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Gov’t Raises Free SHS Budget; Spends GHS453m This Year
The government will spend GHS453 million ($103m) of the country’s oil revenue to fund the free senior high school programme this year.
The amount is more than twice the figure it spent on the programme, one of its major flagships, last…
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NaBCo Will Restore the Self-Esteem of Graduates – Akufo-Addo
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged unemployed graduates to sign up to the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) programme to assist with the public sector service delivery in the country.
According to him, the programme, aside…
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Panelists Call for Inter-University Partnerships on Research
Panellist at recent forum have called on private universities to consider partnering among themselves undertake research work that would have the potential to transform the economy of the country.
The panellists, were Professor Ernest…
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Minister Rejects Claim About Collapsing Private Schools
The Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has dismissed claims that the fee-free senior high school (SHS) policy has become a veritable threat to private schools, saying, that is not supported by the facts on the ground.
The…
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Court Fines 11 WASSCE Impersonators Ghc1,200 Each
The Akim Oda District Magistrate Court in the Eastern Region presided over by His Worship Akwasi Apeatse Abaidoo has convicted eleven(11) students made up of nine (9) students from University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast,…
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Innovate to Keep Schools Running – Education Minister to Private SHSs
The Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asked private second cycle schools to open up to competition and stop blaming the Free Senior High School policy for their woes.
He argues that “in the public-private primary school…
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E/R: Hunger Looms As Rains Destroy Food Items At Achiase SHS
There is a looming hunger at Achiase Senior High School as most food items supplied to the School have been destroyed by a rainstorm Saturday.
The storm ripped off the roof of the school’s storeroom, dining hall and the Computer…
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NAB Directs Technical Universities to Withdraw Unqualified Students
An audit conducted by the National Accreditation Board (NAB) has revealed that many students of the technical universities do not have the necessary qualification to study at the tertiary level.
The NAB has, therefore, written to the…
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UNICEF Executive Director Commends President Akufo-Addo for Free SHS
The Executive Director of the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Mrs. Henrietta Holsman Fore, has commended the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the decision taken in September 2017 to…
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Forum Held to Encourage Inclusiveness in Education
Students at a day’s forum dubbed: Using children’s literature to foster inclusivity in Basic School,” have called on Ghanaians to eschew the perception that disability is a societal threat.
They indicated that children with disabilities…
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