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Ministry rubbishes reports on double-track cancellation

The Ministry of Education has dismissed media reports that it has cancelled the double track policy in some schools in the Northern Region due to poor infrastructure. The Ministry has in a statement said that the reports are false and should be disregarded. “The Ministry wishes to state that these …

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Why Suspend The ‘Poor’ Headmaster? – Mahama Shocked At Tempane SHS Saga

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed shock over the suspension of the headmaster of Tempane Senior High School, describing the Akufo-Addo government as highly intolerant. The Upper East Regional Education Directorate suspended the headmaster, pending investigations, after accusing him of allowing Mr Joshua Akamba, a National Organizer hopeful of …

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Agogo State SHS Closed Down After Students Rioting

The Agogo State SHS has been closed down indefinitely following students rioting on Sunday night. The students embarked on a demonstration and vandalised school property running into thousands of Ghana cedis. The stone-throwing students embarked on the destructive demonstration at the school’s premises at about 10:30 pm Graphic Online has …

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Government Not Abolishing Single-Sex School – Education Ministry

Government has rubbished reports that it is planning to abolish single-sex education system in Ghana. According to the Ministry of Education, such reports are false. “…This statement is false and must be treated with the contempt it deserves,” a statement from the Education Ministry stated. There were media reports citing …

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Double Track: Several Students Turned Away At NOBISCO

Several students who trooped to the Northern Business School in Tamale in the Northern Region to register for the SHS double track system have been turned away by authorities of the school. According to Starr FM’s Northern regional correspondent, Eliasu Tanko, the students being turned away are those who did …

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We’re Ready For Double Track System – CHASS

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), has indicated its preparedness ahead of the implementation of the newly introduced double track system. The new system, which begins on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, is expected to create space to accommodate more students due to an increase in enrollment. It …

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GES Trains Maths, Science And ICT Teachers

The Ghana Education Service (GES), with the support of the World Bank and the Ministry of Education, have organised a five-day workshop for mathematics, science, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teachers selected from some Senior High Schools in the country. Opening the workshop, the Deputy Minister of Education (in …

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2018 SHS Choices Of BECE Candidates Released

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has completed and placed all the candidates who passed their 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations, into the various senior high schools, technical and vocational institutes for the 2018/2019 academic year. Results of the 509,827 candidates who sat for the exams were released by the West …

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196.38 million of Ghana’s oil money was spent on free SHS in 2017

Government spent 8.66 million cedis of an estimated 700 million cedis of the Annual Budgetary Allocation from oil proceeds on health in 2017. Similarly, about 49.07 million cedis representing 3 per cent of the total allocation was spent on agriculture. Education received 202.38 million cedis representing 61 percent. These were …

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Teachers beg for help over death trap school buildings

Across the Central region, many children still study in dilapidated school building over a year since after one such structure collapsed and kindergarten children died at Breman Jamera Basic School. According to Joy News’ Richard Kwadwo Nyarko, the current state of school structures are scarier than the one at Breman …

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