week ,Tuesday, September 12,2017 to begin the 2017/18 academic year. The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the academic calendar for...
View ArticleFree SHS policy is a hoax – Haruna Iddrisu
The Minority Leader of Ghana’s Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described as a “hoax” the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) much touted free Senior High School policy which is to be fully rolled out...
View ArticleGhana’s Elite Schools at Risk with the Implementation of Free SHS – Kofi Bentil
Policy analyst and Vice President of Imani Centre for Policy and Education says the country is putting its elite schools at risk with the implementation of Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Kofi...
View ArticleStudents to get a minimum of GH¢2000 Loans- SLTF
The Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) has increased the amount given each student as loan every academic year to a minimum of GH¢2,000 and GH¢3,000, maximum, beginning this academic year. In 2016, the...
View ArticleWe’ve been excluded from Free SHS Implementation – GNAT
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) General Secretary, David Ofori Acheampong, has revealed the teacher union was not part of the national committee overseeing the implementation of the...
View ArticleYEA to begin Shortlisting of 60,000 Beneficiaries from September 11
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) will from Monday, September 11,begin the shortlisting of about 60,000 beneficiaries. The Youth Employment Agency in a Statement, created the awareness of all...
View ArticleFirst Deputy Speaker educates students on democracy
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei Owusu, yesterday hosted the Students’ Parliament Council (SPC) of the Accra Technical University (ATU) at the Parliament House in an interactive...
View ArticleNursing and Midwifery Licensing Exams to be Conducted online Starting 2018
Licencing examination of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana will from July next year be conducted online. The new online system, according to the Council, is to ease the laborious processes...
View ArticleFraudsters charging monies to place Students in Senior High Schools
Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Cassandra Twum Ampofo is cautioning parents to be wary of fraudsters who are charging monies to get unplaced students...
View ArticleFree SHS Admissions:Headmaster turns Parents,wards away over Birth Certificates
The headmaster of Ghanata Senior High School at Dodowa in the Eastern Region HSS reputedly turned away some parents with their wards on day one of admissions for form one students. According to...
View ArticleSHS Admissions:Headmaster rejects Wooden Chop box over Trunks (Metallic...
The Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) in Koforidua has rejected wooden Chop box brought to the school by some beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School on Monday. The school says it will only...
View ArticleCourt orders YEA to reinstate 300 sacked workers
Court has quashed a directive given to some 300 staff of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to proceed on leave. Although the presiding judge acknowledged that management had the right to give the...
View ArticlePresident Akuffo Addo to Launch Free SHS on Tuesday at WASS
The President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency,Akuffo Addo will on Tuesday launch his Free SHS Policy at the West African Senior Hugh School Campus in Accra. The President will launch the...
View ArticleFree SHS Fever hits Mzbel at Achimota Senior High School
Mzbel, who was an ardent critic of the New Patriotic Party and then-presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo during the 2016 campaigns, visited the Achimota School in Accra to register her son to enable...
View ArticleTeacher group commends Akuffo Addo on Free SHS Implementation
A teacher group calling itself Progressive Teachers and Youth Alliance (PROTOYA) has commended government on its successful implementation of the infamous Free Senior High School Policy. According to...
View ArticleJust In: Posting of Newly Trained Teachers likely to take effect in October
Teacher Trainees all over the country are likely to be posted to the various public basic schools in Late September to Early October. According to credible information reaching EducationGhana ,there...
View ArticleSources of Funding for Free SHS to be indicated in 2018 budget – Deputy Edu....
The deputy Education Minister in charge of secondary says the sources of funding for government’s free senior high school (SHS) policy will be captured in the 2018 budget. Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum told...
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GES summons Some SHS Headmasters for allegedly Charging unapproved fees
The Education Ministry has summoned some heads of senior high school over claims they are charging fees exempted under the free SHS policy. Former Director of Education at the Ghana Education Service...
View ArticleStudent who borrowed Library book returned it after 36 years
An overdue book was returned to a library in Scotland nearly four decades after it was initially checked out. Shetland library shared a photo of the book that was borrowed on Oct. 10, 1981, 36 years...
View ArticleMinority questions Akuffo Addo’s supposed Free SHS Manifesto Promise
The Minority in Parliament says the current state of the free senior high school (SHS) programme being rolled out was not the one government promised the citizens last year. The opposition lawmakers...
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