Education

There is a scramble across the country over senior high school placement as more than 36,000 Junior High School (JHS) graduates compete for limited space. At least 36,849 JHS graduates who took part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) missed placement to available SHSs. The Ghana Education Service …

A group calling itself the Concerned LLB Graduates, has run to court to seek an interlocutory injunction to stop the upcoming entrance examination and interview session for potential students seeking enrollment into the Ghana Law School. The General Legal Council (GLC) has vowed to organize the exams on July 14, …

I would like to use this platform to congratulate all my brothers and sisters who have successfully completed their first degree in all corners of the nation and are awaiting their national service. The journey has not been easy because, I charted a similar path in 2010 and graciously completed …

Basic schools in Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region have been closed down following the killing of a soldier in the town by a mob. Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah reports that residents fleeing the town left with their children. All two junior high schools and three primary schools in the community …

The World Bank Public Sector Expenditure Review (PER) has shown that the high wage bill in the education sector, which has left little for capital investment, has serious implications for the quality of education in Ghana. According to the PER report, the overall budget execution rate rose from 114.8 percent …