Education
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WAEC students to write ‘Country Specific Exams’ due to pandemic
Candidates for this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSEC) will write ‘Country Specific Examinations’ due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The WASSCE is expected to commence …
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Govt to expand universities to enable more SHS intake
Plans are underway to address the infrastructural challenges in the various universities across the country to build their capacity to increase their intake. The move was in anticipation of more stud…
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E-university; ‘Obokese University of Excellence’ launched, starts 21 September
A maiden virtual educational institution “Obokese University of Excellence” has been launched at the weekend via zoom by Nana Obokese Ampah, the Founder of the University. The University to begin on …
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NaCCA releases second batch of kindergarten, basic school textbooks
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has published the second batch of the official list of textbooks recommended for kindergarten to basic Schools. A total of 96 publications c…
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Virtual teaching is the way to go – Educationist insists
Ms Eunice Araba Turkson, an education consultant in the United States, has called on Ghanaian authorities to begin looking into virtual teaching for effective education of children. She said innovati…
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Govt should replace textbooks with tablets
Group CEO of Databank Ghana LTD, Mr Kojo Addae-Mensah has called on the government to consider supplying each school going child with a wireless internet device (tablets) to use for their various stu…
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Too early to reopen schools -CHOPPS
The Conference of Heads of Private 2nd Cycle Schools (CHOPPS) has described as premature for the country to return to full school activity. According to the body made up of proprietors of private sen…
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Private school teachers join in kicking against reopening of schools
A group calling itself Private School Teachers Association of Ghana has joined the move by the four recognized teacher unions to kick against the reopening of schools by the Ghana Education Service (…
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School must stay closed – Teachers Union insist
The Pre-Tertiary Educational Teacher Unions in Ghana are advocating for schools to remain closed even if the ban on social gathering is lifted. The unions in a letter addressed to the Director-Genera…
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Supreme Court annuls UEW Pro-VC election
Until his election, Professor Ofori-Binkorang was the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Communications. When Prof Ofori-Binkorang was appointed for elections, a lecturer of the UEW,…