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Graphic Online BY: Doreen Andoh 30.5k Shares 705 The government has released more than 22 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitary items for distribution to pupils, students and staff of private and public schools in the country. The distribution of the PPE forms part of measures to safeguard the health of pupils and teachers and also protect them against contracting COVID-19 in school. Briefing The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, said this at the Minister's Briefing — a government platform to provide updates o...

  The UN family in Ghana, particularly Agencies working in education have joined the education fraternity to celebrate this year’s International Day of Education, which is in January. The day was instituted three years ago by the United Nations General Assembly, inviting Member States, international and regional organizations and civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders “to continue to give consideration to enhancing international cooperation in support of the efforts of all Member States towards the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4i.” In a press r...

Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Director-General, Ghana Education Service (GES) Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has revealed that 10million face masks have been distributed to schools after the reopening, in order to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus. He stated also that that 9.9million hand sanitizers have been distributed. Addressing the media on Thursday, January 28, Prof Opoku-Amankwa gave the breakdown of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that have been distributed to the schools nationwide. “Face mask, 10 million, Hand ...

  In September 2019, when the academic year began, it took off smoothly albeit challenges with the placement of first year students under the Computerised School Selections and Placement System (CSSPS). All went well in the country until March 11, 2020, when Ghana recorded the first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; the academic year was never to be, as government on March 15, 2020 ordered the closure of all educational institutions in the country in line with measures to contain the pandemic. Closure of schools Initially, the closure did not include final year students of the sen...

+ Since March 2020 when Ghana had its share of the affliction occasioned by the deadly global pandemic, the COVID-19, over 3.4 million Kindergarten (KG Two) to Basic Four primary school pupils have found themselves out of school. The outbreak of COVID-19 led to the closure of over 25,487 primary schools in the country, with children now unable to attend face-to-face instruction in a classroom environment. And since management of education in the country could not immediately envisage when school would re-open, it was important to put in place an alternative learning programme to keep the chil...