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18 Mar

Reopening Date For SHS 1 Students Not Postponed – GES

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Reopening Date For SHS 1 Students Not Postponed - GES The Ghana Education Service (GES) has shot down reports that the reopening date for first-year Senior High Students has been rescheduled again. Per an earlier communique, the freshers are supposed to be in school starting tomorrow. The service had earlier postponed the reopening from Wednesday, 10 March 2021 to Thursday, March 18, 2021. “Management had decided that the reopening of schools for first-year students should be rescheduled for Thursday, March 18 through to Sunday, March 21, 2021” a press release signed by Anthony Boateng, the Deputy Director-General of GES indicated.…

27 Sep

Schools In Oti Benefit From 3rd Disinfection Exercise

Kakra NunuNewsCOVID-19, GES, MoE, Oti Refion, Zoomlion

Public and private basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Oti Region have benefited from the third phase of the on-going national disinfection and fumigation exercise. The exercise—a collaboration between the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service (GES) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited—was in response to President Nana Addo’s Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive for basic and SHSs to be reopened on October 5 for Form Two students. The exercise, which came off last Friday, was also aimed at protecting the schools’ environs from the highly infectious coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Speaking to journalists during the exercise in his school, the Headmaster of…

27 Sep

Third Phase… School Heads Advocate For Quarterly Disinfection Exercise

Kakra NunuNewsCOVID-19, GES, MoE, Zoomlion

Heads of both basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Ashanti Region have called on the government to consider factoring into the programmes of both the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) a quarterly disinfection exercise in schools. This, according to them, would not only fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but also protect the students from contracting it. The heads of schools made the call on Thursday, 25 September, 2020 during the third phase of the nationwide disinfection and fumigation exercise in basic and SHSs in the Ashanti Region. Speaking to journalists, the Headmaster of…

22 Sep

Shatta Wale Gets Featured In The Approved Creative Arts Textbook By GES

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Award-winning dancehall musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah who is widely known as Shatta Wale has been featured in the approved Creative Arts textbook by the Ghana Education Service. This comes as a great achievement considering how this would have a positive impact on Ghanaian kids who inspire to be a great musician like him. The feature gave a short story about him and it also added some popular songs from him. Check it out below; Trending stories on Wontumionline.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUcuvVGi3Y&feature=youtu.be

21 Sep

GES Begins Selection Of Schools Into SHSs, Parents Advised To Guide Wards

Jackson Odom KpakpoNewsGES

GES Begins Selection Of Schools Into SHSs, Parents Advised To Guide Wards The Ghana Education Service (GES) has stated that selection of Senior high schools for candidates who just completed their BECE begins today, Monday, September 21, 2020. The Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) allows GES to place qualified candidates who sit for the BECE at the Junior High School level into any public senior high, technical or vocational school. For many, though the CSSPS is embattled with many challenges, it seems to have instilled some level of sanity, fairness and ease into the admission of students into…

30 Aug

GES Postpones 2020/2021 Academic Year For Basic Schs & SHS To Jan 2021

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GES Postpones 2020/2021 Academic Year For Basic Schs & SHS To Jan 2021 The Ghana Education Service (GES) according to the President of Ghana has postponed the 2020/2021 academic year to January 2021.This was made known by the President of Ghana in his 16th address to the country. This according to the President is to ensure that the Service works on proper adjustments is made to the curriculum to ensure that nothing is lost from the forfeited year. He indicated that relevant dispositions will also be made so that the presence, at the same time, in school of all streams…