Ex President Kuffour Hails Pres. Mills
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has hailed the commitment of President John Evans Atta Mills to invest in the education of the youth and said that would guarantee the country’s future.
Commenting on President Mills’s address to a parade of schoolchildren to mark the 53rd independence anniversary in which the President had assured the nation that the government would motivate teachers and provide the necessary condition to improve teaching and learning, former resident Kufuor said investing in children could “guarantee a responsible and brighter future for the country”.
He stressed that the country’s generation chain would be strengthened if it invested in youth development.
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Ghanaian Students to Access GlobalCampus Website
February 3, 2010 by G.O
Filed under Education, Headlines, International News, News
A Foreign social entrepreneur, Mr Maurizio de Franciscis, has introduced a new online system to help students in Ghana to realize and improve on their talents.
This was done in collaboration with the Association of International Students in Economics, Science and Commerce (AIESEC) Ghana, a student organization that promotes leadership development among the youth.
The website, ‘GlobalCampus’, is an online system that would enable students to get connected to universities and organizations worldwide. It is focused on helping individuals to improve upon their talents in every field.
It will also enable universities and organizations to know more about students during admission processes, as well as connecting the needs of universities to students across the world.
Schools in Ghana Can Now Register BECE online
GHANA NEWS – Schools in Ghana with internet connectivity can now register on-line for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) conducted by the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC).
This follows the introduction of an on-line registration procedure for the BECE last Monday after almost two decades of running the examination in the country.
The head of the Test Administration Department of WAEC, Mr Kweku Nyamekye-Aidoo, who made this known to Daily Graphic, said the on-line registration would be done alongside the old registration procedure (Batch Registration) which involved the registration of candidates in groups on Compact Discs.
Disappointed Law Students To Sue Ghana Law School
Law graduates of the University of Ghana, Legon, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) who were not admitted into the Ghana Law School are threatening legal action against the school.
The students could not be admitted because of a new quota system of admission implemented by the school.
Under the system the General Legal Council said it had allocated 100 places for University of Ghana law students, 80 for KNUST law students and 40 for foreign and external degree holders.
Early on in the year law students of the KNUST kicked against the quota system and subsequently petitioned the council to reconsider its decision.
Day of the Ghanaian Child marked in Accra
A Project Assistant of Right To Play, an international humanitarian non-governmental organization has called on parents to support their children to learn to keep the environment clean to enable them stay healthy at all times.
Miss Abenaa Anim-Adjei said environmental cleanliness plays a very important role in the socio-economic development of every nation and it was therefore necessary that children should learn from the grassroots. She made the call at the end of a two-hour Walk in Accra as part of activities marking this year’s ‘Day of the Ghanaian Child’ on Saturday. The Day which is celebrated throughout the country, was aimed at sensitizing children on the need to keep the environment clean and was under the theme ‘Cleanliness, Key to Survival’.
Participants of the Walk, which started from the Mamprobi Salvation Army School, went through the Tuesday Market to St. Mary’s Senior High School and back to the starting point.
The placard-bearing children engaged in various sporting activities and other games termed ‘Keep it Clean’, ‘Wash your Hands’ and ‘Garbage Collection’ after the Walk.
Miss Anim-Adjei expressed the hope that the children would imbibe the messages and impart them to their colleagues and parents to maintain a sound environment to stay healthy.
Source:GNA
Miss Ghana Canada supports Osu Children’s Home
Miss Ghana Canada, Bianca Bempong, has donated assorted clothing and some other items valued at Canadian $6,000 to the Osu Children’s Home at a ceremony in Accra on Monday.
Speaking in an interview with journalists, Miss Bianca Bempong disclosed that the donation forms part of her humanitarian activities as Miss Ghana Canada. She said as part of her numerous projects as Miss Ghana Canada, she chose to show care for women and children which explains why she has come to Ghana.
Receiving the items, Mrs Sharon Abbey, who stood in for the entire management of the Osu Children’s Home expressed her profound gratitude for the kind humanitarian gesture embarked upon by Miss Bempong.
She urged other organizations, individuals, philanthropists and corporate institutions to emulate the gesture to help the needy at the orphanage.
Microsoft to partner Ghana in ICT development
The Ministry of Education and the US-based Microsoft Corporation, on
Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build the
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) capacity of teacher
trainees in Ghana.
The MOU will also enable Microsoft to develop a software to support
teaching and learning in all schools.
The signing was in recognition of the importance of ICT in school development and teaching and learning.
Historical overview of Ghana
Despite being rich in mineral resources, and endowed with a good education system and efficient civil service, Ghana fell victim to corruption and mismanagement soon after independence in 1957.
In 1966 its first president and pan-African hero, Kwame Nkrumah, was deposed in a coup, heralding years of mostly-military rule. In 1981 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings staged his second coup.
Ghanaian Parents, Curriculum Nights & School Councils
By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Teacher, Brookview Middle School, Toronto
source: Joe Kingsley Eyiah
As I sat in Cafeteria of Brookview Middle School one night at the beginning of this school year among the staff and a large number of parents who had gathered for the school’s curriculum night I could count ONLY one or two Ghanaian parents present. Yet we have a good number of Ghanaian students at this school! At the entrance of the Cafeteria the executives of the school council were busily canvassing parents who showed up at the curriculum night for membership. It could be described as the most successful and well attended curriculum night at Brookview ever since I started teaching at this largely immigrant community school in Toronto-Canada, eight years ago. The administration and teachers of the school had prepared for the night. It was a big opportunity for parents to experience a “full day” of their child’s life at school and interact with the teachers of their child in both core and elective subjects. Parents were walked through the curriculum and expectations of Grades 6, 7 & 8 as prescribed by the Ontario Ministry of Education. They also had the opportunity to visit their child’s locker and socialize with other parents whose children also attend the same school with their own. It was a night to remember- happy that I could interact with some parents of the students I teach! But sad that many Ghanaian parents who ought to be at the school that night were missing out The questions that kept ringing in my ears were: Where were the Ghanaian parents who should have been at the curriculum night? Were they at work or at home? If they were at work couldn’t they have asked for permission to be away from work that night? If they were at home then my fears were more compounded by the unfortunate idea that most Ghanaians care less about their children’s education.
