Education
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UEW final year student dies after jubilation went wrong
A final year student of the University of Education-Winneba (UEW) Sani Majeed passed on Thursday evening while receiving treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital in Accra. Sani Majeed who finished…
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Education Ministry extends Free SHS programme to 139 Technical & Vocational Schools
The Ministry of Education has included 139 Technical and Vocational Schools into the Free Senior High School programme, in addition to the 47 already on it. This is aimed at expanding the scope of Te…
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School feeding kicks off today, as Nat’l Coordinator requests increase in grant
The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr Mrs Gertrude Quashigah, has appealed to the government to consider and approve her outfit’s request for an upward adjustment …
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Final year JAPASS female student in trauma after being assaulted by headmaster
The Jachie Pramso SHS (JAPASS) student, who was allegedly assaulted by the school’s headmaster, is traumatized as she fears the situation may affect her output in the ongoing West Africa Senior Schoo…
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Govt says it has distributed over 350,000 laptops under ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ initiative
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched and handed over 350,000 laptops under the ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ programme in fulfillment of government’s pledge to equip Ghana’s teachers with the…
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Teacher flees, student arrested by WAEC over alleged malpractice
The security operatives of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) have picked up a candidate writing the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the Dadieso Senior Hi…
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The University of Cape Coast has been named the No. 1 university in Ghana
The University of Cape Coast has been ranked Number One university in Ghana, by the 2022 Times Higher Education annual rankings. Tobe ranked in the Prestigious World University Rankings; Universities…
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Over 680 Primary and JHS students resumed school with pregnancy in Upper West Region
Upper West Region Girls Education Officer, Janet Kpan, has disclosed that a total of six hundred and eighty-seven (687) girls in the region returned to school pregnant following the closure of school…
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GES has detected alleged fraud in the ‘one teacher one laptop’ project
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has detected fraud in the one teacher one laptop project in the Ashanti Region. This according to management arose from Metropolitan Municipal and District Directors…
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School reopening expenditure sums up to ¢598m on nose masks, fumigation, sanitizer, others
The provision of nose masks, hand sanitizers and other COVID-19 preventive measures during the reopening of schools after the pandemic induced closures, came up to a total of GH¢598 million, a govern…