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The Executive Secretary of the National Council for   Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has said the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has outlived its usefulness and will soon be scrapped from the educational system. Dr Prince Hamid Armah says “The nomenclature called BECE will be scrapped totally…an exam will be used to do placements going forward. A criterion reference system will be used as BECE has outlived its usefulness in this country,” he said on Accra-based Starr FM, Thursday. According to him, there is enough evidence to support the need to introduce a new approach to testing the quality of teaching that pupils receive. Source: Myjoyonline.com

Cassandra Ampofo PROHead of Public Relations at GES, Cassandra Twum Ampofo A total of 122,706 candidates who qualified to enter the senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions but have not been placed, now have the chance to do self-placement. By this system, a candidate who misses out on the placement under the Computerised School Selections Placement System (CSSPS) and is required to go to the self-placement platform on the cssps.gov.gh or cssps.org to select his or her preferred school from a list of schools provided. The Head of the Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Cassandra Twum Ampofo, who spoke to the Daily Graphic explained that there were enough vacancies to be filled by all the candidates. She was speaking on the aftermath of the placement of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates under the CSSPS in Accra yesterday (Monday September 9). Candidates placed A total of 490,000 candidates were expec...

General News of Monday, 9 September 2019 Source:  www.ghanaweb.com 2019-09-09 President of NAGRAT, Eric Angel Cabonu Teacher organizations over the years appear to be at one point or the other at the forefront in a battle, not only for the soul of education but also for the interest of their members. Historical records of strike actions embarked on by Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) indicate that teachers’ arrears are somewhat overlooked over time; a major contributing factor to these strikes. 2006 strike action The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) embarked on immense strike action in 2006 at the beginning of the 2006/2007 academic year to demand that they are paid the same salaries as nurses and doctors who have similar qualifications. The strike action which was supposed to last for seven days exceeded the stipulated period for weeks due to Government and the Ghana Education Service’ inability to resolve issues...

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology campus in Kumasi has effective today, September 3 been declared a security zone, following intelligence suggesting possible disturbances. Some alumni of the University, according to the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC), are said to be instigating their members and some students to engage in acts “that will disturb academic work and peace on campus”. The decision is believed to have been triggered by a warning issued by some ‘Concerned Katangees’ over the conversion of the all-male University Hall into a mixed hall of residence. The group on August 26 claimed KNUST was sitting “on a time bomb” as authorities and stakeholders have failed to resolve the issues surrounding the conversion of the all-male hall to a mixed one. According to them, though they have used all necessary procedures and legal processes, “we can unequivocally put it across that, most of the important stakeholders we appealed to have done nothi...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disclosed that The Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for Senior High Schools (SHS) will be released by Friday, September 6, 2019. Students will be able to check the schools and the batches they have been placed under the free Senior High School policy from Friday, the GES stated. Director of Communications at the Ministry of Education, Mr Vincent Ekow Assafuah, who disclosed this in an interview, said iterations are being done ahead of the release of the placements. He said, the placement would start with 346,094, which is the number of students who completed SHS, while management finalizes actual vacancies available in SHSs. That number is far less than the 517,331 candidates, made up of 363,602 males and 253,721 females, who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). He announced a 10% quota for students who attended public junior high schools (JHS).