Only one-third of applicants who applied to enter the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology for the 2009-2010 academic year were offered admission due to inadequate lecturers and facilities.
Authorities are worried about the situation but say the trend is likely to continue for some time as funds are not in sight to help reverse [...]

Accra, June 14, GNA – Mr. Alex Tettey Enyo, Minister of Education at the weekend noted that the hostility children afflicted by mental illnesses suffer from their parents and other relatives is due to ignorance and superstition.
He said these unfortunate children were often marginalised, stigmatised and neglected by society. Mr. Tettey Enyo made the observation [...]

Accra, April 23, GNA – The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Wednesday tasked the Ghanaian media to devote daily space and airtime for civic education to ensure that citizens were alive to their rights and responsibilities. “The steady democratic development in the country demands an equally active citizen’s participation and act of responsiveness [...]

Child Rights International is heading to the courts to compel the West African examination Council (WAEC) to organize exams for the 106 students who missed this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).The organization is also suing the Ghana Education Service (GES) for negligence. Child Rights International says the negligence of the GES has denied the [...]

Some 2,714 educational institutions have for the past 10 years benefited from Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Educational Fund set up to complement government’s educational development effort, Dr Thomas Agyarko-Poku, Executive Director of the Fund, told newsmen at a press soiree in Accra Wednesday.
Over GH¢90,000 was spent to improve infrastructure in first and second cycle institutions [...]

Ghanaian tertiary students have been urged to take advantage of programmes that would make them competitive in the global market.
Mr. Winfred Kwamivi of the Leicester University, UK, who gave the advice on Monday said: “Today’s global business environment is more competitive, complex, dynamic and ever-increasing than it has been in decades. Change is occurring simultaneously [...]

Mr Moses Asaga, Member of Parliament for Nabdam, has urged university authorities to upgrade their courses in Chemistry for students to gain from its many industrial-related job opportunities.
He said courses such as Industrial and Petrol Chemistry, Chemicals Marketing and Production Management, should be considered as electives in the curricula.
Mr Asaga was speaking on the topic, [...]

A retired educationist, Mrs Georgina Asamoah, has appealed to government to review its decision to dissolve Boards of Directors of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes.
She noted that membership of the boards comprised representatives of the health directorate, assemblies, Department of Social Welfare, traditional councils, civil societies, churches and Islamic religious organizations.
Mrs Asamoah, [...]

Nkawkaw (E/R), Feb. 21, GNA – Mr Godwin Sowah, President of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), has urged the government not to allow progressive forces of the developed world to influence the nation’s education policy.
He said due to the influence of those forces, it had been difficult to maintain a single focus [...]

Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education has directed authorities of University of Development Studies (UDS) to stay further action on the intended closure of the Wa Campus.
He has also directed the students to resume lectures on Thursday, February 19, in a statement issued in Accra and signed by Mr Ato Essuman, Chief Director at the [...]