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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 …

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 …

Government is being asked to extend the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) support to private universities in Ghana to reduce the burden of running the institutions. The GETFund is a public trust set up by an Act of Parliament in the year 2000 to provide funding to supplement government effort …

The Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has descended heavily on his predecessor Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang describing her as an “embarrassment” and one who didn’t understand education. “Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment,” Dr. Opoku Prempeh told Kwadwo Asare-Baffuor Acheampong popularly known as KABA on Asempa …

The implementation of free senior high school policy is being impeded by inadequate classroom block and accommodation at Vitting SHS and Kalipohini SHS, both in the Northern Region. First-year students of the two schools – beneficiaries of the free education policy – sleep in the open or under trees, exposing …

Teachers at Ghana’s colleges of education have begun a nationwide strike to protest unpaid salaries spanning 12 months. Early on, the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) threatened to embark on the strike if the government failed to pay salary arrears owed its members since October 2016. According to …

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), has declared a nationwide strike in protest of unpaid salaries . The teachers had threatened to down their tools if the government failed to pay salary arrears owed its members since October 2016. We are disapointed H.Bani said on Radio1 Morning Show …

With the world being made more compact by technology, the desperation of some students on government scholarships worldwide is being given a regular voice and wider reach. Their dire situation is seemingly compounded by a sense of neglect they feel for what they describe as their humanitarian crisis after being …

J Initiative, a child and family focused organization in Ghana, is urging the government to include the provision of sanitary towels in the list of items under the free senior school policy to ensure that girls do not miss out on the policy. According to the organization, the onset of …

Scores of students who lined the Bolgatanga-Navrongo Highway Wednesday to usher in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s two-day working tour of the Upper East region were dealt a heavy disappointment as their great expectations— a direct interaction with the President, for the first time since a regime change 10 months …