EDUCATION

Four labor unions in Ghana’s public universities have given the government a week to address unresolved conditions of service, or they will go on strike on October 5. The unions, which include the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG), Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH), Ghana Association …

The Nyankyerenease M/A JHS received I.C.T. equipment from the Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Hon. Dr Kingsley Nyarko, on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. This act was inspired by his earlier visit to the school, during which the head of school pleaded with the Hon MP to outfit the ICT lab. …

Some level 400 University of Education, Winneba (UEW) students who were protesting discrepancies in their results were dispersed by police using tear gas. The students claim that the school has not updated their portal-based academic records. The students claim that the academic results that have been submitted to their portal …

In connection with the altercation at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, three further students have been detained. After the court issued a bench warrant for the arrest of more than sixty individuals in connection with the event, they were taken into custody. The three pupils, Emmanuel Appiah Amoah, …

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Ghana’s minister of education, has voiced concerns about the manner in which students are taught and learned in classrooms across the continent of Africa. He saw that students are not taught in a way that encourages critical thought and questioning. This condition, he claimed, cannot guarantee …

Georgina Asor Botchwey, a 25-year-old student nurse at Cape Coast, was allegedly murdered and secretly buried by a chief and a paster in the chief’s home in Mankessim in the Central Region. The motive behind the alleged kidnapping and murder of the nurse by the Chief, Nana Crack, who is …

Beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCO) had planned to picket at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, September 20, but the Ghana Police Service has put a stop to it. The group’s executive team revealed this. Last month, the members demonstrated in Black Star Square to pressure the government to …

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana has issued instructions to its members around the nation to finish their yearly leave and return to the classroom. On September 1, 2022, after working a year without a break, all teachers at the 46 campuses around the nation began their yearly …

Due to damage to the only two mechanized boreholes providing water to the Koforidua Secondary Technical School (SECTECH), there is currently a water shortage. The school is totally dependent on the automated boreholes after Ghana Water Company Limited weaned it off water supplies years ago because of its failure to …

The current global economic crisis has had a significant impact on the education sector, particularly the tertiary institutions, according to Pastor Professor Robert Osei-Bonsu, Chancellor of Valley View University (VVU) and President of the West Africa Division of The Seventh Day Adventist Church. He argues that switching from traditional face-to-face …