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Minority won’t support approval of public universities bill 2020 -Haruna Iddrisu

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Haruna Iddrisu Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, says his side of the House will not support approval of the Public Universities Bill 2020 which is currently before the House for approval. Parliament’s Education Committee has recommended that the house approves the bill. Various teacher union’s including University …

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All universities will reopen as directed – VCs assure Akufo-Addo

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Vice-Chancellors of all public universities in the country have assured President Akufo-Addo that, contrary to some media reports, all universities will resume academic work on June 15, 2020, as ordered directed by government. Addressing the President at the Jubilee House, when they paid a courtesy call on him, …

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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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Public Universities not ready for ‘Free SHS’ graduates in 2020

Public Universities not ready for ‘Free SHS’ graduates in 2020 By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah First batch of graduates of government’s Free Senior High School programme will have a hard time securing admission into public universities in 2020, especially the University of Ghana. This is according to a lecturer at the Sociology …

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4 Public Universities to be renamed after Rawlings, Busia, two others

  by:brightwebtv.com/Nana asare barimah         Four public universities will be renamed if a draft bill from the Education Ministry makes it to Parliament and is passed in its current form. In the draft bill, University for Development Studies, for instance, is renamed after the first President of …

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Gov’t to introduce centralized admissions system for universities

  By Nana Asare Barimah The government intends to centralize admissions into public tertiary institutions with the introduction of a placement system. A 9-member committee in its 2018 Tertiary Education Policy Document proposed the new system among others to the Education Ministry. The system dubbed the Centralized University Admissions and …

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