The National Council of PTAs says it has sent a team to Senior High Schools to verify claims of lack of food in some second cycle institutions in the country. PRO of the Council, Felicity Ahafianyo, said they have so far not received any complaints from members on the shortage of food in schools. She […]
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The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), says it is worried over the lack of food in Senior High schools across the country. The Association has called for the situation to be resolved by September 1, 2021, to avoid the possibility of a nationwide strike. General Secretary of GNAT, Thomas Musah, speaking to GBC NEWS […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has detected fraud in the one teacher one laptop project in the Ashanti Region. This according to management arose from Metropolitan Municipal and District Directors of Education submitting names of persons who do not qualify to benefit from the project. These persons include non-teaching staff, retired or separated staff. Some, according to the GES […]
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Norsaac, a civil society organisation, has been commended for partnering with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to train some teachers in the Northern and North East Regions to effectively deliver Reproductive Health Education (RHE) to students. Mr Abdulai Abdul Salam, School Health Education Programme Coordinator at the Zabzugu District Education Directorate, and Mr Mohammed Yazidu, […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has deferred the implementation of the Common Core Programme (CCP), the new curriculum developed for the junior high school. The new curriculum would rather be implemented next academic year, after enough sensitisation, the GES stated, and therefore requested teachers to continue to use the old curriculum to teach. Training The […]
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The Teachers’ and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has given a two-week ultimatum to the government to address the Union’s condition of service to aid teaching and learning in the public Universities. The Union is calling on the government to respond promptly to the concerns of TEWU in the Public Universities to avoid any further disruption […]
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Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, the Deputy Minister of Education, on Wednesday launched this year’s Ghana Teacher Prize (GTP) with a call on stakeholders to deepen the relationship and prioritize the welfare of teachers. Rev Fordjour stated that the Teacher Prize scheme underscored the importance of the teaching profession and signified the high recognition of teachers […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has distributed over 446,954 remedial materials to final year senior high schools (SHS), libraries and teachers in preparedness for this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates. The remedial materials contain packs of past questions from 2015 to 2020 and a guide on how to answer […]
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The National Schools Inspectorate Authority says it is negotiating with the Ministry of Education to begin posting trained teachers to private schools in the country. The move is also to supply private schools with government textbooks as it’s done in public schools.According to the Authority, the effort is aimed at ensuring equity, fairness and quality […]
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The University of Ghana Branch Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Prof. Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo says teachers have been cheated for too long and it is a discomfort he wants an end to. According to him he wants Ghana’s constitution to recognize the hard work of teachers just as “Article 71 […]
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