Author Archives: Admissionsgh

Is homos3xuality alien, or not, to Africa?

Feature Article of Monday, 20 July 2015 Columnist: Patrick Ayumu 2015-07-20 Opinion A recent ruling declaring same-s3x marriage as a constitutional right in the whole of the United States, on June 27, 2015, by the US Supreme Court, has resurrected, again, for the umpteenth time in Africa, the debate over the African-ness, or otherwise, of… Read More »

No chalk in public schools

Feature Article of Monday, 20 July 2015 Columnist: Ben Sackey Enoch 2015-07-20 Opinion In an attempt by the Ghana Education Service to defend the indefensible, the institution has rather justified the inadequacy of chalk by its mention of the provision of some chalks to schools in the Eastern region since March this year by government.… Read More »

How Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley answer union's questions about education – The …

 Hillary Rodham Clinton AFT: Today, almost 50 million students attend our nation’s public schools. Along with their parents, communities, teachers, paraprofessionals and other school employees, these students have been forced to live under test-and-punish policies that include sanctions and school closings, high-stakes assessments, and federalized teacher evaluations that are counterproductive and have taken the joy… Read More »

The Dismantling of Higher Education | Al Jazeera America

This lack of solidarity among tenured professors with their more precariously employed peers is one of the starkest similarities between the situation in Europe and the United States. (The situation in the developing world, with even fewer resources for higher education, is even more precarious.) Even at my home university, the University of California, allegedly… Read More »

Is For-Profit the Future of Education in Brazil? | TechCrunch

Brazilian startup Descomplica (“Uncomplicate”) has raised an $8 million Series B to build an education entertainment company that the company hopes could actually change the future of education in Brazil. Descomplica is already known as a test prep platform for Brazil’s standardized college entrance exam tests, delivering a library of 15,000 videos, and eight hours of live-streamed content… Read More »

Invest more in Girl-child education

Regional News of Sunday, 19 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-19 Participants at a round table organized by Action Aid Ghana (AAG), a development charity have called for increased investment in Girl-child education to curb poverty and female vulnerability in Ghana. According to them, the benefits of educating a girl include higher savings and disposable incomes… Read More »