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An enterprising young Ghanaian child rights activist Bright Appiah has been elected to serve on the 10-member board of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). Appiah, who is the chairman of the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), becomes the first Ghanaian to hold such position. Bright Appiah, CRI Ghana He would hold his new international position for the next
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There was spontaneous jubilation in the Brong Ahafo regional capital, Sunyani, yesterday, when President Mills cut the sod for work to begin on the construction of the University of Energy and Natural Resources for the region.
The sod-cutting ceremony was in fulfillment of a campaign promise by the President to construct two public universities in the
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TUNIS, Tunisia – Authorities clashed with anti-government protesters outside the prime minister's office Monday, teachers went on strike, and police demanded the right to form a union as Tunisia struggled to stabilize itself after its president was overthrown.
Following an overnight 'sleep-in' in defiance of the country's curfew, scores of protesters from Tunisian provinces gathered in central Tunis,
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Johannesburg - Matriculants who qualify to write supplementary exams have a week left in which to register, the department of basic education said on Monday.
The 2010 matriculants had until January 24 to register at the school or centre where they sat their final exams last year, spokesperson Granville Whittle said in a statement.
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Sometimes the teachers make it to school but the children do not - when the fighting is too intense for them to venture outdoors. Sometimes teachers make it to school only to find it has been moved - to enable displaced children to continue learning. This is the nature of teaching in war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, considered one of
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Urugwiro Village — President Paul Kagame, on Tuesday evening, hosted a group of 18 students from Harvard Kennedy School, at Urugwiro Village.
The students have been in the country for the last 10 days, getting a first-hand account of Rwanda's remarkable transformation journey.
During their stay, the students interacted with top government officials,
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Higher Education Minister has put in place modalities for the newly created State University of Bamenda to go operational.
Following the signing on Tuesday December 14, 2010 of a decree by the Head of State creating the University of Bamenda and another stipulating the various departments of the university, the Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame
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Nairobi - Officials from the UK, Canada and Unicef are demanding that the Kenyan government prosecute corrupt officials who stole money earmarked to help send poor children to school.
Alistair Fernie of the British Department for International Development said on Wednesday that no more British money would be channelled through Kenya's education ministry. Representatives from the
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Students of second-circle and tertiary schools in the Tamale Metropolises have been sensitised on revenue that would be
accrued from the oil and gas industry, local content, and bills to regulate the sector, currently in Parliament.
They were from Tamale Polytechnic, Tamale Nursing Training College,
Tamale Training College and Tolon Senior High Business Secondary.
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate for elections 2012 has reiterated that the party would make secondary education free if voted into power.
He said the party would also ensure the rapid transformation of teacher education in the country by providing the necessary infrastructure, equipments and motivation for teachers to enable them
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Trite as ‘Seeing is Believing’ may sound, no better phrase captures the on-going rehabilitation of the Government Technical College, Oshogbo by the Osun State government. The project, undertaken by ‘Skill G’ Nigeria Limited is designed to take TVE to the next level and enhance skilled manpower development.
Workshops are being put in place to train people
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The University of Ghana is reported to have cancelled the matured students examinations written last Saturday following massive leakage of the questions.
Some candidates are alleged to have entered the exams hall with booklets containing the exams questions.
Thirty four candidates are being investigated by the Police in connection with the leakage.
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The right to Education is a fundamental right enshrined in the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.
Article 25 (c) state: “higher education shall be made equally accessible to all on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular, by progressive introduction of free education”.
Any Ghanaian pursuing higher
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Leaders of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) have resolved to soften their stance on their five-week-old strike after an emergency meeting on Saturday.
The teachers have decided to immediately start teaching non-tertiary students.
“We are only teaching the non-tertiary programmes because of the duration within which they are supposed to be
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Some parents in the Upper East Region have expressed concern about recent school fee hikes considering the impoverished nature of the area and high poverty levels of parents.
A fee of 300 Ghana cedis charged by senior high schools in the Region was thus considered too high for parents who insist they cannot afford. The
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Half a dozen old men, draped in traditional blankets, are chatting under an acacia tree here in the foothills of Mount Kenya; when they die the Yaaku language will die with them.
Its disappearance is unlikely to make headlines: over the past three generations more than 200 languages have disappeared and 2,500 others are in danger
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The 2012 flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appealed to President John Evans Atta-Mills to urgently end the strike of Polytechnic teachers using his high office.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Nana Addo said he had acknowledged the President’s intervention in a similar strike action by the University Teachers
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A total of 2,000 pupils from nine public schools in the Effutu Municipality have so far been supplied with free school uniforms and exercise books by government since the distribution programme started.
Nii Ephraim, Effutu Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and Mrs Elizabeth Amoako-Enimil, Municipal Director of Education, made this known when they presented some uniforms and
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The Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central is building a 3-unit classroom block estimated at $60,000 for pupils of Asempaneye Primary School in the Eastern Region.
The facility will replace a dilapidated one in which the pupils were previously studying.
This is an extension to a previously built 3-unit block currently housing
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The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on the General Legal Council to seriously consider the reintroduction of the qualifying certificate in law examination for admission into the Ghana School of Law.
He said this will help clear the increasing backlog of qualified applicants seeking to enter the school, who are unfortunately rejected for
read more..President Mills is assuring lecturers of the public universities that the government will work expeditiously to address their grievances.
The lecturers have been on strike for over two weeks in protest over poor conditions of service compelling the president to institute a seven-man committee to investigate the matter and make recommendations accordingly.
The
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