Lee Ocran, Education Minister-designate Teachers at Cape Coast Amanful Catholic Boys Junior High School (JHS) have threatened to strike if the Metropolitan Assembly fails to stop people from dumping refuse on campus and using the facility as a place of convenience. Mrs. Georgina Nkum, Head teacher of the school issued the threat on behalf of her colleagues, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency... 

The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. It is also any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house. Function of Adjectives Adjectives... 

The Implementation Committee of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has been urged to closely monitor the management of the programme at all levels to ensure high level of efficiency. The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr. Samuel Sarpong, said they should do everything to ensure that meals for the school children are prepared under hygienic conditions and well-balanced to improve their... 

To be of good behaviour The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Directorate of Education has ordered final year students of the Junior High School (JHS) in the metropolis to sign an undertaking with their parents as witnesses to be of good behaviour until they write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Metropolitan Director of Education, Nana Kofi Adjei Mbeah told GNA that the move was to... 

You see the letters ICT everywhere – particularly in education. But what does it mean? ICT is an acronym that stands for Information Communications Technology However, apart from explaining an acronym, there is not a universally accepted definition of ICT? Why? Because the concepts, methods and applications involved in ICT are constantly evolving on an almost daily basis. It is difficult to keep... 

AUTHOR: HELLEN POWELL 'Girls perform as well as boys in their maths GCSEs according to last year's results Women’s underachievement in maths may not be due to their poor self-image in the subject, a new report suggests.   Researcher Dr. Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Leeds says that the so-called “stereotype threat” theory – which holds that women perform... 

ASKS DR. KWAME OSEI With the new school term a couple of weeks old, we thought it appropriate to put the education system in Ghana under the microscope and explain why it is a time bomb that is waiting to explode. It is widely acknowledged that education is a key component in nation-building and national development. Without it we are not going to produce the next generation of farmers, doctors, nurses,... 

A great skill to have is the ability to solve problems effectively. Not only that, it’s also a great skill to teach students. There are a few key requirements to solve problems effectively.  In and out of the classroom, we’re often confronted with problems and effective problem solvers often employ a few key remedies. Here are the steps to becoming a more effective problem solver. Here’s... 

  Success in social skills leads to academic and functional success. Social skills are critical for long term success. Collaboration is an important social skill Sometimes referred to as Emotional Intelligence, it is a combination of the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotional state (Intra-personal Intelligence in Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple... 

AUTHOR: SUSAN FITZELL We learn through all of the intelligence styles, but we have certain learning preferences that are stronger than others. Choose strategies that support your student’s strongest learning preference when helping them with homework or studying. For verbal/linguistic learners These learners learn by saying, hearing and seeing words. They can easily memorize names, dates, places...