Tag: Academic
South Africa’s tertiary institutions to end 2020 academic year in February 2021
As the risk of COVID-19 still remains, South Africa's tertiary institutions' 2020 academic year will only be completed in 2021, Higher Education, Science and...
UK students get higher GCSE results in disrupted academic year
GCSE students in Britain have received higher grades Thursday as the number of those achieving the top mark and the passing grade both surged.
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Brazilian president enacts law to make academic year more flexible amid pandemic
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday enacted a law to exempt schools from having to meet a minimum number of school days amid the...
AkooBooks Audio Platform features Time With David
AkooBooks Audio is proud to bring archives of material from award-winning journalist and renowned interviewer, David Ampofo’s Time With David, to listeners. Time With...
Ghanaian schools reschedule academic year due to COVID-19
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Ghanaian education minister, said here Thursday schools in the country will not be made to resume fully so long as...
COVID-19: University of Ghana appeals to students to keep visitors out
Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic and Students Affairs, University of Ghana, has appealed to students of the institution to keep visitors...
A serious malaise in the relations between Paris and Rabat
The relations between Morocco and France which have always been very strong and trust-based are suffering a serious chill.
The relationship between Morocco and France...
Students asked to Consider Discipline as way of Academic Excellence
Superintendent Samuel Ntosoh, the Builsa District Police Commander, has urged senior high school students to see discipline as a tool for academic excellence.
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Academic Success is Not Limited to Poor Family Background
Dr Kwabena Opoku–Adusei, Director of the Kintampo College of Health, has advised students not to allow their indigent family backgrounds to deter them from...
Nestle Milo Encourages Academic Excellence
Nestlé Milo has affirmed its commitment to continuously promote academic excellence by recognizing and rewarding hundreds of brilliant candidates for their performances in the...
GHS Provides Food Supplement To Girls In Bawku
About 2,458 containers of food supplement containing “Iron plus Folic Acid” are being given to girls in the Bawku area to support and build...
Kumaca Swings Back to Academic Work
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Checks by Ultimate News reveal that the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) in Kumasi has resumed full academic activities.
The Co-Educational Senior High...
Proposal To Return Mission/Unit Schools Shout Down
Alhaji Mohammed Haroun, Northern Regional Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), has shot down proposals to return Mission/Unit schools to the Mission/Units, saying that...
DVLA Offer Tertiary Students Opportunity To Learn How To Drive
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has introduced a programme dubbed: “Tertiary Drive” (TertDrive), to afford tertiary students the opportunity to learn how...
200 Sporting Talents Battle For Honours At Sports Festival
The Sports Festival held at the Kaneshie Sports Complex and the Dansoman campus of the school, witnessed over 200 sporting talents to battle for...
DEOC To Enhance Students Enrollment
The West Mamprusi District (WMD) Education Oversight Committee (DEOC), has resolved to supply school uniforms and writing materials to beneficiaries of the Complementary Basic...
Coronats Hands Over Headmaster’s Bungalow
The Keta Business College old students Association popularly known as the ‘Coronats’ has inaugurated and handed over a five bedroom headmaster’s bungalow to the...
Graduate Students must lead public policies in Ghana
According to him the association exists as an advocacy group and needs a leader who is an advocate. A leader who has the clout...
Lectures asked to avoid ‘academic galamsey’
He defined “Academic galamsey” as lecturers teaching in more than one tertiary institution on part-time bases.
Speaking at the maiden Professor John Evans Atta Mills...
UEW wants involvement in academic Calendar Adjustment
This is to help the university arrange and align its sandwich programmes to suit the academic calendar so that more GES staff were enrolled...
Enactus Radford changes trash into poll into treasure
Their experience does not only give students an opportunity to put to practice the knowledge gained from the classroom but to learn relevant skills...
Raymond Atuguba can be best described as an academic lawyer
He has clearly explained his motivation for expatiating on the Ramadan-Nimako Decision by the Supreme Court, and so it is rather absurd for Dr....
Technical University Charged To Re-orient Their Staff, Students
Those institutions must also re-orient their staff, students and auxiliaries to the new culture that comes with their new status, he remarked at the...
Takoradi Polytechnic inducts 2,302 news students
Professor Frank John Eshun, Rector of the Takoradi Polytechnic has called on students to eschew laziness and other negative tendencies that would prevent them...
Lecturer urges traditional areas to establish education trust funds
He said such funds could have “inter-generational effect” and transform the socio-economic status of these areas.
Dr Gatsi who gave the advice when he launched...
Academic Leadership training phase two takes off
The two day workshop organized by the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and funded by the Carnegie Corporation in New York was attended...
Pan Africa Congress Legacy Project launched
Among other outcomes, the Project aims to promote the ideals of great Pan Africanists through the distribution of books and literature.
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Professor Adei’s unguarded statement about MPs was unfortunate
They do scrutinize loan agreements, existing laws and work on bills emanating from the executive arm of government for passage into laws. Sometimes they...
Alarming rate of tutors who use forged certificates to teach
Teaching is a noble and enviable job. It has to be jealously protected and preserved against the invasion by charlatans. It is never...
Jukwaidankrom Youth Association award best students
The awards were presented to the deserving students during the celebration of the 1st Anniversary of the Association over the weekend.
Two best students were...