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COVID-19 numbers in schools nothing serious – GES Boss
Contrary to the overwhelming concerns raised by anxious parents over the poor handling of COVID-19 cases and their accompanying measures in schools across the country, Deputy Director-General for the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr…
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GES satisfied with successful voter registration in Senior High Schools
Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has expressed gratitude to stakeholders for successfully organising voter registration exercise in the various second cycle institutions.
The Electoral Commission (EC) organised the…
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World Vision advocates for improved sanitation and hygiene in schools
A non-governmental organization, World Vision is asking students in both basic and high schools to strictly adhere to laid down hygiene protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in their schools.
This follows the recording of COVID-19…
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It’s nonsense to say schools were reopened to win NPP votes – Information Minister
“What makes nonsense of that argument is that the people who are, for example, going to basic school (final year students) are about 750,000, are they going to vote? The basic schools, are they also going to vote?”
Words of the Minister…
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Government Did Students, Parents Wrong By Reopening Schools
Fellow Ghanaians,
I submit that government did students and parents palpable wrong by recalling the children from home to school in these Covid times.
And many such avoidable wrongs in our fragile national response to Covid-19 have…
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Shutdown of schools inevitable if ‘chaotic incidences’ continue – GNECC warns
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) expects Senior High Schools to shut down if recent health-related incidents continue.
In a statement, the group warned that if “the unfortunate happenings continue the close down of…
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Ghanaian students to write 2020 WASSCE despite COVID-19 concerns – GES
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service has dismissed calls for the government to close down schools and cancel this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) for final year Senior High…
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KNUST SHS headmistress interdicted after death of student
The headmistress of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Senior High School (KNUST SHS) has been interdicted after the death of a student at her school on Tuesday evening.
This comes after male student of the school was…
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KNUST SHS Student dies after neglect over COVID-19 fears
A final year business student of KNUST Senior High School has died of ulcer over teachers negligence due to the fears of contracting COVID-19.
According to the video circulating online, the teachers and school authorities left the boy…
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684 persons exposed to Accra Girls’ COVID
A man covers his face with his t-shirt as he waits to receive goods from volunteers during food and water distribution to the underprivileged and homeless, as Ghana enforces a partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi in efforts to slow the…
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