Education
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Furious JHS student, 15 others pounce on teacher over homework
A final year student of the Nungua Kroma Two Junior High School (JHS) in Accra, together with 15 other men, on Monday, February 22, assaulted a teacher for punishing him over failure to do his homewo…
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Schools receive over 500 desks from GHS and District Assembly
The Ghana Education Service and the Ada West District Assembly have distributed 550 desks to needy schools in the district. The GES donated 190 desks while the Ada West District Assembly added 360 de…
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Bono’s Wenchi Municipality observes drastic fall in female education as many dropout
The Wenchi Municipality Council in Bono, Ghana recorded a higher dropout rate at the end of December 2020. This was revealed by the Wenchi City Health Bureau in a media briefing at the end of the ann…
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Akufo-Addo’s free SHS program has sparked increase in SHS enrollment in Ashanti Region
The Ghana Education Service (GES) stated that the number of female students enrolled in high schools in Ashanti has increased significantly in the past four years. Ms. Mary Owusu Afriyie, Regional Ed…
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2020/21 SHS placement: GES to launch call centres for redress
Ghana Education Service says that it is preparing to release the computerized school placement for the 2020/2021 academic year. This was indicated in a statement signed by the Head of the Public Rela…
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Allow students to wear short skirts, ‘crazy’ jeans, solve real problems – Prof Kwaku Asare
A US-based Law Professor, Kwaku Asare has called on University authorities to focus on solving society’s problems and not on the dressing of University ladies. A Ghanaian public University, the Unive…
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Ghana Public University bans short skirts, ‘crazy’ jeans, others
A Ghanaian public University, the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has issued stern directives to female students against “showing skins” by wearing dresses on campus that the Vice-Ch…
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GES Director-General confirms that SHS placement list will be out Sunday
Barring any last-minute hitches, this year’s schools placement will be out on Sunday, February 21, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has hinted…
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Teachers must impose face mask wearing on pupils – MCE
Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has called on teachers to inculcate facemask wearing in pupils while ensuring they comply with the other protocols to curb the s…
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GES orders suspension of Independence Day school parade
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed all schools in Ghana to halt the celebration of this year’s 6th March parade across the country. The directive follows a press release from the GES on M…