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The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has backed the proposal by the government to impose a 1.75% levy on all electronic transactions, starting from January, 2022. NUGS believes that the e-levy is a ‘step in the right direction,’ as it will help the government generate revenue to tackle youth unemployment in the country. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, the student advocacy group said, the country is saddled with a pile of growing debts. Therefore, government’s plans to reduce the country’s huge debt profile through the e-levy is a welcome decision. ”According to the government, e-levy…

Pupils of Sakorit KG and primary school in the Talensi District of the Upper East region lack furniture forcing them to sit on the bare floor for learning activities. This came to the fore when Dagbon FM’s reporter, Abdul Sammed Gurundari visited the school on Monday, November 15, 2021. Gurundari reported that pupils were lying on their stomachs to write from the board. The school authorities, however, refused to speak on record because they claimed they needed permission from their employer before doing so.A three-classroom block is hosting six different classes. Each room has been partitioned with KG 1 &…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says 571,894 candidates are sitting for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) commencing Monday, November 15. Information from the Council sighted by Ghananewsprime.com reveals that out of the total figure, about 287,605 candidates are males whiles 284,289 are females. The number of participating schools, according to WAEC, stands at 18,028. Also, about 2,158 examination centres are hosting this year’s candidates. The Ashanti Region presented the largest number of candidates sitting for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations. As 111,432 students sit for the exams in the Ashanti Region, the Greater Accra Region presented 105,539.…

An education think tank, Africa Education Watch, is calling for external investigations to ascertain the actual source of leaks in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). Speaking to journalists, the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, said “the first step in blocking the perennial leaks is identifying its source.” “It is on the back of this that we are requesting an external investigation to ascertain the actual source of leaks in this year’s WASSCE papers.” “This external investigation will not only give a clue about the exact source of leaks within WAEC’s questions value chain…

The Ministry of Health has said that health training institutions at all levels, will soon be upgraded to run a 4-year bachelor’s degree programme to meet the changing health care needs of the country. According to the Rector of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Hannah Akua Oparebea Acquah, the idea is to ensure that a bachelor’s degree becomes the minimum qualification for practicing nurses and midwives while fading out diploma and certificate holders. She was speaking on behalf of the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu at the 14th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Conference of Heads of Health Training…

The Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has announced that Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta will present the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government for the 2022 financial year on November 17.The Majority Leader announced this on Tuesday when Parliament resumed sitting. The Finance Ministry had earlier set November 15 as the date to present the budget before the House. But announcing the new date, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu advised the legislators to commence scrutiny of the various allocations to facilitate the passage of the budget. “…Ideally a Parliament should spend about eight weeks in interrogating budgets [but] we don’t have the luxury…

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An International Trade Consultant, Maame Awinador Kanyirige, has said prevailing economic conditions in Ghana make it difficult for business startups to survive in the country. She stated that the conditions in the natural resource-rich West African nation make it difficult for fledgling entrepreneurs and even already setup Ghanaian businesses to compete with their foreign counterparts. She was reacting to a call by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to young graduates to look to entrepreneurship because the government payroll is full. Mr Ofori-Atta had revealed that 60 per cent of Ghana’s revenue is spent on salaries and remuneration for workers on the…

The Member of parliament for Kintampo North  Constituency and a Member of the Education Committee of Parliament , Joseph Kwame Kumah has advocated a nationalistic attitude by government towards the provision of developmental projects and the handling of projects such as educational infrastructure completed by the previous government to enable the country benefit from resources invested in such projects . Joseph Kwame Kumah made the comment when Members of the Minority on the Committee on Education of Parliament inspected the Community Senior High School E- Block at Apesua in Yilo Krobo in the Eastern region which had been completed a year…

“How do we become entrepreneurs when our education system has not prepared us” – Student questions Finance Minister A Level 200 student of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), Priscilla Quaye says the Ghanaian education system does not prepare students to venture into entrepreneurship. She posits that the Ghanaian youth have not been made critical thinkers as the education system expects students to just ‘chew and pour’ and nothing more. Reacting to the speech delivered by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta at the graduation ceremony for students of UPSA, where he urged them to pursue entrepreneurship…

Teacher trainees give gov’t Three Weeks ultimatum over unpaid allowances The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana has given government a three-week ultimatum to pay all allowances owed them for the past six months. In a statement jointly signed by President of the Association Dembie Abdul-Manan and General Secretary Abaidoo Felix, the Association has petitioned the Education Minister and Director General of Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to look into the issue. The Association also expressed determination to take necessary steps to get government to redeem its pledge made to trainee teachers prior to the 2016 elections. Restoration of the allowance…

NPP Government to cancelled Nursing and Teacher Trainees Allowance  The  implementation of students allowance has been a beneficiary and it support students learning in the country, according to a lot of research and thorough investigation made indicate that Nursing and Teacher Trainees Allowance will be cancelled in 2022 excluding feeding component, feeding component will still be released to the various colleges and institutions to prepare meal for the Trainees. Government has made it clear to the public that the country is going through many difficulties in terms of financial issues due to this, the government find it difficult…