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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Parents of students of Aburi Girls’ Senior High School are least enthused about a decision taken by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to interdict the headmistress, Alice Prempeh-Fordjour. The parents and guardians have, therefore, started agitations to get Mrs Prempeh-Fordjour reinstated as they consider the decision rash and uninformed. According to reports, the interdicted headmistress was charging […]
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A forty-year old teacher in the Upper Manya Krobo District has been given notice to go on compulsory retirement before his retirement age is due. Isaac Kwabla Tettey, has been teaching for the past 20 years. He was posted to the Sutapong near sekesua upper manya krobo in the eastern region 10 years ago. He was one […]
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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 Ghana Education Service (GES), says the pre-tertiary teacher unions have no basis to embark on industrial action. The unions, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) are unhappy over what they claim are inadequate teaching and learning resources, contact and […]
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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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