EDUCATION

Mr Matthew Boadu Adjei, founder of Oasis Capital Ghana Limited, has advised graduates of the University of Ghana, Legon, to be confident, and avoid procrastinating their goals. He said this on Friday at the graduation ceremony of the…
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Notwithstanding the barrage of infrastructural challenges, apprehensions and frustrations that characterised the implementation of Government's free Senior High School (SHS) policy, the story has been that of joy and excitements for traders…
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A schoolgirl is in tears at Paga, Ghana’s border town near Burkina Faso, after her parents pulled the curtain down on her education too soon and asked her to prepare for marriage. Kawala Hawa Kabiru, 18, got placement with aggregate 33…
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The former Finance Minister Seth Terkper, has described the free SHS policy as a lifelong commitment to Ghanaians which may be unsustainable. His comments come after the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta on Wednesday announced government’s…
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Former Deputy Minister of Information, James Agyenim-Boateng, has said the Akufo-Addo government adopted a populist approach towards the free Senior High School programme, hence the introduction of the Voluntary Education Fund.The…
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The government plans to allocate some GH¢1.2 billion to the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme in 2018. The amount is three times higher than the GH¢400 million that was allocated to the programme in its first…
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President Akufo-Addo has charged managers of Private Tertiary Institutions to prepare themselves to absorb free Senior High School graduates in 2020. According to the President, Public Tertiary Institutions will not able to admit all the…
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REPORTS OF cases of theft are on the increase on the campus of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS) at Tafo, a suburb of Kumasi. Some unknown hoodlums, who operate daily in the school, are said to be stealing valuable items of both…
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Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has said the Akufo-Addo administration is not interested in building universities simply for votes or as a mode of thanking supportive constituencies. “Let me…
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The government will be bearing the cost of the registration fees for candidates in public schools who will be writing the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). A statement dated 6 November 217, issued by the West African…
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