St. Peter’s SHS launches first AI lab on campus

St. Peter’s Senior High School, Nkwatia, in the Eastern Region has made history by being the first public Senior High School in the country to have an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab deployed on its campus. On Saturday 29th April 2023, a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab was launched by Coral Reef Innovation Hub. This lab […]

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Kpando SHS is best school at 2023 STMIE camp

The Kpando SHS emerged as the overall best school out of 245 participating SHS schools at this year’s Science, Technology, Mathematics and Innovation Education (STMIE) Camp in Saltpond which climaxed at the Mfantsiman Girls SHS in the Central Region on Friday 24th February 2023. The 5-day event put students into different classes for project-based activity […]

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Nonperforming Schools don’t need closing down, resign if you can’t do the job – Mahama to Adutwum

Former President John Dramani Mahama has told the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum not to close down nonperforming schools. He says the schools should rather be supported with teaching and learning materials to improve on their performance. Addressing branch executives of NDC earlier on Sunday, March 19, at Adudwama in the Ahafo Ano South […]

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SHS students attack teachers, vandalise school property over poor WASCCE results, 40 arrested

About 40 students of Krobea Asante Technical and Vocational School at Asante Asokore in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region have been arrest by police.The students according to report were arrested after they vandalized school properties over poor results recorded by their predecessors. The assembly member for Effiduase South Electoral Area who doubles […]

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Change method of training teachers – Peter Anti

The Executive Secretary of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST – Ghana) Peter Partey Anti has said students in Ghana seem not assertive because their teachers are also not bold. He explained that in the event that teachers attempt to be assertive, they end up being victimized. His comments come at a time the Minister of Education, […]

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Free SHS under review to determine how much parents can pay – Prof Opoku Amankwah

Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, says a review of the Free Senior High School Policy is underway. This exercise, he reveals is geared at determining which of the cost components government can relinquish to parents to pay. “…we can do the analysis and then come up and say that, […]

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Free NTC online workshop for 8 CPD points

The National Teaching Council NTC, in partnership with WORLDREADER is organising a free online workshop for all teachers nationwide. WORLDREADER is an NTC accredited service provider that trains teachers on literacy (Digital reading) and classroom management skills. Worldreader is organising an online literacy training for Basic school teachers for 8 credit points. Worldreader is an […]

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Teacher unions declare strike over COLA

Four teacher unions have declared an indefinite nationwide strike – effective Monday, July 4 – over demands for the payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). The unions, comprising the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of […]

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Teacher trainees to feed themselves after May 8 – PRINCOF

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed that teacher trainees start to fund their own feeding from May 8. This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them. According to PRINCOF, food suppliers who had continued […]

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Teachers to pay 10% of their salaries for occupying govt bungalows

The Ghana Education Service has reminded all teachers and non-teaching staff of the service who are occupying a school or a government bungalow that they are by law required to pay 10% of their basic salaries as rent. In a letter dated 11th March 2022, the GES indicated that the directive is in line with […]

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