Tag Archives: Ghana Education News

Policy makers need to take factors like geography, available skills and knowledge and the networks of local companies into account to boost the impact of higher education on economic development, according to a new Atlas Award-winning paper published in the International Journal of Educational Development. The authors of the study, from the University of Nottingham,… Read More: Geography, skills, local companies affect higher education impact on economic… »

It may seem late in the day, but now that the principle of paying £9,000 a year for university seems to have been established, questions are being asked about what students get for it. The argument has long been made that they get a good job: figures from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills… Read More: Universities say no to new ranking »

Blackboard Inc, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Blackboard’s majority owner, private equity firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, has hired Deutsche Bank… Read More: Exclusive: Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale – sources »

Former First Lady and President of the 31st December Women’s Movement (DWM), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and TV Personality and Education Specialist, Peace Hyde, recently attended the graduation ceremony at the 31st December Women’s Movement early development school in Teshie Nungua.  The event marked the culmination of 23 years of pre school education set up by the DWM… Read More: Child education: Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings & Peace Hyde launch… »

Ironically, the report by the LSE also said that “parental attendance at a private or grammar school” had a significant impact on a child’s destiny over and above the influence of academic attainment. Would those be the same grammar schools that offered bright poor kids a chance to acquire serious learning and “polish”, but which… Read More: Why a belief in education is all but extinct among… »

DEVELOPMENT | July 28, 2015, 7:55 a.m. By Nana Appiah Acquaye, Obuasi- Ashanti Region One of Ghana’s foremost mining towns, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, leads in the production of gold in the country; but little can be said about its educational fortunes especially with the quality of its infrastructures. St Joseph R/C Primary School… Read More: Obuasi MCE salutes Tigo Ghana Shelter 4 Education Initiative »

Rajya Sabha Member and former Union Minister Karan Singh has said that a value orientation was missing in the current education system as a consequence of constant neglect of the great thoughts in every religious system practised in India and those that represented a wholesome philosophy. “Science is a blessing but one should have the… Read More: Value orientation missing in education system: Karan Singh »

The report says that ‘mortgage deed in the name of the Governor was not furnished by 14 employees for the period May 1, 2011, to March 30, 2012, by 28 employees in 2012-13 and 21 employees in 2013-14. On the one hand when there are no hostels set up by the Higher Education Department for… Read More: Education dept advances several crores to staff 'without documents' »

ALBANY – Three groups pushing education reforms that spent heavily lobbying state government this year funded at least a portion of their efforts though donations whose original sources are essentially untraceable. Those question marks remain despite a 2011 ethics reform law meant to illuminate the sources of funding behind major lobbying efforts. Gaps in the… Read More: Education lobbyists' backers stay in the shadows »

Citizens of Logba resident in Accra and Tema have launched an education fund to support brilliant but needy students in the Logba traditional area in the Afadjato South District of the Volta region. The fund known as the Akpana Education Fund seeks to mobilise resources to help selected pupils of Logba to pursue secondary education.… Read More: Logba citizens mobilise to set up education fund »