EDUCATION

After a number of staff members and students were taken into custody, chaos broke out at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region. The cars of certain school administrators were among the items damaged by the pupils.To keep the pupils under control, police were called to the school. …

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, has reassured teachers who haven’t received pay in the last seven months that the government will pay any arrears owed to them. Due to delays in completing their biometric registration, which would allow them to obtain their staff identity numbers, some instructors have …

According to the government, it has released GH57,460,000 as student grants and allowances to colleges of education across the nation. “The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Education, has made available GH57,460.000.00 to the 46 Colleges of Education in Ghana to pay food grants and student allowance. The Ministry …

After several weeks of a food crisis, the majority of state-owned senior high schools now have supplies, according to Education Minister Yaw Osei Adutwum. In response to inquiries from the House of Representatives, he acknowledged that the government owes the National Food Buffer Stock Company over GHC340 million, which causes …

The senior staff association-Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) has declared that its three-week strike in protest of its demand for a 20 percent cost-of-living allowance will be put to an end (COLA). The group has also been claiming, among other things, how the government’s failure to pay Tier 2 pension arrears …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has stressed that the government has no plans to revisit the Free Senior High School program in response to rumors that it may. On July 25, 2022, Mr. Ofori-Atta underlined the government’s interest in human capital development when delivering the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement …

All co-curricular activities that senior high schools engage in outside of their campuses are to be temporarily suspended, according to a directive from the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS). Due to insufficient funding, the decision was made at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for the third …

The Ministry of Education has denied reports that the Free Senior High School initiative, the Akufo-Addo administration’s signature program, is being reviewed. In an interview with Joy News, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwabena Opoku Amankwah, stated that a review is happening to determine which …

The West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), which will be administered from August 1 to September 27, 2022, will only accept applications from Ghanaians going forward. This is due to the fact that the other four West African Examinations Council (WAEC) members, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The …

According to the Ministry of Education, the federal government owes more than GHC 340 million to Buffer Stock Company’s suppliers. This information was provided by Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, in response to inquiries from Dr. Clement Apaak, Member of Parliament for Builsa South, in Parliament. The Minister …