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Government is finalising steps to start the double-track or semester system to boost enrollment under its flagship free Senior High School (SHS) education programme. Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, made the revelation at a sensitisation programme organised for education directors of, heads of senior high school and public relation officers in the education sector on Saturday, July 21. What ...

Scores of customers of trouble-hit financial institution Midland Savings and Loans Company have besieged the premises of the Shiashie branch of the firm to withdraw their monies. The development comes on the back of the assault of a customer by a police officer who was on duty at the facility last week. Lance Corporal Godzi Frederick Amanor brutishly assaulted the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named the boss of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) as the new chairperson of the Electoral Commission. Mrs. Jean Adukwei Mensa is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), and Co-ordinator of the Ghana Political Parties Programme. She is a lawyer by profession, and has carved a niche for ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe says the recommendation for double intake within the various senior high schools known as multi-track system will promote “deviancy.” “I do not necessarily buy the idea of multi-track system. That encourages some deviancy along the way,” he said. There’re reports that government has agreed to implement proposals for a “multi-track calendar ...

Ghana is one of 12 countries participating in a summit dubbed “Global Disability Summit” – a ground breaking event to transform the lives of persons with disabilities in developing countries. The Summit which opens on Monday July 23 in London, UK, will cover a range of different issues relating to the inclusion of people with disabilities. Ghana’s Minister of Gender, ...

A 65-year-old retired Soldier in Koforidua, Kwaku Ohenebeng, has developed a multi-purpose high decibel personal Safety siren to help fight criminal activities. He said the potable Sirens could be used by communities, families, companies, institutions and more importantly, teenagers  to protect themselves from sexual predators. According to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service, over ...

Veteran educationist, Professor Stephen Adei has lauded the multi–track system expected to be introduced into the Senior High School system in September. The Dean of Arts and Sciences at Ashesi University said there is overcrowding in most of the High Schools and the proposed system is a very laudable one which will help to cure the issue. “When I heard ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said from September 2018, Government will implement the double intake system for new entrants into the country’s public Senior High Schools, which will address the growing numbers of students benefitting from the Free SHS policy. According to President Akufo-Addo, the 2018/2019 academic year will see a 31% increase in the population of new students ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central constituency, Kennedy Agyapong, is expected to reappear before Parliament’s Privileges Committee today over his purported contemptuous utterances against the House. This will be the committee’s second public hearing on the alleged contemnor’s case. The first hearing ended inconclusively after some members of the committee recused themselves for reasons of possible bias. The three ...

Five members of staff of the Midland Savings and Loans Company who witnessed the assault of a customer of the company at one of its branches by a policeman, Frederick Amanor, have been suspended pending investigations into the matter. Their suspension follows what the management of the company described as their “failure” to handle the situation in the manner they ...