School Reopening for SHS 1 students postponed to 21 March
First-year Senior High School (SHS) students across the country are expected to report to school from Thursday, 18 March to Sunday, 21 March 2021, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced. First-year SHS students across the country were initially scheduled to report to school on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. However, the GES has postponed the reopening date to enable “the students and parents have ample time to prepare for school” while the management of the schools also “prepare to receive them.” A statement issued by the GES signed by its Head, Public Relations Unit, Cassandra Twum Ampofo, said: “Management has also noted that some students have not yet enrolled and the extension will give these students the opportunity to do so as well”. “Academic work will commence fully on Monday 22 March 2021.” The statement further disclosed that second- and third-year SHS students will go on mid-semester break from Monday, 8 March to Thursday, 11 March 2021. It added: “The mid-semester break is not compulsory and, so, students who wish to stay on campus must be fed and adhere to school rules.” Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
GES JUSTIN: Feed yourself with Facts about this year’s Computerized School Placement–GES
The Ghana Education Service releases an update on how Junior High School Graduates should wait for their school placement. Below are the information posted on GES official Facebook platform. wrote: Whiles you patiently wait for the release of Placement, feed yourself with #Facts about this year’s #Computerized #School #Placement. What you need to know Question 1 I missed out on all my five Choices, what do I do???? Answer However, in a press release issued by Ghana Education Service (GES) says coronavirus was the cause for the delay Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Monitor your children’s cartoons; Homosexuals are after them – Sam Pyne tells Parents
NPP Ashanti Regional Secretary, Sam Pyne has advised parents to keep a vigilant eye on their children because homosexuals are targeting the children. He disclosed that the LGBTQI advocates have devised means to attract children into homosexual acts. He revealed that the homosexual right activists have included homosexual characters in cartoons to influence the young ones. Sam Pyne advised parents to monitor their children closely and ensure they don’t watch homosexual cartoons or movies. ”Parents must monitor the kind of cartoons that they allow their children to watch because they are creating some characters where women become so intimate with themselves that the children, in their view, will think that is no wrong”, he said on Peace FM’s ”Kokrokoo”. The NPP Regional Secretary also called on the nation not to encourage nor accept the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) group and their activities. Ghana Guardian Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Good News for all senior High School Graduates With D7, E8 and F9 [Check Details]
Most senior High School graduates has been suffering because of their results that they get after school. Some of them cannot go to tertiary institutions because of their results. The last grade that tertiary institutions in Ghana accept is C6. So most of the SHS graduates cannot go to tertiary because they are having D7, E8, and F9 in their WASSCE results. But there is good news for Senior High School graduates that have D7 E8 and F9 in their results. Proper management is ongoing to accept these graduates to pursue education into higher level. In Ghana The West Africa Examination Council recognise D7 as a pass mark but this grade is not accepted in the various tertiary institutions to pursue a degree programme. Proper management is still ongoing to pave way for senior high school graduates with D7 E8 and F9 to also have access to pursue education into higher level. According to the Chairman of the University Administrators in Ghana, Professor Kwesi Yankah , all Senior High school graduates with D7 should be given the chance to further their education depending on the field the student wants to pursue. For instance, a student may get one D7 but will be abandoned to go to university, meanwhile, some students with C6 through out have been given admission. This is the time Ghanaians should react fast and depend on the programme the student wants to pursue. Professor Kwasi Yankah stated this at a virtual Graduation ceremony at one of the renowned universities in Ghana that can be located in the Bono Region. We are hoping that Senior High School graduates with D7, E8, and F9 will be given admission into our various tertiary institutions soon. Please share, like and comment on this article. Thank you for reading this article. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Documents you need to present to the exam centre as shortlisted applicant for GES promotion
The 2021 GES promotion exams come off on the 25th and 26th of February. However, Shortlisted applicants are urged to go to their various examination centers with the under listed documents: ID Card Last Promotion Letter ( Original) Evidence of application (online print out) Master Certificate (Original) for those entering with Masters/PhD. Meanwhile, persons who hold Masters Certificate should have been obtained after the applicants’ last promotion date and the certificate date should be on or before 2017. For all the grades, candidates should have been last promoted on or before 2015. Candidates who might have bean shortlisted but fails to meet the eligibility criteria as advertised will be restrained from sitting for the examination. –listengh– Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
90% of SHSs connected to free Wi-Fi – Ursula
Ghana’s Minister-designate of Communication and digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that 90 per cent of Senior High Schools in the country have been connected to free Wi-Fi. The challenge now, according to Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, is “how to replicate that in the junior high schools as the Education Ministry seeks to introduce blended learning (a mixture of virtual learning and face to face) and, so, we will need to put in place the infrastructure to support such. It is one of our priority areas.” The Ablekuma West MP disclosed this when she appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, 15 February 2021 and reiterated same in a Facebook post. Speaking at the opening of the government’s free tertiary Wi-Fi project in Accra in November 2020, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia noted that all 260 District Education Offices and 46 Colleges of Education in the country will also be beneficiaries of the government’s ‘free Wi-Fi for schools’ project. The project is intended to broaden the scope of education, Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), research, and knowledge acquisition in schools. ClassFMonline Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: +233555568093
NIB arrests mathematical sets supplier after Opoku Prempeh’s vetting
The National Investigative Bureau (NIB) has arrested the CEO of the Bluegrass Group Ltd, Kwadwo Darko-Mensah, also known as Onasis. According to reports, the suspect is to assist in an ongoing investigation in regards to the procurement of some 853,000 pieces of mathematical sets. Mr Darko-Mensah is said to be a local agent of an international company, Cornfield Group Ltd which was mandated to deliver a total of 853,000 pieces of math sets at a cost of ¢75 per unit. The contract which was awarded by the Education Ministry in September 2019 failed to pull through when the products were neither delivered on schedule or in full. Local online portal, Mynewsgh, reported that 853,000 mathematical sets were supposed to be given to students siting for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). However, due to the WASSCE timeline, the contract was treated as “urgent” and sole-sourced in September 2019 to Mr Darko-Mensah’s company without any form of bidding. The Bluegrass Limited was also granted a free tax waiver of $3.6 million by the government on the recommendation of the then Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh and was subsequently approved by Parliament. But further investigations revealed that, no 2020 WASSCE student received any mathematical set from government. An independent policy and research institute, the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) then questioned government why the mathematical sets which were sole-sourced at a “high price” were never delivered on time for the very purpose it was tagged as “urgent”. The Institute also criticised the validity of the sole sourcing procedure adopted. At ¢75 per mathematical set, the total contract came to ¢63,975,675. Yet, Blueglass Limited failed to deliver within the agreed time. Blueglass Limited was said to have later issued PR-statements, announcing it had delivered “first consignment” without stating any figure, even long after the WASSCE was over. Vetting Opoku Prempeh on Bluegrass Ltd Being nominated by President Akufo-Addo for the Energy Ministry, Dr Opoku-Prempeh appeared before, Parliament’s Appointments Committee for vetting on Friday. When queried on the issue of the Mathematical sets contract and the arrest and detention of CEO of Bluegrass Ltd Kwadwo Darko-Mensah, the then Education Minister said, “I didn’t know him from anywhere.” Myjoyonline Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: +233555568093
GES directs schools to tidy up their environment ahead of school re-opening
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8000 teachers fail licensure exams
Over eight thousand teachers have failed the mandatory Licensure Examination (NTLE) representing 30.75% of the total number who sat for the test. A statement by the National Teaching Council on Monday, January 4 said 27,455 candidates sat for the exams. According to the NTC, 19.013 candidates representing 69.3% passed the exams with the remaining results withheld pending investigation. The council has called on all candidates to check their results from the NTC online portal at exam.ntc.gov.gh by using either their pins given during registration or their examination index numbers using their phone numbers. Candidates were also advised to print their provisional certificates after checking their phone numbers. The NTLE was introduced by the government in 2019 backed by the Education Act of 2008, Act 778, with the first-ever teacher licensure exams taking place in September 2018. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
University Graduate Teachers Threaten to Demonstrate Over GES Insincerity
According to some aggrieved graduate teachers, on the 2nd November 2020, the GES posted a letter on their social media handle (Facebook) indicating the recruitment of University Graduate Teachers. Before the release of the letter, the Education Minister and other major staff like the Education Director granted interviews from the media indicating when the postings of the University Graduate Teachers will be released. They made it clear that the postings of the University Graduate Teachers will be released before the 31st of December, 2020. But as at today, it hasn’t happen. The GES has turned blind eyes to what they said they were going to do and they can’t even tell anyone why. Not even a statement to explain the delay of the postings. Nothing. This has kept a lot of University Graduate Teachers in suspense and they are planning to protest against what they believe to be a plot of deceit. They believe the whole recruitment process was a plot employed by the Ministry of Education for them to be voted for. Communicating with many University Graduate Teachers, they believe that the only language our leaders understand is “demonstration and protest” and they are ready to haunt the ministry with it as they are not ready to do the right thing. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications or call 0555568093