NSS challenges NDC on cancellation of trainee teachers’ enrollment onto scheme

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has reiterated the need to enrol newly trained tertiary-level teachers on the scheme as it challenges the NDC over its cancellation plans. Read: Leakage of 2020 WASSCE science question on social media is fake – WAEC The secretariat believes it is an opportunity being offered to the graduates to undertake … Read more

55 test positive for Covid-19 at Accra Girls’ SHS – Govt

A total of 55 persons at the Accra Girls’ Senior High School (SHS), including students and members of staff, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. According to a joint statement issued by Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Education Service, this was revealed after “containment measures” were put in place following the confirmation of … Read more

GES Sets Out Requirements For Recruiting New Teachers Into The Service

GES Sets Out Requirements For Recruiting New Teachers Into The Service

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has set requirement guidelines to recruit qualified newly trained teachers for the 2019/2020 academic year. Per the guidelines, candidates who wish to be considered for employment as teachers under the GES should have completed and passed the final-year College of Education Examination. READ ALSO:The Policeman ‘Killed’ My Mother – Cop … Read more

Breaking: Teachers With Sandwich Or Distance Degrees To Be Withdrawn From SHS

Teachers who obtained their Degrees from Sandwich and Distance Education are to be sacked from the Public Senior High Schools,the Ghana Education  Service (GES)  has directed. A directive from the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service to all Regional Directors of Education to be communicated to such teachers indicated. In a letter sighted by EducationGhana.net ,dated … Read more

Rwanda offers aspiring teachers free university education

In an attempt to encourage young people to opt for teaching as a career, the Rwandan government has announced that it will drop university fees for those who want to study education. It will also cut secondary school fees by half for students who say they hope to become teachers. The Rwanda Education Board (REB) … Read more

Over 400k teachers to be sacked

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GHNACOPS) has warned that over 400,000 untrained teachers are set to be laid off come September 2019, if government insists on the teacher licensing. Government last year through the Ghana Education Service (GES) introduced compulsory teacher Licencing Exams. The move, according to the GES, was part of the … Read more

Central Tongu DCE cries over teachers “addiction” to Sports betting

District Chief Executive for Central Tongu Thomas Moore Zonyrah has bemoan what he says is the increasing numbers of teachers dedicating time that is supposed to be spent with students to sports betting. The phenomenon according to him was affecting contact hours and hence impacting standard of education in the district negatively. The Central Tongu … Read more