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GES holds a 3-day Scheme of Service document review and validation workshop

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - February 25, 2024

Management of GES with support from PwC Ghana has held a Scheme of Service document review and validation workshop from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th February 2024. The Scheme of Service will serve as a structured framework defining the various job roles, responsibilities, career progression (or criteria for career advancement), skills and competencies for each role and staff categories within the Service. The Scheme of Service will also help align the workforce with the new organisational structure, ensuring a smooth transition and strategic alignment with the GES's goals. As part of the workshop, the team reviewed the GES Competency framework, a framework that provides a systematic approach to defining, assessing, and managing the skills, behaviours, and knowledge required for optimal job performance within the Service. It will also ensure that the Service is aligned to the redesigned workforce and reflect the core competencies required for effective performance within GES. The ...

One Student - One Tablet Distribution Ongoing

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - February 21, 2024

The Government One-Student One-Tablet (1S1T) initiative has been implemented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) schools across the nation. Sefwi Awaso STEM SHS, with a student enrollment of Eight Hundred and Sixty-Eight (868), has been provided with 868 tablets through this initiative. This program is aimed at enhancing the learning experience and providing equal opportunities for all students, recognizing the increasing importance of technology in our education system. The leadership of H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia inspires confidence in the promising future of our youth and the nation as a whole. This initiative marks a significant step forward in the integration of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in our education system.

Everything you need to know about Switch 3.1

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - May 26, 2023

The University of Cape Coast and the Ashanti branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) have collaboratively launched a fresh educational program named Switch 3.1. Switch 3.1 has been designed to provide a unique opportunity for basic level teachers to transition and teach at the secondary level. This program aims to bridge the gap between these two educational levels and address the need for qualified educators in secondary schools. Details are as follows; 1. Who qualifies to apply? Any teacher from anywhere across Ghana who has a degree in basic education and wish to have another degree in secondary education. Diploma or HND holders do not qualify to apply. If you are already at the senior high school and do not hold the requisite qualification to teach the subject you are handling, this is an opportunity to acquire the certificate. 2. What is the duration of the programe? Is three (3) semesters in one year. Is a specialisation programme which would ...

GES to roll out PLC sessions across SHSs and SHTSs

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - May 26, 2023

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has initiated plans for a national roll out of Professional Learning Community (PLC) sessions across all Senior High Schools (SHSs) and Senior High Technical Schools (SHTSs) in Ghana. This is aimed at strengthening teachers’ understanding and adherence to the National Teachers’ Standards (NTS) and preparing them for the introduction of the new secondary education curriculum which will be rolled-out in the 2024/25 academic year. GES piloted the use of PLC weekly sessions in 12 SHS and SHTS in January 2022, using structured handbooks developed in partnership with the National Teaching Council (NTC). A recent evaluation found that these weekly sessions had a significant impact on improving teaching and learning in these 12 schools, providing a strong evidence-base for the national scale-up of this approach. To ensure the smooth institutionalisation of the PLC sessions across all schools, GES organized a five-day training s...

2022 BECE results released; Mobile phone offenders' results cancelled

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - January 26, 2023

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...

Address challenges in education sector — GNECC

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - January 25, 2023

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...

BECE 2022 results to be released January 25

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - January 19, 2023

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. Bawumia Announces 1 Student - 1 Tablet Policy for SHS

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - January 18, 2023

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...

2023 Basic, SHS academic calendars commence tomorrow

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - January 09, 2023

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,...

GES Director-General Prof Opoku-Amankwa relieved of post

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - October 19, 2022

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has been relieved of his post. He is to go back to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from where he was seconded to the GES. A letter from the presidency, dated October 17, 2022, signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante, thanked him for his service to the nation and wished him the "very best in future endeavours." This is following the termination of his secondment and a directive to return to his position at the KNUST. Prof Opoku-Amankwa was first appointed as Director-General (D-G) of the GES in April 2017 on secondment from the KNUST. And after three years in office, the President in a letter dated January 22, 2021, appointed him again as D-G of GES and another letter dated June 14, 2021, extending his secondment from KNUST. But the letter from the presidency said the extension was in “contravention of the Human Resource ...

Accountant-General’s Department suspends salaries of some public sector workers

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - October 09, 2022

The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has suspended payment of September 2022 salaries to some public sector workers. The decision, the CAGD said is due to a mismatch of the bank names of the affected government workers on the payroll system and also invalid bank account numbers. A letter sighted by JoyNews, indicates that the CAGD made the announcement on October 3 after a “quality assurance and other validation processes” were carried out. It advised affected employees with mismatched bank names to report to the payroll coordination unit of CAGD at Block A, Room 32 with documents under a cover from the MDA confirming that they are at post. The required documents include; an appointment letter, current posting letter, National Identification card, Pay-slips for the last 3 months and a voided cheque leaflet of their bank account. “For employees with invalid bank account numbers, they are supposed to submit their correct account numbers to the PPSs for update”, t...

List of Winners at the 2022 National Teachers Award

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - October 06, 2022

A teacher at the Adenta CommunityJHS, Stella Gyimaah Larbi has emerged as the overall best teacher for 2022. She was awarded a three-bedroom house worth GHC300,000 for being the most outstanding teacher for 2022. She received the award at the Ghana Teacher Prize ceremony held on Wednesday, October 5 at the University of Development Studies, Tamale. She expressed gratitude to her students, colleagues teachers and all persons who contributed to her achievement. “Being here as the most outstanding teacheris as a result of the little good I put together…Thank you to all teachers who came before me, especially my father, Francis Larbi, my Literature in English teacher, Awo Dede, my favourite JHS teacher, and thank you to my students who keep making me better,” she said. Other awardees include; Shamuna Mohammed Ahmed, second runner-up for the non-teaching category, Emmanuel Boi Ashitey, first runner-up for the non-teaching category, Foster Amoako, best non-teaching staff, Enyo ...

World Teachers’ Day: Celebrating teachers for sacrifices

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - October 05, 2022

Yesterday, I read an inscription on a moving vehicle: “If you can read this, thank a teacher”. Initially, I ignored it but upon a sober reflection I realized the depth of the inscription and it kept me thinking the role of the teacher in my life. Today, October 5, the focus is on the role of the teacher in impacting knowledge. The day, globally set aside every year to celebrate teachers for their selfless and dedicated service to mankind. Ghana Teacher Prize The day is always marked with the award of high performing teachers known as the Ghana Teacher Prize. All roads lead to the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale as the climax of the celebration rolls out at the multi-purpose hall of the university. With President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to be ably supported by the Education Minister and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum and Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa respectively as well as all those who matter in the educational sector...

Register : Free CPD Points for Teachers by NTC and Instill Education

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - August 24, 2022

The National Teaching Council and Instill Education, South Africa is organizing training for Ghanaian Teachers (Self-Learning) from 1st August to 30th September 2022. The training will be organized online to enable all teachers to register and participate for CPD points. Module Selection There are 20 modules that you can choose from as part of the programme. The modules have been grouped into two categories: Headteacher Modules Classroom Teacher Modules The modules for head teachers are focused on School Improvement Planning, Classroom Observation of Teachers and Improving School-Wide Routines for headteachers. The modules for teachers are focused on Classroom Management, Learner Engagement, Universal Design for Learning, and Curriculum Planning. Teachers would be required to select and complete two models. The modules available for the training are listed below: Building Relationships for Meaningful Observations (Head Teacher Module) Fixing Broken Routines ...

Education Ministry takes delivery of textbooks tomorrow

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - August 22, 2022

The Ministry of Education will take delivery of 3,742,624 textbooks from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) tomorrow. In all, 11,135 schools under the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP) will benefit from the distribution, which will include 1,214,347 Primary One to Three pupils. In addition, a publisher, Prof. Quarm, has also distributed 275,000 books for classes One to Six, while 629,755 Creative Arts books for classes One to Three and 43,832 teachers’ guide would be sent to the schools. York Press is also distributing 246,633 science textbooks for classes One to Six and 14,217 teachers’ guide. The others are Afram Publications, 440,000 English textbooks for classes Four to Six and NNF Publication, 51,087 science textbooks for classes One to Three pupils. Minister The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, who made this known at a press briefing in Accra last Friday, said more textbooks would be coming this week and would be sen...

Enforcement of teacher licensing law begins 2023

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - August 19, 2022

Effective January next year, the National Teaching Council (NTC) will begin the enforcement of the law on teacher licensing in the country. This means that all teachers in public and private schools have between now and December 31, 2022 to possess a licence before they can teach in any school in the country. The failure to have a licence will result in prosecution of the unlicensed teacher and owner of the school employing such a person. “Now, we are moving into the licensing enforcement stage and from January 2023, anybody who does not have the authorisation (licence) to teach, the NTC will deal with that person because the law is clear; you can be prosecuted for not owning a licence and teaching,” the Registrar of the NTC, Dr Christian Addai-Poku, told the Daily Graphic in Accra. Regulatory Act Among other things, he said Section 79 of the Education Regulatory Bodies Act, 2020 (Act 1023) stated that, “A person shall not knowingly or negligently employ a person as a teacher in an ins...

Tamale to Host Ghana Teacher Prize - 2022

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - May 05, 2022

Ghana Teacher Prize, an award scheme instituted to honour outstanding teachers annually is to be held this year in Tamale. At a planning committee meeting held in the month of February, 2022, Tamale was proposed as the venue for this year’s Ghana Teacher Prize. This has subsequently been approved by the Honourable Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum. On Friday, April 22, 2022, Dr. Christian Addai-Poku, the Registrar of NTC led a delegation made up of Miss Grace Agyeman Duah, the National Coordinator of GTP, Mr. Dennis Osei-Owusu, the Public Relations Officer of NTC, Miss Grace Adoma Ababio of Standards and Compliance Department of NTC and Mrs. Rhoda Ohene Tuffour, Budget Officer of NTC to meet with the Northern Regional Education Directorate and the Local Planning Committee (LOC). GTP is a three-day event which commences from 3rd to 5th of October annually. The first two days are used for symposium and exhibition, the last day, 5th October (World Teachers’ Day) is th...

We have not introduced uniforms for teachers – GES

By Abdul-Latif Ahmed - April 11, 2022

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dispelled claims that teachers in public schools will henceforth wear uniforms to their workplace. Over the weekend, some social media users reported that teachers will now report to work in dull peach coloured shirts and deep brown skirts and trousers with the Ghana Education Service tag on the left pocket. In a Facebook post on Sunday, the GES noted that it has and would not issue a circular on social media announcing the introduction of uniforms for teachers. According to the Service, it cannot independently decide that teachers should wear uniforms to work since it would have to engage the various teacher unions. “GES is one of the largest Government agencies in Ghana. We employ more than half of all government employees. If we want to introduce uniforms for teachers, we won’t do that through social media and over the weekend,” the Service added. The Service has implored the public to disregard such reports as they are “fake news”.