The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results for the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both school and private candidates. The subject results of 416 school candidates and three private candidates have been cancelled for the offence of either bringing foreign materials into the examination hall or colluding with other candidates. Aside that the entire results of 73 school candidates and two private candidates have also been cancelled for the offence of bringing mobile phones into the examination hall. The subject results of 38 school candidates have been withheld pending conclusion of investigations into various cases of alleged examination malpractice. The entire results of 11 school candidates have also been withheld pending conclusion of investigations into various cases of alleged examination malpractice. This was made known in a press statement dated January 25, 2023, signed and issued on Wednesday night by Rev Victor Brew, th...

The Ghana National Education Coalition Campaign (GNECC) has called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, address the current challenges facing the education system. In addition, it called on the president to honour his commitment during the Transforming Education Summit in the UN that 23 per cent of the National Budget would be allocated to education and coalition was reminding him of that commitment. “The government’s 12.9 per cent budgetary allocation to the education sector in the 2023 national budget although indicates an increase as compared to last year’s allocation, still falls below the target Ghana has set for itself in 2021 during the Global Education Summit held in the United Kingdom where the president pledged to spend at least 23 per cent of the national budget on education over the medium term from 2021 to 2025,” GNECC said in a statement on the occasion to mark International Day of Education. Day The fifth International Day of Education was on the theme: “To inve...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that the results for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School and Private Candidates, 2022, will be released on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. The Ministry of Education’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Kwasi Kwarteng had in an earlier interview said the results would be released on January 19 but the Council in a statement issued today said it was currently conducting post-examination activities having successfully conducted the examination at 2,023 centres and completed co-ordination and marking exercises. A total of 553,408 candidates, including 1,132 private candidates, wrote the examination, which ended on Friday, October 21, 2022. WAEC urges suspected cheats to respond to invitations It said investigations were ongoing into examination irregularity cases detected during and after the conduct of the examination. "For a quick resolution of malpractice cases, the Council appeals to affected school aut...

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice-President of Ghana   The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced that the government will distribute free electronic tablets to all Senior High Schools this year. Dr Bawumia said the "game-changing" development was part of the government's ongoing digitization agenda which has already seen the implementation of free WI-FI at SHSs across the country. The Vice President said he had been informed by the Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, that the country was on course to provide the tablets which will come pre-loaded with textbooks and past examination questions. “This year, we are on course to provide all Senior High School students in Ghana with tablets which are loaded with textbooks on them for their studies. That’s a very game-changing development. We will have past questions preloaded on these tablets that will be distributed to all and I pray that it does come to pass this year...,” Dr Bawumia said Dr Bawumia made this known...

The Conditions of Service for teachers working under the Ghana Education Service across the country expired in December, 2019. Following the expiration of the conditions of Service for Teachers in 2019, the various Teachers Unions in the country sat at the negotiation table with Government and negotiated a new Conditions of Service for Teachers under the Ghana Education Service. The Government of Ghana and the Teacher  Unions within the Ghana Education Service, comprising of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers, (NAGRAT) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH)) on 5th March, 2020 agreed on a new Conditions of service for Teachers. Below are details of the New collective agreement between the Government of Ghana and the three Teacher Unions within the Ghana Education Service as sighted in the implementation approval letter as signed by the deputy minister of finance, Hon. Abena Osei-Asare to the Controller and Accoun...

A lot of people are having problems with their TM1 laptops due to drivers issues. These problems occur, especially, after upgrading to windows 11.  You may have the problems even if you have not upgraded to windows 11.  The sound, Bluetooth and network drivers are the main problems.  How to fix the problems  Method 1 - Uninstalling the Drivers and Restarting the Computer Method 2 - Updating the Drivers Method 3 - Uninstalling and Re-installing the Drivers Method 1 - Uninstalling the Drivers and Restarting the Computer Sometimes a simple restart can resolve a driver issue. If that fails, uninstalling problem driver and restarting the computer can fix most drivers problems.  Infact, Uninstalling the drivers from the device manager does not really uninstall them. It only RESET the drivers. After restarting the computer, the drivers will be reinstall. To  Uninstall a driver : 1.  Right Click on the  Start  Button.  2. Select...

The 2023 academic year for first and second-cycle schools across the country will begin from tomorrow, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said. While it will be the commencement of the first semester for second-cycle schools, it will be the first term for basic schools. This is the third year in a row in which the academic year is commencing from January, after it was jolted by the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from March 2020, during which schools were forced to close down. Previously, the academic year began in September every year. Per the provisional 2023 academic calendar released by the Ministry of Education and the GES to heads of institutions, there will not be double track at any level, and that only two year groups of the three cohorts of students in senior high school (SHS) are to be in school at any given time for the academic year. “In the transitional option, two of the three year groups must be in school at a given time,” it said. According to the GES,...

A neighbour stood on a stool to mark the wall  when measuring Awuche When the BBC visited Ghana's giant, reported to be the world’s tallest man, Sulemana Abdul Samed, known as Awuche with a measuring tape reading 7ft 4in, said, "I don't have a problem with the way God created me." The plan was to have him lean against a wall, mark it by the crown of his head and then determine his height using the measuring tape. "The way they measure me, I cannot say everything is perfect," Awuche admitted - happy with my plan to get an exact measurement. He turned out to be taller than most of the houses in his neighbourhood, but after a good search we found a suitable building with a high-enough wall. He took off his shoes - large slip-ons specially made from car tyres and nailed together for him by a local handyman as he has been unable to find shoes to fit him. Awuche had intended to get a driving licence but he cannot fit behind a steering wheel One of his neighbours c...