Ronan and Rhiannon in Ghana from Send My Friend to School on Vimeo. Ronan and Rhiannon are the Send My Friend to School young global education ambassadors for 2010. In February they travelled to Ghana to explore barriers to education. 72 million children worldwide are missing out on school and nearly one million of them …
Read more »The Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, Agyewodin (Professor) Adu-Gyamfi Ampem, has expressed concern about the attitude of some GES staff whom he said “regard the service as residual and do not invariably give of their best”. Indeed these people have entered the service as a result of their inability to find something …
Read more »Just like the Panest model of combining education and sports for effective youth development, 1GOAL is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. By bringing together footballers and fans, charities and organisations around the world, together we can call …
Read more »Jessica Alba sits with a pupil photo: morgana wingard/one/ap photo Bono, Jessica Alba, U.S Co-Chair of 1GOAL and a number of African soccer players visited a school in Ghana in support of 1GOAL: Education for All. 1Goal is a new initiative, centered around the 2010 World Cup and aims at raising awareness and money to …
Read more »It is yet another year and Panest Junior High School’s “Class of 2010″ BECE candidates have finished the exams amidst celebrations. Below is an overview of this landmark in the lives of these young ones and national frenzy BECE candidates celebrate end of exams There have been joyous outpouring from Junior High School candidates who …
Read more »The BECE aggregate cut-off point for admission into senior secondary school (SHS) has been revised from 30 to 25, beginning this 2010/2011 academic year. Thus the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) will use five subjects (four core subjects and one (the best) elective) to compute the candidate’s aggregate. This is part of the …
Read more »The Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE), which got underway throughout the country yesterday, recorded the least absentees in recent times in the Sunyani Municipality, while there have also not been any reports of examination malpractice as at the time The Chronicle visited some of the centres yesterday, reports Michael Boateng from Sunyani. Rev. Kankan Dwumfour, …
Read more »From next Academic year, students in Ghana from primary to the Senior High School level will begin the study of Road Safety as part of the Ghana Education Service academic curriculum. The subject will be examinable at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level. The collaboration which is between the Ghana Road Safety Commission (GRSC) …
Read more »Panest works to supplement the Ghana government’s efforts to provide universal education for children to ensure a poverty-free society. The editorial article below sheds some opinions on achieving this goal. Making free compulsory basic education a reality Accra (Ghana) – For any country to ensure a continuous supply of its manpower requirements there should be …
Read more »Key points of the new Ghana education system: Universal Basic Education shall now be 11 years, made up of: 2 years of Kindergarten 6 years of Primary School 3 years of Junior High School (JHS) After JHS, students may choose to go into different streams at Senior High School (SHS), comprising General Education and Technical, …
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