Category: Education

WE ARE GRATEFUL MR PRESIDENT FOR BEING A GENERATIONAL THINKER AND DROPPING THE (CSE).

The controversial comprehensive s$xuality education (CSE), which has made a lot on the airwaves especially on political platforms for almost a week and more has finally been dropped by the president of the republic of Ghana.

The youth, responsible and patriotic citizens are happy and grateful for the presidents decision on the CSE

Mr Alfred Ahiatsi who in the course of the controversies made a lot of comments and youth gathering to solicitate views and explain detail of the CSE to his community members.

Mr Alfred said the youth will forever be grateful to the president for taking the bold initiative to drop the CSE and also asked the youth to be more interested in things happening around them

STORY BY MAVIS DAVOR

October 8, 2019
Philanthropist Donates To Abroma D/A JHS.

Mr. Edward Owusu-Korkor, a Philanthropist, has donated 100 furniture dual desk worth GHc8,000 to the Abroma D/A JHS, situated in the Afigya Kwabre North District of Ashanti Region.

The chairs were donated alongside a well-furnished computer laboratory to the school with the purpose of helping solve the problem of furniture and improving ICT skills, hampering the effectiveness of teaching and learning at the Junior high school.

The donation was in response to a request made by Master Boakye Douglas, Head-teacher of the school in a call to the stakeholders depicting the plight of the children due to the lack of furniture.

Mr. Edward Owusu-Korkor, when speaking to media after the presentation says, it’s his wish to help the students obtain a better future.

“Scholarship has already been awarded to some of the students in the senior high school before the introduction of free SHS, a French teacher has been employed to teach in the school from my own coffers and other infrastructural projects has been done for the school”, he reveals.

He noted that it is his personal goal to build Abroma University in the next 11 years, to Foster the education level in the Afigya Kwabre North District and beyond for Abroma name to be registered in the public domain.

Story by Emmanuel koranteng. |DFM|DIKODER.COM|

October 3, 2019
Provide equipment for new curriculum – Mr. Kyeremeh urged Gov’t

Mr. Kyeremeh Peter, the proprietor of KAFAPEE Preparatory school at Ayeasu Camp in the Techiman North constituency, has urged the government to provide all equipment for the new curriculum.

According to him, there are a lot of practical works in the new curriculum which demand a lot of equipment.

Mr. Kyeremeh urged Gov’t

Story by Emmanuel koranteng. |DFM|DIKODER.COM

September 20, 2019
CSSPS Placement troubles could have been avoided- Dr. George Atta Boateng

Former Coordinator of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Dr. George Atta-Boateng says certain major changes within the system have contributed to the problems with student placement in Senior High Schools this year.

Among the contributing factors to the challenges which Dr. Atta-Boateng said could have been avoided, he highlighted the absence of a technical working committee, a supervisory body for the placement centre, which has been dissolved since 2017.

“It [the committee] is being handled by the [Education Ministry] and GES [Ghana Education Service] so they should answer. Why was that committee dissolved?”

The problems in the placement culminated in thousands of students and their parents or guardians trooping to the Black Star Square to rectify errors with their placement.

As Senior High schools reopen this week, a number of the students who qualified have not yet been placed by the Computerised Placement System for varying reason prompting renewed criticism of the process.

Others who were also placed want new placements.

Dr. Atta-Boateng also bemoaned the clearout of staff who had been trained in various data processing tasks over the last 13 years.

“As I speak to you today, with the exception of the secretary, all of them have been transferred… if you go to the secretariat now, we have new faces. It is only the secretary who is old.”

A key contributing factor to the struggles, according to him, is also the introduction of new software to manage the placement which he felt was needless.

“If we are seeing all these problems, would you call it [the new software] a solution?” he argued, adding that clarity was need on the reason for the changes.

“It is all about decision making, I am not saying I am against the change of the software. Probably they had reasons. They need to give us technical reasons because the old software was working [perfectly].”

September 17, 2019
Students collapse as thousands gather at Black Star Square to chase SHS placement

There are thousands of students gathered at the Black Star Square in Accra seeking to rectify errors with their placement into Senior High schools.

The exercise was put in place to enable qualified students to get a place at schools they may not have chosen but have space.

As Senior High schools reopen this week, a number of the students who qualified have not yet been placed by the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

The exercise has also been marred by incidents of students collapsing.

Some of them have been admitted at the Emergency Department at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge Hospital after they passed out.

A pregnant woman who was at the venue for her ward was also rushed to the emergency department.

Source : citinews

September 16, 2019
Yamfo College of Health students to demonstrate over accreditation

Students of the College of Health, Yamfo, in the Ahafo region are displeased over some alleged deceptive actions of authorities of Yamfo College of Health which they say does not have accreditation.

The students are claiming that the school’s assurance of having full accreditation from the National Accreditation Board (NAB) is spurious.

The aggrieved students also alleged that the school had made assertions of been affiliated with the University of Cape Coast and went ahead to indicate so on their website.

The Media has confronted through the list of all accredited public Nurses Training College Published on the website of the National Accreditation Board. Yamfo College of Nursing was not captured.

Story by Emmanuel koranteng

September 15, 2019
Upper West maintains below 50% BECE performance for six years

Wa, Aug. 12, GNA – The Upper West Region has consistently maintained below 50 per cent performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for the past six years.

This poor performance at the BECE level, which served as the foundation for the secondary and tertiary levels is attracting lots of dissatisfied concerns among stakeholders in the region.

Addressing the Upper West Region Youth Parliament during the International Youth Day celebration in Wa, Mr Justine Kpan, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Ghana Education Service (GES) presented statistics on the abysmal BECE performance in the region for the past six years.

He said in 2013, the region presented a total of 10,625 candidates out of which 4,005 passed the exams representing 37.69 per cent.

This dropped to 28.81 per cent when only 3,544 candidates passed the exams out of the total of 12,300 candidates presented in 2014.

Furthermore, only 1,189 candidates representing 28.87 per cent passed their exams out of the total number of 12,440 candidates that were presented for the BECE in 2015.

In 2016, a total number of 12,430 candidates were presented out of which 3,789 passed representing 30.48 per cent.

However, there was an appreciable increase to 41.09 per cent in 2017 when a total of 4,900 candidates passed the examination out of the general population of 11,926 candidates presented.

This again dropped to 34.14 per cent when 4,174 candidates passed out of the 12,225 candidates presented in 2018.

Mr Kpan noted that the 2018 BECE lowest performance of 17.45 per cent among the districts was recorded by the Nandom District and this was closely followed by Jirapa District with 17.51 per cent.

Lambussie District and Lawra Municipal inched it up a bit by recording 20.12 per cent and 20.62 per cent respectively.

Equally, Nadowli-Kaleo and Daffiama-Bussie-Issa improved marginally by recording 21.39 per cent and 22.40 percent respectively.

Also competing in the 40s bracket are Sissala West, 40.71 percent; Wa West, 42.33 per cent; and Wa Municipal, 49.42 per cent.

Even at the District level, only Wa East crossed 50 per cent when it led the league table with a total score of 61.90 per cent.

Mr Kpan blamed the abysmal performance majorly on too much interference in the management of education especially in the area of human resource management.

“If you move to some of the schools in some districts, you will find just one trained teacher in a whole school as against several National Service and Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) personnel in the school”, he lamented.

The PRO added that this interference had made it so difficult for them to evenly distribute the human resource within the service.

“The problem is, you send a teacher there and you receive a thousand phone calls asking you to revert the posting as if the people there do not deserve a bit of the national cake”, he again lamented.

Mr Kpan also identified lack of teachers’ accommodation as one of the challenges to poor academic performance in the region.

He therefore proposed to the various District Youth Parliaments to impress upon their District Assemblies to put up what was known as cluster of accommodation to accommodate teachers from different schools that were within the same locality.

This, he said would reduce time spent on commuting and increase contact hours to bring about improved performance at the BECE level in the region.

Mr Kpan was speaking on the theme: “The Role of the Youth in Contributing to quality education in Ghana”.

GNA By Prosper K. Kuorsoh, GNA

August 13, 2019
KUMASI SHS ASST. HEAD SUSPENDED FOR ALLEGEDLY SODOMIZING 4 STUDENTS

The Assistant Headmaster of Kumasi High School, George Amponsah-Duodo, has been suspended by the Ashanti Regional Education Directorate over allegations that he has sodomized some students of the boys school. According to the Regional Education Directorate, the 54-year-old’s suspension is to allow investigations to be conducted into the matter without any interference. Mr. Amponsah-Duodu is alleged to have engaged in acts of sodomy with some students in the all-male school. Four students have so far leveled allegations against the school head. The Public Relations officer of the GES in the Ashanti Region, Mark Ofori, said the action against the Assistant Headmaster is to ascertain the truth. “Under the leadership of Mrs. Mary Owusu Achiaaw, the GES in Ashanti is poised to take out any miscreant who has decided not to abide by the rules and the tenets of the service.” “The issue of alleged sodomy at Kumasi High has come to our notice. It has been referred to our legal department and we have started our primary investigations into the case. As it stands, the accused has been asked to step aside. We urge the public to have confidence in the directorate pending the conclusion of investigations,” he said. The accused headmaster is reported to have commenced his career in 1996 as a teacher. He however rose through the ranks to become Assistant Headmaster of Kumasi High School in November 2015. He is married with four children. Source: citinewsroom

November 17, 2018