The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed assertions that Ghana’s education system is still using colonial structures. The President of the Innovative Teachers, Stephen Desu, on Citi FM’s The Big Issue over the weekend criticized Ghana’s educational system saying, the academic structure and curriculum used by basic schools were colonial. “This educational system is colonial… Read More »
Immediate change is needed at all levels to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in research universities, according to a paper on undergraduate STEM learning and teaching co-authored by Zachary Schultz, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, that appears in a special July issue… Read More »
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), has indicated that that government risks ‘destroying education’ in the country by taking up the responsibilities of parents. NAGRAT Vice President, Angel Karbonu was of the view that the educational sector will suffer great harm if the government fails to fulfill the responsibilities it has taken up. He… Read More »
If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected. The former business secretary Vince Cable said that when looking for departmental savings in 2014 his civil servants asked him: “Why don’t you just effectively kill… Read More »
I’ve been around in this industry long enough to observe plenty of interesting trends. And one of the most important trends of this decade if not earlier has been how cybersecurity has gone mainstream. As well as regularly featuring in top tier media (no longer languishing just in tiny tech sections toward the back of… Read More »
It has been widely reported that U.S. employers have a hard time finding skilled talent to fill critical jobs. Rapid developments in digital technology, as well as innovations in science and engineering, have created a gap between need and availability of the skills required across these industries. Though not limited to any specific age group,… Read More »
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet pushed through the biggest tax increases in almost half a century to raise teachers’ wages and eliminate education fees. Many students could be forgiven for wishing she had never bothered. Bachelet’s vision of lifting Chile toward developed-nation status through improved education has collided with the interests of the teachers’ union, mirroring… Read More »
The Volta Regional Minister, Helen Adjoa Ntoso, says government’s efforts at providing library facilities for community schools and students are meant to improve education in the country. Madam Ntoso said this in a speech at Nkonya-Tepo in the Biakoye District of the Volta Region during the inauguration of a community library for local primary and… Read More »
Ghana will soon boast of an ultra-modern sports and education facility for the physically challenged. The 11-million cedi project is to be sited on a 40 acre land provided by the chiefs and people of Dominase in the Central Region. A fundraising for six million cedis for the construction of the initial physical facilities has… Read More »
DEVELOPMENT | July 18, 2015, 10:37 a.m. By Nana Appiah Acquaye, Accra, Ghana Tigo Ghana has unveiled its new flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme dubbed Shelter 4 Education with a donation of a brand new six unit classroom school to the chief and people of Obeng Yaw village, a farming community situated in the… Read More »