The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch Kofi Asare says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s claim that JHS students are complaining of hunger at their schools as a result COVID-19 measures is not backed by the facts on the grounds. According to him, the decision of the President to provide one hot meal for students is not a prudent use of the country’s …
Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide has dismissed claims that President Akufo-Addo’s decision to provide one hot meal for JHS students is tokenism. It comes after education centred NGO Africa Education Watch described the decision by the president as waste of public resources. “No one has told us that they are hungry; nobody has complained. We have been around the country, nobody …
Beginning from the 2019/2020 academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) will roll out a new educational curriculum that will focus on the total development of the child and not be examination-focused, to discourage learning by rote, also known as ‘chew, pour, pass and forget. The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Dr Prince Armah, …
A lecturer with Planning Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Stephen Takyi has suggested that not every Junior High School (JHS) graduate shoul be allowed to benefit from the government’s flagship program, free Senior High School (SHS). “Children whose parents honour their tax obligation to the government must be allowed to enjoy free education”, …
MTN Heroes of Change 2019 will this week feature David Hagan, a young man who lost his dad but hustled his way through school and despite having nothing, he still works to support those that need the most. When you lose your dad right after JHS and things deteriorate so fast what do you do? Most people will give up …
The Suhum Municipal Court presided over by Ms Rhoda Donkor has fined a notorious criminal, Frank Oppong, 20, an amount of GhC1,200.00 or in default serve 12 months in prison in hard labour for stealing. Oppong was accused of conniving with two juveniles, of 16 and 17 years of age to steal. The two juveniles who are students of a …
Theodosia Jackson, the Principal of Jackson College of Education has advised this year’s Basic Education Certificate candidates to refrain from any form of examination malpractice to avoid cancellation of papers. The veteran educationists further admonished them to aim at earning their certificates honestly and on merit. She gave the advice at a press briefing in Kumasi to exhort the candidates …
