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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has approved some subjects for study leave without pay for the 2019/2020 academic year. In a press statement issued to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations of the Service, the approved subjects applied to both teaching and non-teaching staff. The subjects include Physical Education, Information Communication Technology, French, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Integrated Science. ADVERTISEMENT Others are Special Education, Guidance and Counselling, Ghanaian Language, Early Childhood, Visual Arts, History, Geography, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Technical Programmes, among others. Subjects such as supply and logistics, laboratory technician, library information studies are also included. The Statement, however, indicated that technical programmes did not include vocational programmes. Source:  ghananewsagency.org

Superintendent Sheila Buckman, Director of Police Public Affairs ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The Ghana Police Service has cautioned Junior High School (JHS) students who have just completed the Basic Educate Certificate Examination (BECE) to be guarded in celebrating their achievement. A total of 517,332 students, comprising 263,616 males and 253,716 females sat for the exam which begun on Monday, 10 June and ended today, Friday, 14 June 2019. The police administration, in a statement, said: “It has been observed from previous years that some JHS graduates indulge in drug and alcohol abuse and other acts that lead to crimes and injuries, and in some cases, death at the beaches among others.” ADVERTISEMENT “Beach revellers, night club patrons and such others are to be careful to avoid injuries and breaching the law,” the statement added. Parents and guardians have also been a

Principal of Jackson College of Education, Theodosia Jackson ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! Theodosia Jackson, the Principal of Jackson College of Education has advised this year's Basic Education Certificate candidates to refrain from any form of examination malpractice to avoid cancellation of papers. The veteran educationists further admonished them to aim at earning their certificates honestly and on merit. She gave the advice at a press briefing in Kumasi to exhort the candidates to a sterling performance in their first ever external examination. ADVERTISEMENT The Principal who doubles as counsellor asked parents to create a congenial atmosphere at home for their wards and lighten chores during the examination period. "Parents should reduce household chores to enable their wards have enough time to prepare for each day's battle," Mrs. Jackson advised.

File photo ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! Nine candidates, three males and six females failed to report for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Twene Amanfo Senior High/Technical School (TASTECH) cluster of examination centers in Sunyani. The examination supervisors could however not assign reasons for the candidates not turning up when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the ‘TASTECH A’, ‘TASTECH B’ ‘TASTECH C’ and ‘TASTECH D’ centres on Wednesday. A total of 1,180 candidates that comprised 594 girls and 586 boys wrote the examination at the four centres. ADVERTISEMENT Mrs. Evelyn Konadu Boaten, one of the Supervisors told the GNA that the examination commenced without any hitch. A Community Police Assistant was assigned to maintain law and order at each of the Centres. Meanwhile, a total of 49,127 candidates comprising 25,508 boys and 23

File photo ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has been advised to do all in its power to ensure a leakage-free Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year and beyond. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, The Very Reverend Solomon Kwasi Nyantakyi –Adomako, Superintendent Minister of the Bethel Methodist church at Sefwi Wiawso, lamented that cancellation of examination papers due to leakages and other malpractices, destroyed the zeal in students and impacted negatively on their future academic and other social pursuits. He urged all stakeholders to play their respective roles effectively to ensure an accident-free examination to give a better direction to the future of the students. ADVERTISEMENT Rev. Nyantakyi- Adomako also urged the candidates to be bold, courageous and fight a good fight, as fear bred fail

Valerian Osei-Nyarko ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! A 14-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate is reported missing in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, missing four papers.  Valerian Osei-Nyarko who visited his father in Koforidua, was put in a bus last Saturday to return to Kumasi where he has been staying with the aunt, to begin the BECE but was said to have got down from bus at the Koforidua station.  His father, Joseph Osei-Nyarko told the host of Takoradi-based Connect FM morning show, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson that the boy has been living with his aunt in Kumasi since the death of the wife.  According to the father, the boy, a pupil of Unique Standard Preparatory School in Atonsu, only visited him in Koforidua during vacations and went back to Kumasi whenever school reopens.  “He came to visit me on Thursday, May 30. On Saturday, I personally accompanied

File photo ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! A female candidate of the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), brave the odds and took her six week old baby along to write the examination which began nationwide on Monday. The candidate (name withheld) a student of one of the Junior High School in the Sekyere-Central District of Ashanti, was among the 1,144 candidates who registered to take part in this year’s BECE in the District, but got pregnant afterwards. This came out when the Ghana News Agency joined Mr Kwadwo Banahene Bediako, the District Chief Executive (DCE) and Mr Anthony Maxwel Amoako, the District Director of Education, to tour some of the examination centres. Undeterred to write the examination, she sought the assistance of her grandmother who accompanied her to the Kwamang SHS examination centre to provide care as she wrote the papers. The grandmother was spo

The BECE has begun across the country ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured all candidates and stakeholders within the Chereponi area that all the necessary steps had been taken to ensure maximum security and safety during the examinations. It also called on the security agencies to help deal decisively with all those who would attempt to undermine the integrity of the exercise and to jeopardize the future of the candidates. These were contained in a media release issued by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of the Public Relations Unit and copied the Ghana News Agency. “Management therefore calls for the support and cooperation of all those involved to ensure that the future of these innocent children was not frustrated by any form of insecurity during the period,” it added. All candidates and stakeholders were assured that Management had worked closel

Students writing their BECE at the Kanda Cluster of Schools ADVERTISEMENT Discount on your flight to the US or Europe Book via this link and receive  US$ 50  discount! The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has entreated candidates writing the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to desist from engaging in any form of examination malpractice.  A total of 517,332 students, comprising 263,616 males and 253,716 females are writing this year’s exams.  In a statement to wish the candidates well, the National Coordinator of GNECC, Ms Veronica Dzeagu, stated that: “The main purpose of such examinations is not to fail any child. Rather, it is meant to assess the progress the child has made in his or her learning. We, therefore, urge all students, teachers, parents and all other stakeholders to avoid any attempt to cheat in order to have an advantage over other students”.  GNECC further underscored the need for the West African Examinations

Bece Students 2019 The 2019 B.E.C.E officially began on June 10 Some 62 foreign students have been stopped from sitting the Basic Education Certificate Examination underway across the country. The students, Nigerians and Togolese, were stopped after authorities within the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region found, a Ghanaian headteacher had allegedly registered them for the one-week exams. Innocent Agblevor, the headteacher of a private school, Kekeli Preparatory school in Aflao has been arrested, the MCE for Ketu South, Elliot Edem Agbenorwu said. The MCE explained to JoyNews Correspondent Ivy Setordjie, the foreign pupils mainly from Nigeria and Togo, attended a Togo-based Faith Mission school from JHS1 to JHS 3. But they were registered as Ghanaian pupils without any cumulative records detailing their academic history, the MCE for Ketu South said. Elliot Edem Agbenorwu called their registration a “sabotage of government policy.” The Nana Akufo-Addo administration ha

@Adutwum5 Dr Adutwum said all students will go to SHS as long as they pass their English and maths papers The Deputy Education Minister, Osei Yaw Adutwum has announced there will be no cut-off point for candidates sitting this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Dr Adutwum who is in charge of Basic and Secondary Education made the revelation after some candidates in Chereponi expressed concern the conflict there would impact their performance as they have lost many contact hours. In an interview with Joy News’ Gifty Andoh Appiah who was in Chereponi, the candidates pleaded with the feuding factions to bring the conflict to an end so they could prepare for their final exams. However, speaking on the Pulse on Joy New, the deputy minister said no student will be denied senior high school education because they could not make a certain grade as was previously the case. “I saw in your interview at Chereponi where students were complaining that because now we have

Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Seyram Alhassan has donated over 1000 stationery to final year students writing the BECE in her constituency. She made the donation to various school heads while encouraging the students to study hard in order to pass with flying colours. A total of 517,332 candidates from 16,871 public and private basic schools nationwide will this morning begin the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The week-long examination was initially slated for Monday, June 3 to Friday June 7 but the Ghana Education Service (GES) rescheduled the date to the present one. In a statement the MP stated, "l pray that God should grant you all a retentive memory so that you can reproduce whatever you have studied effectively and efficiently. It is my fervent wish that God also see you all through your final examination at the basic education level". Madam Lydia thus advised the candidates to stay away from "'substances' th