Agya Koo says the newly implemented free SHS policy by the NPP government might just tempt him to go to school to get that education that he never really got the first time.
The actor, a noted NPP supporter, said the newly implemented policy would give the opportunity for up and coming young people to get the educational opportunities that was not available some years back to people like himself.
The Ghana Education Service have announced the placement of students who wrote this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into numerous Senior High Schools across the country.
A statement released by the Service and dated 31st August, 2017, reveals that 92% of students who took the exams qualified to be placed into SHS across the country.
The results of the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has been released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and students of one particular school are smiling all the way home.
All final year students of Pure City International School managed to pass the exam with distinction, the results show.
After immense criticism over the decision to appoint US based Abraham Attah as the ambassador for free SHS when he was not even utilising the program, government came out to declare that Abraham Attah actually volunteered for the role.
The young actor has now cleared the air on the issue and corroborated that he volunteered for the role just as the education minister said.
WAEC has revealed a number of people have returned their certificates to them after becoming ‘born again’.
Dozens of people returned their certificates for exams written up to as long as decades ago which they cheated in.
The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has defended the decision to name Abraham Attah as government’s ambassador for Free SHS on the grounds that it’s not a paid gig.
According to the Minister, Attah himself volunteered for the job, which he’s undertaking at no cost to the government and people of Ghana.
We guess it was inevitable that the most popular tv show in the country would end up as an exam material.
A few years ago, President Akufo-Addo’s ‘all die be die’ gaffe made an appearance in exams and now ‘Kumkum Bhagya’ has followed.
General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito, has presented a newly constructed, 4-unit two bedroom teachers quarters to the Nkoranman Senior High School at Seikwa in the Brong Ahafo region.
The project, worth Ghc 400,000, was a pledge by Mosquito for the school he helped found back when he was an assemblyman, and years later it has finally been completed.
The most patronised National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) final in years came to a sore end as the Quiz Misteress’ handbag was stolen in the chaos of the winner’s celebrations.
Prempeh College fought off a spirited fight from St Thomas Aquinas to pick up the winner’s medal, with defending champions Adisadel College coming in at a distant third.
As we reported Wednesday, seven students of the Damongo SHS in the Northern Region were expelled by the school for allegedly indulging in hot s*x in a rented apartment off campus.
However, the students have denied they were engaging in any s*xual activities, instead claiming they were only sleeping in the room where they were found and had taken off their clothes because the place was too hot.
Seven students of the Damongo Senior High School in the Northern Region have been sacked from the school after they were caught engaging in s*xual shenanigans on the Islamic Eid holiday.
The students allegedly hired their own hostel close to the school were they occasionally go to relax and have fun, but they were finally grabbed early Tuesday after a tip-off.
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has slammed the decision by government to name the US based Abraham Attah as its ambassador for the free shs policy.
Acting national secretary of the body, Malik Basintale, said the appointment of a US based actor, bypassing the over five million eligible students in the country, is disrespectful to those students.
When you speak of that West African nation known as Ghana, it seems we have money for everything in this world except what really matters.
We can waste money on bus branding and sending private citizens on pilgrimage, but providing for schools in the country to have the most basic amenities is a huge no-no.
The reigning champions of the National Science & Maths Quiz, Adisadel College, put up a brilliant performance on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, to keep alive their hope of retaining the trophy they won in 2016.
They competed against Suhum Senior High Technical School and Nkroful Agric Senior High School in the ninth one-eighth stage contest.
In what was largely a one-sided contest, the Santaclausians represented by contestants, Edward De-Graft Vanderpuije Quansah and Sylvester Afful Assan-Annobil left nothing to chance as they dominated the five (5) rounds of competition with an impressive win.
