The Ministry of Education is set to reduce the number of Junior High Schools in Ghana from 13,000 to 2500 after re-engineering the country’s a educational system to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The new system will be called the Junior Senior High School. Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum explained that “We […]
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Government plans to pilot a six-year secondary education system beginning in 2023. “In 2023 when we open those schools, you are going to see how we are going to see six years [of] quality secondary education,” the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said to the press on Tuesday. This system will be piloted at […]
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Education Minister, Dr Yaw Adutwum has been summoned before Parliament over government’s ‘1 Teacher, 1 Laptop’ policy, which has triggered division and agitation amongst teacher unions. Deputy Ranking on the Education Committee, Dr Clement Apaak, who has filed a question for the minister to answer, alleges the selection process in the award of the contract […]
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The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says government intends to institute measures to reduce the elective subjects of Junior High School students who cannot read or write. The intervention, he explained, is aimed at ensuring that students at Junior High Schools are able to, at least, read and write by the time they complete […]
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