Education

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, has announced that the Ghana School Feeding Programme now reaches over 4.527 million schoolchildren daily, disclosing that government has fully cleared all outstanding caterer arrears from 2024 and settled payments for the first and second terms of the 2025-2026 academic year. […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on President John Dramani Mahama to either apologise to Ghanaians or dismiss Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu over the controversy surrounding the reported introduction of Arabic and Chinese into Ghana’s school curriculum. In a statement issued by its Education Sector Policy Committee, the NPP said the […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has outlined a long term plan to end the recurring pressure on the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), with infrastructure expansion at its core. He announced the plan during a courtesy visit to the CSSPS Centre at the GNAT Hall in Accra, where students and parents […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION A Member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah, has argued that abolishing Ghana’s Double-Track system is not the solution to the challenges facing Senior High School, SHS, education. Speaking on the ‘Headlines’ segment of the GTV Breakfast Show, Mr. Jantuah said the system was introduced in 2018 as an emergency […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Daniel Fenyi, has dismissed suggestions of systemic failure in this year’s school placement exercise, explaining that the majority of concerns raised at resolution centres stemmed from individual subjective preferences rather than actual flaws within the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). Speaking […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IES), Dr Peter Anti Partey Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IES), Dr Peter Anti Partey, has identified communication gaps and the historical over-concentration of resources on a small number of schools as fundamental drivers of Ghana’s recurring school placement crisis, calling […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION Executive Director of Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has rejected calls to scrap the categorisation system in senior high schools, arguing that removing the system without improving infrastructure would not resolve placement challenges. Mr Asare explained that some Category C schools struggle to attract students because of inadequate infrastructure, teaching resources and other […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION There’s visible frustration at the GNAT Hall in Accra as the resolution of challenges with the CSSPS enters its third day, with anxious parents and candidates continuing to throng the Greater Accra Placement Resolution Centre in search of solutions to their placement challenges. Some frustrated parents spent the night at the facility […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum Aformer Education Minister, Honourable Yaw Osei Adutwum has proposed a transcript system that could help reduce the large number of students who fail core subjects in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Honourable Adutwum, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, explained […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Former Education Minister, Honourable Yaw Osei Adutwum says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) introduced the self-placement system to help students find schools when their preferred choices did not match available vacancies. Honourable Adutwum, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, noted that the system was designed to prevent students from being automatically […]