June 18, 2020 The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched the Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP). The initiative is to help drive standards and quality in some ten thousand low-performing basic schools across the country. Launching the Project on Thursday, 18th June 2020, at Jubilee House, …
Read More »“I Am Sorry” – NAPO Apologizes To Basic School Teachers
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah NAPO Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, said his comments suggesting diploma holders attended colleges with worst grades were misconstrued. In parts of a video which had already gone viral on social media, Dr Prempeh is seen purportedly describing diploma teachers as having attended colleges with the …
Read More »BOMBSHELL: Several Police recruits cannot read and write basic English – Report
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah It has emerged that some recruits of the Ghana Police Service cannot read, write and understand the official English Language even to the point of resorting to the archaic way of thumb printing documents instead of penning their signatures. “It is so sad to find men …
Read More »Basic school leavers top 2018 list of convicts in Ghana
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File photo: Gavel Basic school leavers have topped the list of persons jailed in various prison facilities in the country for 2018, according to the Prisons Service’s annual report. The report shows that out of the 9,034 persons who were convicted last year, a whopping 5,888 had …
Read More »Video+Photos: Snakes takeover Agona Nyarkrom Basic School
By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Pupils of the Agona Nyarkrom Roman Catholic Junior High School A&B in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region have threatened to boycott school as snakes have taken over the school. According to the children, they no longer feel safe studying in the school which …
Read More »Arabic not part of basic school curriculum — GES
By;brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ghana Education Service (GES) has stated that it has no intention of introducing Arabic in primary school. It explained that the subjects to be studied in literacy component under the curriculum review for primary six were English Language, Ghanaian language (s) and French. “As a matter …
Read More »Free Basic Education not free…As heads charge gateman fee, other illegal fees
A Corruption Watch (CW) investigation into the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) in five regions of the country has found that public basic schools are not free as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution. CW found in the five regions: Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, Ashanti and Upper East – that, …
Read More »JUST IN:152,000 Public Basic School Teachers to begin Training on New Standard Based Curriculum August 6
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah About 152,000 Teachers at the public basic schools across the country shall begin a compulsory workshop on the implementation of the New Curriculum for Basic Schools. The New Curriculum is expected to be implemented in September 2019 to begin the 2019/20 Academic year. The workshop …
Read More »Keta municipal basic schools to “STILL ” write exams on the chalkboard
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Basic Schools in the Keta, Ketu South and the Anloga Municipalities/Districts shall write their Third Term Examinations on chalkboards. This is a directive from the Municipal Director of Education after headteachers allegedly betrayed the municipality by charging higher examination fees last term. This information was …
Read More »Find out why Achimota Basic School head fears her pupils could be kidnapped
By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The headmistress is appealing for support for a wall to protect the pupils The headmistress of Achimota Basic School, Edith Kyeremateng has disclosed that thieves, encroachers and mentally deranged men have taken over the school due to the absence of a protective school wall. According …
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