Education

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Ghana Education Service (GES) has issued an urgent warning to teacher recruitment applicants following reports that scammers are calling successful candidates and demanding money in exchange for keeping their approved status, cautioning the public that no such payment can alter the outcome of the official recruitment exercise. Daniel Fenyi, Head of […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Coalition of Unemployed Trained Teachers has raised sharp concerns over the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Ghana Education Service (GES), alleging that the process lacks transparency and calling on the Service to return to the traditional annual batch recruitment system for graduates of the Colleges of Education. In a statement addressed to […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Government has committed GHS50 million in the 2027 GETFund budget to support the operationalization of the newly commissioned University of Mines and Technology (UMAT) campus at Kenyasi Number 2, with the Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, announcing that the funding would go toward an administration block and a dormitory to ensure […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has directed universities, colleges and other tertiary institutions across the country to stop making entrance examinations a compulsory requirement for admission. The Commission says admissions must be guided by approved minimum entry requirements, with West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results serving as the main […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION In a bid to encourage young people to adopt the principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3Rs) as practical steps towards building a cleaner environment and a more sustainable future, the Korea Alumni Association of Ghana (KAAG), in partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has organised an environmental awareness and […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION A bill to establish a National Defence University for the Ghana Armed Forces has been passed by Parliament and is awaiting presidential assent. Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu made the statement during the Government Accountability Series in Accra on Monday,cJuly, 20, 2026. He described it as a long-held aspiration of the Ghana Armed Forces. […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION A bill to establish a National Defence University for the Ghana Armed Forces has been passed by Parliament and is awaiting presidential assent. Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu made the statement during the Government Accountability Series in Accra on Monday,cJuly, 20, 2026. He described it as a long-held aspiration of the Ghana Armed Forces. […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The National Coordinator of the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), Mrs. Bernice Ampere Gyekye, has called on Ghanaian parents to make indigenous languages the primary means of communication at home, warning that the country’s linguistic heritage is gradually disappearing because many families now prioritise English over their mother tongues. According to […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed the temporary closure of all public and private schools within the Yendi Municipality to allow students, teachers and staff to observe the funeral rites of the late Overlord of the Dagbon Kingdom, Yaa-Naa Abukari II. In a statement issued on Tuesday, July 14, the GES […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Former Director-General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Prof. Edward Appiah, has called on the government and educational institutions to decolonise Ghana’s curriculum, arguing that the country’s education system must be restructured to produce a generation capable of competing globally. According to him, Africa’s education system was designed during […]