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“‘Slutty, slaggy’ girls need David Cameron to sort s3x education. Fast.” Thus reads the Telegraph’s headline to a serious piece by Green party MP Caroline Lucas, calling for education on s3x and relationships to be made compulsory in schools. You could be forgiven for thinking that the problem is that girls really are “sluts” and “slags”, in need of… Read More »

The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has launched its research and briefing papers on ‘Social Accountability in Education’ at a ceremony held in Accra. The reports include State of Infrastructure in Ghanaian Schools, Gender and School Infrastructure, Disability and Infrastructure, Satisfaction with Education Service Delivery, Gaps in Public Basic Education Services, and Citizens’ Experience… Read More »

Regional News of Friday, 17 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-17 Prophetess Elizabeth Quayeba Abredu, in-charge of the “Promiseland Prayer Camp” of the Christ Apostolic Church in the Suhum Municipality, has noted that education must equip a person to effectively participate in development activities. Prophetess Quayeba Abredu said this when addressing teachers, parents and pupils from… Read More »

Educating prisoners can turn them into “contributors to society”, Mr Gove said Education in prisons must be overhauled to reduce re-offending and make prisoners more employable, the justice secretary has said. Michael Gove suggested “earned release” for inmates in England and Wales who work hard and gain qualifications. Prison officers said they had heard similar… Read More »

WASHINGTON—For the first time in 14 years, both chambers of Congress have backed sweeping changes to federal education law, but stark differences between the House and Senate bills portend difficult negotiations to produce final legislation replacing the Bush-era “No Child Left Behind.” The Senate on Thursday voted 81-17 to pass a bill rewriting the 2001… Read More »

If Work Stops Values Decay Our economy is supported by small businesses. While there are different ways of measuring this, in general we accept that small businesses make up 99.7% of U.S. employer firms, create 63% of net new private-sector jobs, and provide 48.5% of private-sector employment. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses was designed by Babson… Read More »

Rev Bettey said the provision of good quality education is a collective effort of pupils, parents, teachers and other stakeholders play

With the now-thankfully-defeated Murphy Amendment, Senate Democrats gave a giant middle finger to public education and a bathtub full of cold water in the face to those who keep thinking that maybe the Democrats in general and Progressives in particular are going to be our allies in our struggle to preserve the promise of public… Read More »

Cape Coast, July 16, GNA – Plans are far advanced for Government to turn five Private Colleges of Education (CoE) in the country into public institutions. This is in line with its pledge to expand access to CoEs to increase teacher supply to basic schools.  Speaking at the inauguration of a 1,600-seating capacity auditorium for… Read More »