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2020 licensure exams to be held this day

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File photo: A teacher This year’s Ghana Teacher Licensure Examinations (GTLE) is scheduled to be held on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2. It will be the fourth after the examinations were first staged in 2018. A statement issued by the Executive Secretary of the …

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Coronavirus: Online exams for universities not approved yet – Education Ministry

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Education Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has indicated that deliberations are still ongoing to determine the best mode of assessing academic work and varied options have come up for discussion at the stakeholder meetings. According to him, “We won’t wait and be confronted with something we …

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Mid-semester exams at Kumasi Technical University in limbo over TUTAG strike

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Students of Kumasi Technical University have begun feeling the brunt of the ongoing strike action by the Technical Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG). Mid-semester examinations scheduled for this week, October 21, remain uncertain. This is after administrators of technical universities in Ghana joined lecturers on a strike that …

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Mass failure again: 128 out of 1820 pass Sch. of law entrance exams

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Another monumental failure has been recorded at the Ghana School of law as only 128 students out of the staggering 1,820 candidates who sat for this year’s entrance exams for the school could pass. The exams was made up of 20 objectives section and two written …

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20-year-old gets HIV ‘in exchange’ for exams fees

  play videoA man, twice her age, offered to help but demanded a ‘night under the sheets’   My Status, a JoyNews’ Hotline Documentary, tells the story of a 20-year-old girl who became HIV positive after she had unprotected sex with a man who promised to pay for her exam …

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70 UCC final year students sacked from exams hall over fees 

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah About 70 final year Distance Education students of University of Cape Coast (UCC) at Atefuah Senior High School Campus in Akyem Oda are exasperated over their sacking from examination Hall for owing varied amounts of School fees. Some of affected students owe as little as GHC200 …

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Keta municipal basic schools to “STILL ” write exams on the chalkboard

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Basic Schools in the Keta, Ketu South and the Anloga Municipalities/Districts shall write their Third Term Examinations on chalkboards. This is a directive from the Municipal Director of Education after headteachers allegedly betrayed the municipality by charging higher examination fees last term. This information was …

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BECE candidate attempts suicide shortly after exams

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   A candidate taking part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Builsa North District of the Upper East Region on Wednesday attempted suicide by hanging just minutes after the Information Communication Technology (ICT) exams paper. The minor whose name has been withheld for …

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BECE candidate delivers baby shortly after exams Posted By Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy – June 13, 2019

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   One female candidate of the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Sissala East has given birth to a bouncing baby girl right after writing the first paper, English, on Monday. The candidate (name withheld) got into labour immediately the examination ended and was rushed to …

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Woman gives birth, sits exams 30 minutes later

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah A woman in Ethiopia has taken her exams in a hospital bed just 30 minutes after giving birth. Almaz Derese, 21, who is from Metu in western Ethiopia, had hoped to sit the tests before her baby was born, but the secondary school exams were postponed because …

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