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How to Parent: A Department of Education Guide – The Daily Signal

A few years ago, the Obama administration caught backlash after the Department of Education released suggested lesson plans to schools in conjunction with a national back-to-school address that the president was delivering on Sept. 8, 2009. But federally directed lesson plans are so 2009. On Friday the Department of Education released a “checklist” designed to “help… Read More »

Builsa South Assembly committed to improving education

Regional News of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-18 The Builsa South Assembly is committed to improving the enrollment and standard of performance of both teachers and pupils of basic schools in the district. Madam Elizabeth Jane Afiuc, the District Chief Executive, said this on Friday when she presented some educational materials to the… Read More »

Smriti Irani, RSS bodies discuss new education policy, prospective …

NEW DELHI: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today held deliberations with some RSS-affiliated education bodies on the new education policy during which they are understood to have also discussed the appointments of possible candidates in various institutes and varsities in the country. Sources said during the deliberations, RSS functionaries are understood to have put forth… Read More »

KNUST Inaugurates Campus France Kumasi Office

As part of the third Ghana-France Higher Education Conference and following the efforts of both countries to cooperate in the field of higher education, Maison Francaise of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the French Embassy has inaugurated the Campus France Kumasi Office. Paulo Pais, Director, Institut Francais du Ghana and… Read More »

GT Bank Supports University Security Services

The Guarantee Trust (GT) Bank Ghana Limited has donated ten (10) Apsonic Yoboro motorbikes valued at GHC45,000 cedis to the University Security Services of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The donation, according to Lekan Sanusi, the Managing Director, forms part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility. Mr. Sanusi stated that GT Bank’s… Read More »

Department of Clinical Microbiology Holds Training Workshop on Molecular Biology

The Department of Clinical Microbiology in the School of Medical Sciences, KNUST has organized a training workshop on Molecular Biology for staff and postgraduate students of the College of Health Sciences. The Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Award Scheme funded the workshop. The Africa Award Scheme is designed to develop collaborative research projects between scientists based in… Read More »

College of Science Holds 1ST Graduation Ceremony for Laboratory Technicians

The College of Science of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has graduated a total of twenty (20) laboratory technicians who undertook the Laboratory Technician’s Training Programme at the College. The Laboratory Technician’s Training Programme, designed in October, 2011 has the objective of building capacity for senior staff. Abdul Rashid Muhammed, Obtained distinction… Read More »