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07/07/2013

BRAIN TEASER: Melusi forgot his pin code which was
of 5 digits, but luckily for him, he remembered some hints which can remind him of that password, here are those hints.

1. First digit is equal to the square of second digit.

2. Second plus 3rd digit are equal to 10.

3. 4th digit equal to the 2nd digit plus 1.

4. 5th plus 3rd digit make 14.

5. Sum of all the Five digit equals 30.

Whats the Pin Code? Exercise ur IQ..!

06/07/2013

Question!!! Only genius will get this right! Two birds in front of a bird, two birds
behind a bird,
one bird in the middle. How many birds are there?
a) 6
b) 3
c) 5
d) 7

18/09/2012

The Metro Mass Transit (MMT) is to provide buses to transport schoolchildren from Ayigbe Town to Weija, communities near Accra, to prevent them from using the Weija Dam site as a thoroughfare.

Officials of the MMT are scheduled to go to the area Monday, to ascertain the routes and challenges in the affected communities.

Deputy Transport Minister Ms Dzifa Attivor, who announced this when she addressed parents and guardians of pupils of Ayigbe Town, said the decision was to ensure that the children did not scale the fence around the Weija Dam.

Ms Attivor, who visited the dam site in the company of the the Chief Executive of Ga South Municipal Assembly, Mr Jerry Nii Akwei Thompson, and Ms Obuobi Darko-Opoku, aspiring parliamentary candidate for the yet-to-be created Weija Gbawe Constituency, however, expressed doubts about a six-year-girl being able to climb over the exit gate as captured in an earlier publication.

graphic.com.gh Friday, September 14, 2012, carried a report of how pupils from the Weija cluster of Schools risk their lives by, either squeezing through the metal fence wall of the dam or climbing over the wall, as a result of the absence of a footbridge over the Weija Lake, to give them access to school.

It is about 25 minutes to drive from Ayigbe Town to Weija through the Mallam-Kasoa road.

Showing a copy of the publication with a picture of a six-year-old girl climbing over one of the exit gates and other children scaling over the fence to school, Madam Attivor said that was very dangerous and needed to be brought to an end.

Madam Florence Ahotor, one of the parents thanked the government for the gesture and promised that they would ensure that that their children joined the bus rather than use the dam as a route to school.

Mr Akwei Thompson, who was highly worried about the publication, said there were reptiles in the bush where the children walk to school after scaling over the fence of the dam and wondered why some parents should allow their children to use that route.

He said a $69,406 budget for the construction of a-45 metre pedestrian (foot) steel bridge over the Weija tributary, under the Ga South Municipal Assembly Local Government Capacity Support Project Urban Development Grant 2012 work plan, was being considered.

He announced that work on this environmentally friendly steel bridge would commence before the end of the year.

Ms Obuobi Darko Opoku said lands had been acquired by the government to construct schools in the area to prevent the children from crossing over to Weija where most of the public schools are situated.

Before the Minister's visit, pupils from the Weija Cluster of Schools had appealed to the government to construct two bridges across the Weija Lake to give them access to their respective schools.

The schoolchildren, between the ages of four and 12, struggle to get to school following the closure of the only existing footbridge which facilitated their access to school.

The footbridge was closed on the orders of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing.

16/09/2012

Citi FM’s Eyewitness News Wins CIMG Radio Program of The Year!

Citi 97.3 FM’s News and Current Affairs programme Eyewitness News was adjudged Best Radio Programme of the Year for 2011 by the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana at a colourful event held on Saturday.

11/08/2012

Seven students of the Adidome Senior High School in the Volta Region have been suspended indefinitely for practising occultism in school.

The headmaster of the school, Elias Avor, confirmed this to Daily Guide. An occult grandmaster at the school disclosed that occultism in senior high schools across the country was real and prevalent.

The occultist, who is a first-year student of the Adidome SHS, made the revelation in a confession after the seven students were busted at their meeting ground. According to the student, he was initiated by one Mallam in Laterbiokoshie-Zongo, a suburb of Accra, along with 15 others before being admitted to the school.

He noted that the 16 of them were part of other occult groups scattered across senior high schools and tertiary institutions in the country.

He said they were scattered in schools in the Eastern, Greater Accra and the Volta regions while other groups could be found in other institutions.

According to Daily Guide sources in the school, the grandmaster was part of seven students who were busted by the Chaplain, Rev. Dzata, last Tuesday, July 31, 2012, around 6pm. Apparently, they were meeting behind the administration block while their mates were having supper at the dining hall.

The meeting was part of an initiation process which had started earlier that week.

He said the seven were in all black except two who were in white and orange. Out of the seven, three second-year students were being initiated while four were old members.

The leader of the four was a first-year student, the grandmaster. The remaining three were a third-year student and two second-year students who held various positions.

Since the school was vacating on Friday, August 3, 2012, the seven were on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, put before the disciplinary committee of the school where they confessed.

They were then suspended indefinitely while their parents were immediately contacted on Thursday, July 2.

The grandmaster is reported to have revealed that since his initiation, he had engaged in a lot of spiritual exploits, including spiritual trips to South Africa, with his compatriots in other schools.

He added that during evening preps, his friends visited him spiritually and engaged in meetings and other conversations.

The three who were being initiated noted that they accepted to join due to fear and some spiritual experiences such as hearing of voices and experiencing nightmares.

They noted that they were convinced that if they became part of the group, they would be well protected, physically and spiritually.

As part of the process, fresh eggs were buried in front of the dining hall and behind the ICT lab. However, when the group took the disciplinary committee members to the spots, the eggs could not be found, despite a thorough search.

The sources noted that when the news broke in the school, some teachers and students were gripped with fear, while others hooted at the group.

When Mr Avor was contacted, he confirmed the incident but refused to give further details. He revealed that since it involved young children, the incident had to be handled cautiously; hence the parents had been contacted.

He added that most of them had replied, with some appealing on their wards’ behalf. Mr. Avor noted that the board of the school would meet on the issue and also with the affected parents to give its final decision.

Source: RMC-RC 012, Fred Duodu, Adidome for Campus TV- Volta

11/08/2012

Northern Members of Parliament (MPs) have been challenged to ensure that a forensic audit was conducted to ascertain whether the 10 million pounds that was given by the Colonial government to cater for education in the area is fully exhausted.

Mr Robert Ajene, the retired educationist, who threw the challenge during the third annual congress of the National BONABOTO Students Union held in Bolgatanga on Monday, said it was regrettable that the Northern MPs had not tabled any motion before Parliament challenging the withdrawal of the northern scholarship.

The BONABOTO Students comprises of students from Bolgatanga, Nangodi, Bongo and Tongo. Mr Ajene said everything of the scholarship had been scrapped off except the boarding fee, which he noted was affecting education in the three northern Regions.

He said the idea that the northern education development scholarship was free was never true and stressed that it was the birth right of the north to enjoy it.

He explained that it was the birth right of the people from the north to enjoy the scholarship because during the colonial era northerners were used, to provide labour, by the colonial Masters to develop the southern parts of the country, leaving the north undeveloped. “Education started in the Southern parts in the 18 century whilst that of the northern parts started in the 20th century.

Based on this, a lot of schools were built in the southern parts leading to most of the people in the area being educated more than those in the north.”

He explained that it was to compensate northerners and to help bridge the developmental gap between the north and south that the Colonial Masters gave the 10million pounds to help cater for the education needs, which was the key to development.

The outgoing President of the Union, Mr Atubga David Atia, said the Union apart from helping the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly to mobilize revenue, also organised holiday classes for students in the Region.

11/08/2012

Mr Dan Botwe, Member of Parliament (MP) for Okere, has inaugurated a three- unit classroom block with computer laboratory he constructed for the Bethel Presbyterian Junior High School at Adukrom at the cost of GHC 38, 000.

The provision of the facility was in response to a request made by authorities of the school and the church to the MP last year when he paid a working visit to the educational institution.

Mr Botwe said he was determined to help create the right environment in all schools within the constituency for effective academic work.

He said education played a pivotal in socio-economic development, adding that the fight against poverty, ignorance and disease could only be won through effective education.

Mr Botwe pledged to supply the school with 10 computers and accessories to equip the laboratory and to help the school to acquire furniture and exercise books.

The MP said he would initiate scholarship to brilliant but needy children to help them complete their education.

Mr Botwe also launched a programme dubbed “Get Okere Reading,” which aimed at encouraging school children in the area to cultivate the habit of reading. He appealed to parents to supply their children with their basic needs.

Mr Joseph Appiah Koranteng, Headteacher of the school, commended the MP for his development to education in the area.

Source; GNA

11/08/2012

The Forum for Governance and Justice (FGJ) has called on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to justify to Ghanaians, especially students and parents, why it was charging GH¢4.00 for the PIN code needed to check results online.

A statement signed by Dr Clement .A. Apaak, Convener of FGJ and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday said, the issue came to the attention of the FGJ before the release of the BECE results and all attempts to get answers to the charges proved futile.

“Even a brief report on our concern by Radio XYZ did not generate any answer from WAEC, hence the need to adopt a public approach in the interest of fairness and justice.”

It said two years ago WAEC sold PIN codes inscribed on professionally produced scratch cards similar to the mobile phone unit cards to students to check their results online, “These cards were originally priced at GH¢2.50, and was later raised to GH¢4.00.”

The statement said when FGJ checked with owners of internet cafés, where most students and or their parents bought the scratch cards, “WAEC has completely done away with the scratch card and has since introduced strips of paper (one inch by three inches). The serial numbers and the PIN numbers on the strips of paper are all visible and can easily be copied without scratching. Yet, WAEC is still charging GH¢4.00 for each strip of paper with no security features.”

It said “We believe that slips of paper should not sell for more than GH¢1.00 at best.”

The statement said: “WAEC has a responsibility to explain why it is causing students and parents to spend extra amounts for an inferior product to check results online in addition to examination fees. These students and their parents also pay for the use of the internet as well as to print the provisional results.

Source; Ghana News Agency-GNA

31/07/2012

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Wednesday announced the release of the provisional results of the April 2012 Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.).

This was contained in statement issued and signed by the Principal Public Affairs Officer, for Head of National Office Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday..

It said that one hundred and eighty (180) candidates had their subjects results cancelled for various examination malpractices, which include bringing of foreign material into the examination hall and conspiracy. Five thousand, two hundred and fifty-two (5,252) candidates results have also been withheld pending the conclusion of investigation.

The results for schools would be dispatched through the District Directors of Education, meanwhile candidates have been advised to access their results online.

31/07/2012

Heads of Senior High Schools who offer admission to students who do not merit being there, could face the consequences of being exposed in public, as an NGO has disclosed its plans to place devices at some schools to capture the admission process.

Under the current education system, graduates from the Junior High Schools are selected and posted to the SHS of their choice by the Computerised Selection and Schools Placement System (CSSPS), based on the scores they obtained from the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), orgainsed annually by the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC).

However, reports of students who qualify to enter certain schools of their choice but found that their names had been missing from the list forwarded to those schools even though they may have obtained the requisite scores to earn them the offer to study in those schools, continue to dominate the admission processes.

As the WAEC announced results of this year’s BEC Exams last Thursday, the CSSPS Secretariat is expected to begin the selection and placement before the school heads initiate the admission processes, and this, the local NGO, Ghana Rising Movement indicated, they will monitor closely to ensure justice is served.

Ghana Rising Movement says it has set up a network of competent persons to keep an eye on some of the so-called first class schools who deliberately deny admission to students from rural areas who are posted to such schools and offer those slots to students from wealthy homes.

Executive Secretary for the Movement Rev. Raymond Danquah disclosed to Myjoyonline.com that they will go ahead to expose school heads who will be captured on tape, as a way of putting an end to the practice.

Rev. Daquah was sad about the fact that some school heads who are seen as an extension of moral values, succumb to pressure from some persons in higher authorities, and deny students who genuinely qualify to gain admission into schools of their choice.

He further regretted that students are being taught at their level by their parent that the only way they can push their way through to the top in society, is to influence the established procedures, by bribing authorities.

He therefore urged school authorities to protect their image and avoid being exposed and their school’s image tarnished, by operating strictly according to the admission procedures.

Meanwhile Ghana Rising Movement has established a desk to offer protection to heads who are prepared to work strictly with the procedure without yielding to pressure from parents.

31/07/2012

A former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. J.S.K Ayim, has raised concern about the reliance on the use of pamphlets in senior high schools across the country.

He said some of the pamphlets were not only full of mistakes but also misinformed students.

Consequently, he has called for more emphasis to be placed on the use of textbooks which were reviewed by the peers of the authors and which were thoroughly checked for mistakes before they were published.

Also, he said, the textbooks of senior high schools gave students a broader perspective about what they were studying, rather than pamphlets.

Prof. Ayim said this at the Senior Academic Leadership Training (SALT) for university administrators in Ghana and Nigeria. The event was organised by the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) with support from the Carnegie Corporation.

He also advised lecturers to endeavour to be regular in class and reduce the movements from one tertiary institution to the other at the expense of their students.

Instead of attending to their students and teaching, he said, some lecturers tended to do what he described as ‘galamseying’. That and the non-organisation of tutorials, Prof. Ayim said, among other things, affected the effective delivery of education.

Prof. Ayim, who was the moderator during a presentation on Quality Assurance by Prof. K.S. Nokoe, a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, said the practice of moving from one university to the other resulted in lecturers having divided attention.

He, however, said lecturers had tended to engage in ‘galamsey’ because some institutions did not have enough staff, thereby falling on other institutions for lecturers.

He said there was, therefore, the need for the training of more people and the requisite human resource to man the various institutions. The immediate-past Executive Secretary of the NCTE, Dr Paul Effah, said the programme aimed at training university leaders in the next three years.

He said training needs assessment was done to find out the skills gap in leadership performance in the universities.

Five areas, he said, were identified; they include financial management and resource mobilisation. The training programme, which is targeted at both public and private universities, is expected to train 370 university leaders for the three-year period.

The Executive Secretary of the NCTE, Prof. Mahama Duwiejua, earlier in the week, gave a presentation on Repositioning Research in African Universities”.

Other presenters at the event included Prof. Jospus Anamuah-Mensah, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba. He spoke on “Funding University Research.”

Source: Emmanuel Bonney/D-Graphic

31/07/2012

Ghana as at September, 2007 has 12,130 primary schools, 5,450 junior secondary schools, 503 senior secondary schools, 21 training colleges, 18 technical institutions, two diploma-awarding institutions and five universities serving a population of 17 million; this means that most Ghanians have relatively easy access to good education. In contrast, at the time of independence in 1957, Ghana had only one university and a handful of secondary and primary schools. In the past decade, Ghana's spending on education has been between 28 percent and 40 percent of its annual budget.
Basic education

Primary- and middle-school education is tuition-free and will be mandatory when enough teachers and facilities are available to accommodate all the students. Students begin their 6-year primary education at age six. Under educational reforms implemented in 1987, they pass into a new junior secondary school system for 3 years of academic training combined with technical and vocational training.
Senior Secondary education
After basic school, pupils may enter Senior secondary (or technical/vocational) schools for a three-year course, which prepare them for university education. Students usually study a combination of three (in some cases, four) 'elective' subjects and a number of core subjects. For example, a science student could study Additional Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics as his 'elective' subjects. An arts students might study Geography, Economics and Literature as his elective subjects. In addition to the elective subjects, there are 'core' subjects, which are those studied by all students in addition to their 'electives'. The 'core' subjects include Mathematics, English and Science.

At the end of the three year senior secondary course, students are required to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). Students who obtain aggregate 18 or better (six is best) can enter the university. Usually, the score is determined by aggregating the student's grades in his elective subjects. The aggregate score is then added to the aggregate score of his best 'core' subjects, with scores in English and Mathematics considered first.

So if an arts students scores 'A' in Geography, 'B' in Literature and 'C' in Economics, he'd obtain an aggregate score of 6 for his electives (i.e. A=1; B=2 & C=3...F(fail)=6). His best electives are then added. If he obtain 'B' in English, 'C' in Mathematics and 'A' in Social Studies, his best 'core' aggregate will be six. Therefore, his overall aggregate score will be 12 and he qualifies for admission into a university. Once again, an overall aggregate score of six is best.
Tertiary education Entrance to universities is by examination following completion of senior secondary school. School enrollment totals almost 2 million: 1.3 million primary; 107,600 secondary; 489,000 middle; 21,280 technical; 11,300 teacher training; and 5,600 university.

Education is mainly in English.

NB; The educational system has changed, watch out for the new updates soon on this page.

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