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Achimota PTA justifies selective application of school rules on Caucasians

Chairman of the Achimota Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Dr Andre Kwasi-Kumah, has justified the selective application of rules in the school in the midst...

Why I won’t cut my dreadlocks – Rejected Achimota student [Video]

One of the students at the centre of a controversy over dreadlocks in second-cycle institutions, Tyron Marghuy, has vowed not to sacrifice...

Achimota School allowed Boakye Gyan to practice ancestral worship – Kwaku Azar alledges

Law professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, is shocked at the decision taken by management of Achimota School not to admit two first-year students in dreadlocks. According...

Help rebuild our public finances – Akufo-Addo to Organised Labour

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appealed to the leadership and membership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Organised Labour to assist Government in the...

Over 2,000 students refused admission to Atebubu College of Education

The Atebubu College of Education has offered 500 students admission to study various undergraduate programmes in the 2020-2021 academic year. This was out of some...

Rastafarian student receives psychological treatment

Father of Rastafarian student, Ras Asward Nkrabea, says his son, Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, has been scarred and traumatised after being denied admission to study...

Lawyer’s stern warning to Achimota School over dreadlocks students

Lawyer of the Rastafarian Council, Ras Tetteh Wayo, has issued a stern warning to authorities of the Achimota School as he announces plans of...

GIJ students to ‘occupy campus’ over this…

Students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) are angry over a directive management of the school gave students who paid their fees late. The...

Allotey Jacobs’ interesting take on Rasta students saga [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Allotey Jacobs’ interesting take on Rasta students saga Former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress has asked Ghanaians to stop...

GNAT states position on Rastafarian students saga [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · GNAT states position on Rastafarian students saga The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has said every school has laws and therefore should...

Ghana School of Law defers release of results

The fate of scores of Ghana School of Law students awaiting the results of remarking of their scripts has been left hanging in a...

New twist to story of dreadlocks student denied admission at Achimota School

Lawyer for the Rastafari Council, George Tetteh Wayo, says the Council is trying other alternatives to get admission in another institution for one of...

Pupil killed in robbery attack, two others sustain gunshot wounds

A pupil of the Hariya Junior High School has died after he was shot by suspected robbers at Zebilla in the Bawku West District...

Achimota School dreadlocks saga: Kwaku Azar ‘fires’ GES on sudden u-turn

Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, has said Ghanaians should fear the Ghana Education Service (GES) for backtracking on its initial...

GES makes u-turn on Achimota School dreadlocks saga

Lawyer of the Rastafarian Council says the Ghana Education Service (GES) has backtracked on its initial directive asking the Achimota Senior High School to...

Rastafarian students brouhaha: Lawyer sends strong message to stakeholders

Private legal practitioner, Gary Nimako Marfo, has called for calm and restraint amid the ongoing Rastafarian students' admission saga at Achimota School. Mr Nimako has...

Achimota SHS dreadlocks saga: NAGRAT bares teeth at GES

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is incensed at a directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the management of Achimota Senior...

NaSIA can’t stop private schools from accessing their funds from banks – GNACOPS

After government's failure to support private schools through the National Board for Small-Scale Industries Covid-19 Recovery Programme, a recent directive by the National Schools...

Winners of 2020 WAEC Distinction Awards now in Ivy League schools

Winners of the 2020 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Distinction Awards have gained admission at Ivy League universities in the United States of America....

Achimota old students send message to GES over Rastafarian students

Old students of Achimota School have called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to rescind its directive issued to the management of the school...

Traditional priest allegedly refused admission by Dzodze-Penyi SHS

An 18-year-old Junior High School graduate has been denied admission into Dzodze-Penyi Senior High School after it was revealed he is a traditional priest. Galley...

Rastafarian student who was denied admission at Achimota School speaks

Tyrone Iras Marhguy, the Rastafarian student who has been denied admission to the Achimota School, has expressed shock at the school’s disregard for his...

GES takes decision on Rastafarian students denied admission at Achimota SHS

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has instructed authorities of Achimota Senior High School (SHS) to admit the two first year students who reported on...

Rastafarian Council to petition CHRAJ over ‘Achimota SHS snub’

The Rastafarian Continental Council of Ghana is set to petition the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) after two students with dreadlocks...

Unapproved textbooks: the regulatory gap that needs plugging – Dr Prince Hamid Armah writes

These reports have been very disturbing to all of us. As a country, our schools and education system were from the get go, not...

Achimota SHS allegedly denies two Rastafarians admission

Authorities at Achimota Senior High School (SHS) in Accra have allegedly denied admission to two Rastafarian students. A disgruntled parent, identified as Raswad Menkrabea, who...

GES releases academic calendar as double-track system continues in some schools

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the academic calendar for Senior High Schools (SHS) for the 2020/2021 academic year. This comes on the back of plans to continue...

Joe Ghartey condemns anti-Voltarian textbooks

Member of Parliament for Essikado Ketan Constituency, Joe Ghartey, has condemned the stereotyping of Voltarians. Mr Ghartey, who prides himself as “a Voltarian by choice,”...

NPP reacts to offensive Ewe textbooks

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the controversial newly-authored history textbooks titled 'History of Ghana'. The textbooks -History of Ghana and Golden English - authored...

History textbook saga: Former NaCCA boss makes passionate appeal [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Give NaCCA legal backing to sanction publishers who breach regulations - NaCCA Former Dir. to Parl. The former Director-General of the National Council...

Ewe textbook brouhaha: Ursula Owusu wants publishers sanctioned

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, wants publishers of the newly-authored history textbooks titled ‘History of Ghana’ sanctioned. In her view,...

Badu Nkansah Publications in more trouble over controversial anti-Ewe textbooks

The Ghana Publishers Association has revealed it will take disciplinary measures against one of its members, Badu Nkansah Publications for putting offensive and inappropriate...

UCC engages 3 prison inmates as facilitators

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has engaged three inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison as facilitators for the university’s Distance Learning Programme...

GRASAG sends message to govt over Open University policy

The Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) is demanding the speedy implementation of the proposed Open University policy by the government. According to GRASAG, the...

‘Offensive Ewe’ textbooks still being sold in markets – MP

The controversial newly-authored history textbooks titled 'History of Ghana' is still being sold on the market. According to the Member of Parliament for North Tongu,...

V/R House of Chiefs bare teeth at publishers of offensive history text book

The Volta Regional House of Chiefs is threatening to take legal action against publishers of the newly-authored history textbooks titled ‘History of Ghana’. According to...

‘History’ textbook sparks social media anger as publisher apologises

A textbook purporting to be that which teaches Ghana's history to pupils in Primaries 3 and 4 of Ghana's schools has suffered stillbirth. The...

NaCCA directs immediate withdrawal ‘offensive’ textbooks

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ghana has called for the withdrawal of some textbooks on the market that negatively characterizes...

2021 Budget: Akufo-Addo completed 28 of Mahama’s E-blocks – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

As part of increased efforts to provide infrastructure in the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) Programme, 28 community day secondary schools...

SONA 2021: Govt began full absorption of WASSCE registration fees in 2020 – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that his government had begun absorbing registration fees for candidates writing the West Africa Senior Secondary School...