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Global aid to education in 2017 has slightly fallen. In 2017, aid to education totaled US$ 13.2 billion, down 2% or US$288 million compared to 2016. The figures, released by the Global Education Monitoring Report, published by UNESCO, show the levels of aid to education continue to stagnate, growing by only 1% per year on average since 2009. Much of ...

A DEPUTY Minister for Education in charge of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gifty Twum Ampofo, has declared that government will not relent on its efforts to provide free skill, technical and vocational training to its teeming youth for it is the surest way of guaranteeing them jobs. Mrs Ampofo noted that the Council for Technical Vocational Education and ...

Students benefiting from the Free Senior High School policy of the government have been asked to vindicate the policy. They were advised not to take the opportunity for granted, but study hard to produce outstanding academic results. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave the advise when he made a brief stop at the Ntruboman Senior High School at Breweniase in ...

Some 1,300 students of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration who stand the risk of deferring their programs over their inability to pay their fees on time have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to intervene to enable their management reconsider their stands. According to the students, their inability to pay the fees on time were mostly due to reasons beyond ...

A three-day simulation exercise on new standard-based curriculum for the training of kindergarten and primary school teachers has ended in Accra. It was organised by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA). The exercise afforded stakeholders and curriculum practitioners to test the various tools and training modules ahead of the nationwide training of ...

The Supreme Court (SC), yesterday, gave the Attorney-General (A-G) three weeks to file legal argument to justify the appointment of Alamisi Burns Kaizer Martin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor (SP). The court also gave counsel for Dr Dominic Akurutinga Ayine, the plaintiff, three weeks to make legal arguments to justify the contention over the appointment of Mr Amidu to the ...

The University of Cape Coast Junior High School (JHS) has emerged winner of the third edition of the National Core Subjects Quiz (NCSQ) held in Accra. The tension-packed grand finale saw University JHS put up an incredible performance against their counterparts from the Central Region, Greenfield Schools to walk away with the ultimate prize. At the end of a grueling ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr has bemoaned the attitude of government spokespersons who speak on every issue that comes up even if they are not supposed to interfere. The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper does not understand why some government Communicators are speaking to the closure of two radio stations in Accra; adding, when this is done, it gives the impression, ...

Passengers of the evening shuttle train between Accra and Tema had a scare of their lives when the train started receding at Airport halt after alighting some passengers Tuesday evening. According to a passenger, the train which had near 150 passengers, was receding at a fast speed and the handlers appeared to have lost control of the coach. “The train ...

Police in Tamale have arrested two more trucks carrying containers of rosewood lumbers. The trucks are currently detained at the regional police headquarters after they were intercepted coming from Tumu, in the upper west region. Police, for now, are tight-lipped over the arrest, but promise to brief the media on Wednesday, May 15. However, Starr News sources have said the ...