Pushing bilingual education Ms. Ama Atta Sagoe, Proprietress of Ecole Francaise, is hoping to persuade Ghanaian parents that bilingually educated children will be at a significant advantage moving forward. Sagoe argues that knowing an additional language will be quite beneficial as the Ghana becomes more globally integrated. Given Ghana’s geographic proximity to francophone nations such[…]

MoE inaugurates technical universities On Monday the Ministry of Education (MoE) held an official inauguration ceremony for eight technical universities—Accra Technical University, Koforidua Technical University, Sunyani, Technical University, Cape Coast Technical University, Takoradi Technical University, Kumasi Technical University, and Tamale Technical University. The MoE ceremony makes good on a declaration made by President John Mahama[…]

So, we don’t have class? On November 25th, the Ghana Education Service (GES) made it quite clear that December 7th would not be a public holiday. “It is to be noted that Wednesday, 7th December, 2016 is not a holiday, therefore all teachers, students and educational workers are supposed to be at post after voting,”[…]

Clamping down on fake teachers  Seth Terkper, Minister of Finance, revealed that the government has recently deleted nearly 4000 fake  teachers from the government’s payroll system. Terkper credited the ability to cleanse the system to  measures such as electronic verification. Terkper stated that those who are found guilty of creating  fraudulent accounts “will face the[…]

Uninspiring report The 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report has revealed that there is much room for improvement in Ghana’s education system. The report stated that just 53 percent of Ghanaian students are able to complete Junior High School (JHS), and only 39 percent are capable of completing Senior High School (SHS). The report was[…]

Arabic to be made compulsory Starting next fall, Arabic will become a compulsory subject for SHS students. President Mahama’s Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, announced the change at a campaign event with the Muslim Community of Nsawam Zongo. Debrah briefly explained: “from 2017 Senior High School students will study Arabic like they do in the[…]

Online initiative brings in some big names The Vodafone Foundation has announced an initiative to provide people in Ghana, the DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Tanzania with access to free online learning materials. The “Instant Classroom” project is being crafted with help from Learning Equality and Khan Academy, who are collaborating to develop the online[…]

More than a meme 4 year-old Jake Amo of Koforidua has taken the meme-world by storm after a picture of him went viral. And that’s pretty cool—even if Jake is unaware of it. The picture achieved fame shortly after being posted to Solomon Adufah’s Instagram account. Adufah, a native Ghanaian who’d been living in the[…]

NDC plans for next term… The NDC released its Election 2016 Manifesto, chock full of statements about what the NDC plans to do if reelected in December. The Party pledged to establish new Colleges of Education in the Greater Accra, Central, and Northern Regions. Additionally, the NDC claims it would complete the conversion of ten[…]

Do less Former Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah, advised a trimming of the educational curriculum. “Why should children at a tender age be made to write exams in nine subjects?” He said that by trying to do too much, the quality of the education suffers. Nsowah admitted that it’s[…]