The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has directed that the academic calendar of public schools be reverted from the semester system to the trimester system. The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Thursday, January 13 announced new dates for reopening of public schools from kindergarten to senior high schools. The dates implied that all basic schools would run a semester system, a decision which came as a surprise to major teacher unions. Therefore, on the eve of reopening of schools across the country, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Assocaition of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Coalition of Concenerd teachers, Ghana (CCT-GH) and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) – forming the Unions in Education – kicked against the move citing no knowledge about the decision. “Such a major policy change should have attracted a wide consultation and therefore find both the pronouncement and the document offensive and takes exception to them...
The Assemblymember for Teberebe Electoral Area Mr. Manesseh Obour also known as Teacher Obour has sponsored the top 4 performing students of Teberebe Electoral Area in this year's BECE to further their Education through his charity organization. Being interviewed on space fm a local radio station in Tarkwa, the assembly member said he being an assembly member and also a teacher his priority is to make sure the needy but brilliant students in his electoral area get a better education.
The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal in Abuja has ordered that its interim order, restraining MultiChoice Nigeria Limited from increasing the DSTV tariff, be pasted at the firm’s “corporate headquarters or any known address of the branches of MultiChoice Nigeria Limited across Nigeria.”
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