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Brazil's Rousseff announces more education spending cuts

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO Brazil announced another cut to education spending on Thursday, the latest step back from President Dilma Rousseff’s pledge to turn the Latin American giant into an “education nation” in her second term. Brazil will reduce the amount it spends on education by 1 billion reais ($296.7 million) this year as part of a… Read More: Brazil's Rousseff announces more education spending cuts »

Free education: Capitation grant is failing – Report

About 85% of all households who have children in public pre-schools still pay some form of levies and charges. This is according to the 2014 Citizens’ Assessment Survey on the capitation grant scheme. This is regardless of the introduction of capitation grants to eliminate these charges and levies. Under the scheme, public basic schools in Ghana… Read More: Free education: Capitation grant is failing – Report »

University of Ghana Launches 13 New Readers

Hon. Justice Dr. Samuel Kofi Date-Bah, Chairman of the University Council cutting a tape to launch the Readers 13 new University of Ghana Readers have been launched by the Chairman of the University Council, Hon. Justice Dr. Samuel Kofi Date-Bah at a ceremony held at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana. The Readers… Read More: University of Ghana Launches 13 New Readers »

UG Holds July 2015 Congregation Ceremonies

Chancellor, H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan congratulating a PhD graduand The University of Ghana has held the 2015 July Congregation ceremonies for students who recently completed various programmes of study at the University. The graduates are made up of 960 from the College of Basic and Applied Science (CBAS), 1402 from the College of Education (CoE),… Read More: UG Holds July 2015 Congregation Ceremonies »

VC Tours Climate Change Centre and PhD Building Sites

Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aryeetey being shown the Climate Change building plan The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has visited the construction sites for the Climate Change Centre and a PhD building to check on progress of the two building projects. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of Research, Innovation and Development, Prof. John Owusu Gyapong and the Director of… Read More: VC Tours Climate Change Centre and PhD Building Sites »

WACCI Vision 2028 Workshop Ends

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana has held a three-day workshop from July 14 -16, 2015 at the Volta Hotel, Akosombo on the theme “Transforming WACCI into a sustainable Centre of Excellence for Training Plant Breeders and Seed Scientists for the future of food security in Africa”.  The workshop brought… Read More: WACCI Vision 2028 Workshop Ends »

Henry Nkosuo Boakye emerged as the new president of USAG

The annual general congress of the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) was brought to a close with an election of new leaders to steer the affair of the association over the next academic year. This year’s congress was held on the premises of Cape Coast University. Delegates from all the universities across the country… Read More: Henry Nkosuo Boakye emerged as the new president of USAG »

My A-Z of Campus Life by Business Accounting graduate – Stanley Toddison

Saturday 25th July 2015 was my graduation and I have tried to summarise my four years in alphabetical order. You may take a cue from it. Stanley Toddison Yesterday 25th of July 2015 was my graduation and I have tried to summarise my four years in alphabetical order. You may take a cue from it.… Read More: My A-Z of Campus Life by Business Accounting graduate –… »

Dennis Danso Kumi- The best graduating student of UG

Dr Dennis Danso Kumi is one of the valedictorians of the July 2015 congregation of the University of Ghana. He is graduating Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the School of Medicine and Dentistry with a final grade point average of 4.0 making him the best graduating student of the University of Ghana.… Read More: Dennis Danso Kumi- The best graduating student of UG »