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  By:brightwebtv.com/Nana asare barimah.       First degree will soon be the minimum requirement for teaching at any of the country’s education system, Prof Kwesi Yankah, Minister of Tertiary Education, has been reported as saying. According to a state-owned Ghana News Agency, the move is part of the Government’s …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Nana asare barimah     The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reiterated its caution to teachers against corporal punishment. Mr Gideon Tsawodzi, the Volta Regional Guidance and Counselling Coordinator said, the Service had banned caning in private and public primary and secondary schools and will not defend any teacher …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright agyapong. The National Teaching Council (NTC) has released the results of the maiden teacher licensure examination. Out of the 28,757 teachers who wrote the examination, 21,297, representing 74 per cent, passed, while 7,472 failed.     The results of 26 candidates have also been withheld pending the completion …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GHNACOPS) has warned that over four hundred thousand (400,000) untrained teachers are set to be laid off by September 2019, following government’s insistence of continuing with the teacher licensure examination.   The Council in a press release issued and copied …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku Members of the Coalition of Double Track Teachers (CDTT), have vowed to hit the streets to demand for their salary arrears.   In the letter signed by the general Secretary of the Coalition, Isaac Kobina Ansah, the members of CDTT indicated that the government after posting them …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku Dr Mrs Evelyn Owusu Oduro, the Executive Secretary of the National Teaching Council (NTC), has said with the coming into force of teacher licensing, persons not registered by the Council would not be able to teach in public or private schools in the country.   She said …

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government is clearing all arrears, accrued between 2013 and 2016, owed teachers with respect to travel allowances, transfer grants and overtime allowances.According to President Akufo-Addo, “Presently, government is no longer accruing arrears. We are putting in place measures to ensure that this …

  By:bright Agyapong Parents whose children return from schools with signs of them being canned are at liberty to deal ruthlessly with the teachers involved.     Director of the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) , Ivy Kumi, who gave this charge insists canning students …

  Ghanaian teachers in public basic schools are “criminals” because “they do not teach” yet take their salaries and send their children to private schools, a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has said.That attitude of Ghanaian teachers, he said, is …

By Nana As are Baaah District Chief Executive for Central Tongu Thomas Moore Zonyrah has bemoan what he says is the increasing numbers of teachers dedicating time that is supposed to be spent with students to sports betting. The phenomenon according to him was affecting contact hours and hence impacting …