The government’s newest alternative offer to include pension funds in the current debt restructuring has been rejected by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). According to the administration, the move to include pension funds in the program aims to both properly compensate the pension funds for the value of …
Read More »UCC Senior Staff Association embark on indefinite strike
The University of Cape Coast’s senior personnel have started an indefinite strike because their agreed allowances, conditions of employment, and promotions are taking too long to be implemented. The University of Cape Coast’s local chapter of the Senior Staff Association of the Universities of Ghana reports that its members are …
Read More »PAC begins public hearing in Tamale
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has started meeting in Tamale to discuss the Auditor General’s Report on Technical Universities for the year ended December 31, 2020, as well as the Reports on the Management and Utilization of District Assemblies’ Common Fund and Other Statutory Funds for the same …
Read More »Free SHS students to go on Easter break
The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has informed heads of senior high schools using the transitional calendar that first-year pupils are to continue their holiday until June 2023. In order to enable a smooth academic year, it has advised Regional Directors to instruct heads of second-cycle schools in …
Read More »VP Bawumia commissions multi-purpose technology hub in Akim Oda
At the Eastern Region’s Akim Oda, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated an ultra-modern technological hub. The facility includes an ICT Center, a Robotics Center, and a well-stocked library. Vice President Bawumia remarked during the commissioning that the facility’s creation was intended to support people’s educational growth for the …
Read More »Let’s have a national discussion on the Free SHS programme – John Mahama
“I suggested that we have a national discussion on the Free SHS programme where various stakeholders and experts will share ideas about how to improve on the programme, but the Akufo-Addo government declined and we are all witnesses to what our students are going through at the Senior High Schools” …
Read More »“Ghana needs test mechanism to determine who can pay and who cannot pay SHS fees” -Haruna Iddrisu
“Ghana needs a test mechanism to determine who can pay and who cannot pay. This political thing of wanting to please everybody at the detriment of quality will hang in this country in the next decade if we don’t look back,” Haruna Iddrisu said. In the next ten years, if …
Read More »Otumfour commissions new Police Station at KNUST
As part of celebrations for the 56th Congregation of the institution, His Royal Highness Otumfour Osei Tutu II the Asantehene officially opened the Jericho Wall Police Station at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) yesterday, March 17, 2023. The police station, which is meant to assist the …
Read More »NUGS petition Parliament over capping GETfund
In opposition to proposals to cap the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has submitted a petition to Parliament. Before submitting the petition to the House’s Education Committee, the petitioners—led by NUGS President Mr. Dennis Appiah Larbi Ampofo protested with signs in front of …
Read More »C/R: 15-year old school girl killed by assailants
After a 15-year-old school girl was killed by unidentified assailants in the Assin South District of the Central Region, residents of Nsane near Ayaase have been left in dismay and dread. The deceased, Priscila Ataa Botwey alias Atta Kakra, was discovered laying supine in a thicket outside of the town, …
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