EDUCATION

Exam misconduct prevention measures have been established by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). The testing organization has implemented a number of safeguards to “ensure test security.” Head of Public Affairs of the Council Agnes Teye Cudjoe explained these measures to reporters on Monday, August 22, 2022: “These include collaboration …

Following violent altercations between students from the university’s Katanga and Unity Halls, the police have brought peace back to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology campus. “The Police are in solid control of the situation and investigation is proceeding to arrest those behind these tragic, senseless, and indefensible …

Violence-filled altercations involving students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s Katanga and Unity Halls have been denounced by the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) (KNUST). When Unity Hall students objected to University Hall students using a route in front of their hall for a parade, fights …

Cheif Executive Officer of the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF), Nana Kwaku Agyei Yeboah has revealed that some GHs15 million have been disbursed to some 12,000 Ghanaian students to aid in their education. Speaking in an interview on Otec fm’s Dwaberem political talkshow with Prince Nii Ade (Dr. Cash), Nana …

The Wassa Amenfi Paramount Chief Tetreete Okuamoah Sekyim (ii) has donated 150 dual desks to Wuratrem M/A basic school as part of his school desk supporting initiative. The Paramount Chief has the objective of supporting deprived communities with educational infrastructure and helping to restore the depleted forest in the area. …

Residents of University Hall at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) were celebrating hall week peacefully until things started to get out of hand. Some University Hall of KNUST students, often known as Katanga, reportedly made the decision to march in front of the building of their …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has come under fire from former president John Dramani Mahama for his administration’s persistent failure to examine the program’s centrepiece, free senior high schooling. Mr. Mahama claims that the politicization of education by the government and the sacrifice of quality for quantity have led to the underfeeding …

On Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the Kumasi Metropolitan Circuit Court released three Opoku Ware School (OWASS) students on bail with five sureties each after they were accused of trying to steal a car. Last Friday, August 12, 2022, when they hired the driver from the Santasi Rattray Park Danyame ridge …

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Juaben in the Ashanti Region, Mr Omane Aboagye, has encouraged students to take advantage of the ICT programme introduced by the Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation to broaden their scope of knowledge in the modern technology. He stressed the importance of Information Communication Technology …

Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Northern Region of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) have been threatened with closure for failing to pay for perishables. In a letter to the regional director of the Ghana Education Service, CHASS warned that failure to pay for perishables could …