Mr Issifu Salifu Kanton, Executive Director of Community Development Alliance (CDA), has said Senior High School (SHS) education in Northern Ghana is nearing a crisis level. He said the academic calendar had been so badly affected that a three-year period of education had now been reduced to practically two years, making it difficult for effective teaching and learning. Mr Issifu Salifu Kanton, who made this known at a press conference in Wa, attributed the situation to the consistent delay in the release of feeding grants by successive governments to cover the feeding expenses of SHS students in the Northern, Upper East and the Upper West Regions. He said it was regrettable to note that since 1992 till date, payment of feeding grants to SHSs in the three regions has remained a challenge and posed one of the biggest threats to the delivery of quality education to the people from the affected regions”. “As we speak, government has not released funds for the feeding of SHS st...

Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, Vice Chancellor of UDS Vice Chancellor of University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, has announced that the duration of the University’s Medical Programme has been reduced from seven to six years. He said the new tenure, which takes effect this academic year, was a decision by the Academic Board of UDS to enable the School of Medicine and Health Sciences run a conventional medical programme as was done in other Medical Schools in other countries. The Vice Chancellor announced this at the 24th Matriculation at UDS Nyankpala Campus in the Northern Region. In a speech read on his behalf, Professor Ayum Teye said the development had reduced the number of students admitted for this year academic to the number, which could just to join their colleagues in the Second Year of the Medical Programme. However, this automatically increases the total number of students, he said. He stated that the University had also admi...

When the broth of a dog’s head has ushered and established generational peace between the Dagaabas and Frafras in the Upper West and Upper East regions of Ghana, then there is much for Ghanaians to learn from it as the country heads for the polls in December this year. It won’t be a surprise for questioners to ask if any valuable thing could come out of a story surrounding dog meat and its connection with these two major ethnic groups. Even the awesome attributes and origin of the savior Jesus Christ, whom Christians deem the most important divine gift to the world, stirred skeptics to question whether something good could ever come from Nazareth, his birthplace. But the latter’s strides in human history offers a reason to always discard stereotyped views and re-examine unclear subjects, or issues by according them attention in order to realize their essence and best offerings to society. People of the Dagaaba and Frafra stocks are playmates who do not compromise on their re...

The Headmaster of the Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) in the Northern Region, Mr Suaib Wilberforce Adams, has expressed concern over the activities of encroachers who are taking over lands belonging to the school. He asked them to desist from the practice, explaining that some of them had gone to the extent of converting parts of the school’s lands into drinking bars. He expressed these sentiments when he addressed the 65th anniversary and 22nd Speech and Prize-giving Day of TAMASCO in Tamale. The ceremony, which brought together parents, teachers, chiefs, past and continuing students of the school, was held on the theme: “Sixty-five years of TAMASCO: a legacy of educational excellence built on the foundation of Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter.” Mr Adams, who is also the Chairman for the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) in the northern sector, said anytime the school attempted to fence its lands, some of the encroachers and the residents in...