SELECTION OF 21ST CENTURY STEM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS ON THE 2023 PLACEMENT PORTAL
The Ministry of Education (MoE, GES, TVET Service, FSHS & CSSPS) announces to prospective SHS students, parents/ guardians and the public, that the 21st Century Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics–STEM SCHOOL PLACEMENT PORTAL has been opened.
The portal gives access to the list of NEW STEM Senior High Schools included in the 2023 School selection and placement process.
It also provides information on available STEM programs and their career pathways. It gives further details of existing Senior High Schools that would be offering STEM programs during the 2023 academic year.
Students with an interest in pursuing strictly STEM programs are encouraged to visit WWW.STEM-SSP.COM.GHto select their preferred schools and corresponding programs. It is important to note that choices made using this portal will take precedence over initial selections.
The Management of the Ghana National Service Scheme (GNSS) has today, December 20, 2022, released a total of TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX (28,976) PIN Codes for the enrolment of trained teachers from all accredited Colleges of Education in the country to enable them to undertake their mandatory one-year national service for the 2022/23 service year.
All prospective national service personnel are hereby requested to access their PIN Codes from today, December 20, 2022, with their respective Index Numbers and Date of Birth on the Scheme’s website, www.nss.gov.gh and then proceed to any Agric Development Bank (ADB) Ltd. branch nationwide to make a payment of GHC 40.00.
Alternatively, prospective service personnel can pay with MTN Momo. For those who would activate their PIN Codes using MTN Mobile Money, a payment of GHC 41.00 is required.
The Management directs all prospective National Service Personnel to begin registration today, December 20, 2022, and end it on Monday, January 09, 2023.
BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (BECE) FOR SCHOOL AND PRIVATE CANDIDATES, 2022
UPDATE ON THE RELEASE OF RESULTS
The West African Examinations Council wishes to inform the public about the date for the release of results for the BECE for School and Private Candidates, 2022.
Having successfully conducted the examination at 2,023 centres and completed Co- ordination and Marking exercises, the Council is far advanced with post-examination activities.
Investigations are ongoing into examination irregularity cases detected during and after the conduct of the examination. For a quick resolution of malpractice cases, the Council appeals to affected school authorities and candidates to respond with dispatch to its invitation. Candidates are informed that their refusal to honour such invitations shall not impede the Council from making a final determination on the cases in question.
The Council urges the public to disregard all information circulating on social media indicating that the results have been released, among others.
The target date for the release of results for the BECE for both School and Private Candidates, 2022 is Wednesday, 25th January, 2023.
Parents and candidates should remain calm as the Council works towards the release of results.
The Assembly member for Kumawu-Dadease electoral area in the Sskyere Kumawu district of Ashanti region,Hon Kofi Adade,has been praised for his consistent support to the Education of orphans and needy students since 2013 to date .
Hon Kofi Adade
The commendation of Hon. Adade follows another presentation of educational materials to the Orphans and Needy students within his electoral area.
Hon Kofi Adade at a shop to buy educational materials
The Kumawu- Dadease Assembly member who is also a journalist at Kumasi based Oyerepa fm/TV, however, lamented about skyrocketing prices of text and exercise books.
According to him, nowadays Educational materials are too high to purchase and called for urgent reduction.
Hon Kofi Adade said he has supported the needy Orphans in his electoral area since 2013 till date with learning materials like exercise books, pen, pencil, mathematics set and others but the prices of this year’s items are too expensive.
He is therefore appealing to sellers of the material to reduce the prices since dollar and prices of fuel have been reduced.
Call Hon Kofi Adade for more details on 0243176589.
The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has advised students to remain focused and study hard so that the huge investment being made in the education sector does not go waste.
He explained that if all students went to school regularly, attend all classes and study hard, there was no way they would not pass their examinations to make their families proud, move forward in their education process and also position themselves for the field of work after school.
Dr Osei Adutwum gave the advice on Wednesday when he addressed the staff and students of Labone Senior High School in Accra.
Dr.Osei Yaw Adutwum
The unannounced visit was part of the Minister’s regular tour of schools to ascertain the first-hand state of affairs in the school, interact with them and also share the vision of the government on education in the country.
“You have been offered the opportunity to prepare yourself for a better future and whether you can attain that depends on how best you remain focused, and work hard by dedicating more time to your studies than socializing”. He said.
Dr Adutwum who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe enumerated the various interventions the government was putting in place to improve the nation’s economy through education development.
Again, he said the government is currently doing everything possible to ensure that students get the best support to enhance effective teaching and learning in all schools across the country.
He stated that “we are improving the teaching system by providing the necessary equipment and training of teachers so that they can make prudent use of the equipment for effective teaching and learning to take place”.
The Education Minister assured the leadership of the school of his desire to support their activities by providing them with the needed resources for effective teaching and learning to take place.
He pledged to donate two pianos to support the teaching and learning of music and other social gatherings at the school.
Mrs Rejoice Accolor, Headmistress of Labone SHS, who was surprised at the visit to the school by the Minister was very happy and appealed to him to visit again to motivate both the teachers and the students anytime he had a free schedule.
He appealed to the Dr Adutwum to help provide more infrastructure facilities in the school to create more learning spaces for more students to be admitted into the school.
The Education Minister used the opportunity to share breakfast with the students who were very excited seeing the Minister sharing breakfast with them
The Assembly member for Krofrom East electoral area who doubles as Presiding Member(PM) of Kumari Metropolitan Assembly (KMA),Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong,has donated educational materials to basic schools in his electoral area.
Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong (Right) making presentation to Mr.Austin Opiku Boateng
The educational materials which include; books ,mathematical sets ,markers for teachers among other materials worth Twenty Five thousand Ghana cedis (Ghc 25,000).
Hon Patrick Kwame Frimpong (Right) making presentation to Mad.Comfort Adumah.
Beneficiaries schools include :New Tafo M/A basic school and Adabia Islamic basic school respectively.
Section of the pupils receiving educational materials from Hon.Frimpong.
Speaking at the short ceremony on Tuesday, 17th January, 2023,Hon.Frimpong who is also Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Safe Journey Foundation, NGO specialized in road safety campaign said the donation forms part of his annual contributions to enhance teaching and learning in the electoral area and Kumasi Metropolis as a whole.
He advised the pupils to take
their studies very serious devoid of all acts that have tendency to thwart their efforts.
KMA PM also encouraged parents /Guardians not to relent in their efforts of providing basic materials to their wards .
According to him,the need for parents to invest high in their wards education cannot be overemphasized since education is the bed rock of every developed society or community.
Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong took time to admonish the head teachers of various schools including Adabia Islamic primary school & New Tafo M/A to continue to give out their best.
He commanded the teachers in the area for their commitment in ensuring provision of quality education.
The donation was received by New Tafo M/A basic school head, Mr.Austin Opoku Boateng and Madam Comfort Adumah,Assistant head teacher for Adabia Islamic primary school for onwards distribution to the students.
Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong speaking to Journalists after the donation
They commended Hon Patrick Frimpong for his frequent donations and support towards provision of quality education in the area and the country at large.
They encouraged individuals,Churches, NGOS among other stakeholders to emulate the gesture of Hon.Patrick Kwame Frimpong
Source: Tntnewspapergh.com
The Country Director of the British Council in Ghana, Mr Nii Doodo Dodoo, has affirmed the British Council’s desire to renew an existing relationship with the Education Ministry to improve education development in the country.
He explained that the relationship between the two institutions which dates back several years was being renewed to promote the development of education in the country and the rest of the world, adding that the leadership of the two institutions would soon meet to have a thorough discussion on possible areas they could collaborate.
Mr Nii Doodo Dodoo, announced this when he paid a courtesy call to the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, in Accra on Monday.
The visit was aimed at introducing himself as the Country Director of the British Council to the Education Minister and also finding areas of possible collaboration in new areas of education and other facets of the nation’s economy.
The Country Director eulogized Dr Adutwum for his role in the ongoing education reforms in the country which stood the chance of transforming the nation’s economy.
Mr Nii Dodoo said his outfit would have a critical look at areas to support so they could put in place the right and best ways of partnering with the Education Ministry to come out with the appropriate ways of getting things done for the country.
The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, described the role played by the British Council as very critical towards national development since it creates opportunities for the empowerment of the people, especially human resources development.
He enumerated the various reforms and initiatives being introduced into the nation’s education space to support the national transformation agenda, adding that no new education policy was being introduced but looking at the loopholes in the various policies and finding solutions to them.
Possible areas of collaboration
Dr Adutwum stated that one of the areas he wanted the British Council to support was the training of English teachers in the country on how to teach the language as a foreign language and not to English-speaking countries.
This, to him, would help sharpen the skills of the English teachers so they would be able to get the best so that the teaching of the language would improve drastically since it was critical in teaching in all schools in the country.
The Education Minister also wanted to partner with the British Council to ensure that all schools in the country pursuing international curricula add some local content into their curriculum so that their students would know and understand their host countries.
He mentioned for instance that the British Council could bring its experiences to bear when it comes to the establishment of the National Education Leadership Institute (NELI) and called on the institution to come on board towards the training of the leaders in the education sector.
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The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, has affirmed the preparedness of the scheme towards the development of education in the country by posting more than 40,000 NSS personnel to the sector yearly.
Hon.Osei Assibey Antwi,NSS boss,Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum , Education Minister and other dignitaries
He explained that the posting of NSS personnel to complement the efforts of teachers was critical in filling vacancies, especially in the hard-to-reach areas where even trained teachers were not ready to accept posting to meanwhile children in such communities also needed teachers to teach them.
Addressing the media on Friday in Accra on the role of the scheme in the development of education in the country, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, explained that although the scheme was not responsible for the training of teachers in the country, so far as they assisted in the deployment of NSS personnel to teach made their role equally important.
He stated that the posting of NSS personnel to fill vacancies across the nation by the scheme was particularly crucial especially in schools without trained teachers to support education development in the country.
Innovative drive
The Executive Director spoke about the recent completion of a 10-day training programme in General Pedagogy for 2,000 service personnel who have been deployed to teach in Senior High and Technical Schools.
He stated that the training programme was organized by the NSS in collaboration with the National Teaching Council (NTC), Ghana Education Service Ghana (GES) and the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to provide the requisite skills for the beneficiaries to function effectively in the classroom.
Mr Osei Assibey mentioned that the training was designed to support personnel to gain knowledge in teaching approaches and equip them with the foundational pedagogical skills in preparation for their work in schools as teachers.
The Executive Director stated that personnel who successfully completed the programme have been issued with emergency licenses for a period of one year so they could qualify to teach in the country.
Commendation
Mr Osei Assibey praised Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, for his support towards all efforts towards transforming the nation’s economy through education.
The Executive Director was particularly grateful to Dr Adutwum for painstakingly following and assisting the various agencies to work as a team towards getting the best education for the country.
Again, he lauded the funding Agency and all collaborators such as GES, GTEL and NTC among others who played various roles towards the preparation of the pedagogical training manual as well as the training itself.
He pledged the scheme’s desire to put in place many prudent measures to ensure that NSS personnel deployed become very useful to their host and the entire country
The Executive Director indicated that the recent training of 2,000 personnel in General Pedagogy was part of the Scheme’s new policy direction of deployment for employment.
Assurance to the youth
The maiden General Pedagogy training for 2,000 service personnel which took place recently was opened by the Chief of Staff, Abena Fremah Opare, who assured the youth of the government’s readiness to help them to also contribute their quota towards the development of the country.
She urged them to remain focused and give out their best wherever they might be posted to so they could assist their students to get the best education.
The Executive Director spoke about the recent completion of a 10-day training programme in General Pedagogy for 2,000 service personnel who have been deployed to teach in Senior High and Technical Schools.
Background
The NSS for almost five decades deployed some of its personnel to assist in teaching in various pre-tertiary schools across the country.
Although the personnel are posted to all regions nationwide, those who benefit most are schools in deprived communities in the country that may not have the full complement of trained teachers in their schools due to numerous reasons.
The introduction of pedagogical skills to enhance the teaching skills of the personnel is one of the innovations that have been introduced into the scheme to make beneficiaries of the training more efficient in their teaching roles during the service period and beyond.
The GES declared the total number of vacancies in the various districts in the country leading to the NSS posting personnel to fill such vacancies.
The Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the 2023 school placement exercise will begin with the verification of students’ school choices.
GES in a release signed by the Head of the Public Relations Unit, Cassandra Twum Ampofo explained the rationale behind the new procedure.
According to the release, ”this verification process is to ensure accuracy in students’ choice information before they are placed in their selected Second Cycle Schools.”
The verification exercise which commenced on 14th January, 2023 will end on 22nd January, 2023.
GES noted as part of the verification exercise, “Students, parents/guardians will receive SMS message from the CSSPS which contains web portal: https://csspsverify.com and USSD short code number 89988# with 4digit token number.”
“Students who may have errors in their initial selection should call 0556541525 or click on the edit button available on the web portal after their selection details are displayed with a copy of the original selection form.
“Students can also send an email with the copy of the original selection form to cssps2021@gmail com,” it added.
GES cautioned students that the verification exercise is not to change schools but to confirm the initial choices source:myjoyonline com
their studies very serious devoid of all acts that have tendency to thwart their efforts.
