EDUCATION

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 …

A national STEM project competition called “STEMNNOVATION” has been announced by Mr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the minister of education. The competition aims to test and unlock the creative potential of the existing Free Senior High School (SHS) program participants. In senior high technical schools (SHTS), technical & vocational education & …

On Tuesday, the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) released a total of eleven loans totaling Ghc11.2 million to students enrolled in higher institutions across the nation. The money that has been released to various beneficiaries’ accounts will benefit 10,000 students from 182 educational institutions around the nation. This payment marks …

The running of several unaccredited programs since 2021 has prompted the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, to seek an urgent meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology (KNUST). The sector minister requested the urgent meeting in order to address the operation …

Three universities and colleges in the nation have received Presidential Charters from President Nana Akufo-Addo, bringing the total number of private universities to get them to six during the Akufo-Addo government. The Catholic University College, Methodist University College, and Presbyterian University College are the most recent university colleges to meet …

In 2021, more than 600 academic programs at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Ghana were not recognized. The schools’ accreditation “expired or required re-accreditation during the time under evaluation,” according to the Auditor-report General’s for 2021. According to the report, 374 of …