According to the NaCCA the popular examination has outlived its
relevance. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has
revealed that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will soon be scrapped from the country’s educational system.

According to executive secretary of NaCCA, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, the popular examination has outlived its relevance. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Thursday, Dr. Armah said there is enough evidence to support the need to introduce a new approach in testing the quality of teaching that pupils receive in Ghanaian schools. “The nomenclature called BECE will be scrapped totally. An exams will be used to do placements going forward. A criterion reference system will be used, BECE has outlived its usefulness in this country. The reports are there to prove this. The current examination known as the BECE is not Standard,” he said. He also disclosed “The National Assessment Test will be done at Primary 2, 4 ,6 & JHS 2. The end of term exams will not be replaced by the Assessment Test. “At primary 2 the children will write the National Assessment Test so we can tell their strengths and weaknesses. When we identify the learning gaps the teachers will have to give such children special attention. Every Ghanaian child would write end of term exams. The precious curriculum is what we describe as the objectivism curriculum. It focused more on what the teacher must achieve. This one focuses on what the children should know”.

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National Teaching Council is indexing all the Trainee Teachers in the country. NTC is taking details of collegians to generate codes for Trainees for them to easily access the website of NTC and that is the indexing. Please be informed that NTC will send SMS message via your
mobile number you provided to your college.The SMS bears your Name, your code and the link to NTC website. Please once you receive the message, open the link and fill in the necessary requirements as may be needed. To the 1st and 2nd years (prospective level 200s and 300s) You will be required to scan your admission letter. If you have lost
the admission letter, please contact the College secretaries for new ones to complete the form.
To the newly trained teachers (2019). Just like the above, you will be required to scan the admission letter as part of the requirements (that is the ideal document needed) but because you are no more on campus, you can use the student identification card in place of the admission letter. This provision is for only the newly trained teachers.
Please, Colleagues who may not receive their messages should;
1. Contact their College authorities whether their information is sent to NTC.
2. Contact TTAG sector executives for further assistance.
Thank you!
Anthony Dadzie
National President, TTAG

The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the the Ghana Education Service (GES) and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) have held a 3-day Ministerial Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workshop in Accra to discuss assessment proposals and make recommendations to guide the comprehensive review of the Junior High School (JHS) and the Senior High School (SHS) curriculum. The workshop sought to create a forum to discuss on issues regarding the alignment of the new school curriculum and assessment framework and make recommendations on learner progression and placement from the Junior High School to the Senior High School.
Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education, in his opening remarks, mentioned the need for secondary school education to prepare learners for skills, training, field of work and lifelong learning. He further stressed the need to make Ghana’s capacity building agenda sustainable through the review of the JHS and SHS curriculum. This review process is expected to stimulate curriculum change at the universities by aligning the university entry requirements with the secondary education curriculum. The end result is to make all courses accessible to all students irrespective of a student’s background or socio-economic status. The new curriculum is engineered to reinforce the knowledge and
skills acquired during basic education and provide a diversified curriculum to cater for different aptitudes, abilities, interest, and skills. It will also provide an opportunity for further education and training and introduce students to a variety of relevant occupational skill necessary for national human resource development. Students would better understand the environment and the need for its sustainability and develop an interest for lifelong learning. The workshop was chaired by Professor Dominic Fobih, a former Minister of Education, also in attendance was the Honourable Deputy Minister of Education (TVET) as well as Council Chairs, Director General of Ghana Education Service, other Heads of various agencies of the Ministry of Education, and experts from Universities, Colleges of Education as well as eminent educationists.

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Trainee teachers in the 46 public Colleges of Education are to receive their July/August allowance this month(August). This information came through a chat between a concern trainee and SLTF which the conversation was screenshot and shared on social media platforms just to give hope to other trainees. In the screenshot, the person asked if they( SLTF) are paying the July/August stipend. They replied, " we are paying for July and August"


Phreshnewsgh wanted to know the truth in this information circulating in whatsapp groups.
Indeed! we can comfirm that, the July/August allowance are going to be paid to trainee teachers this month but we can't give the exact date it will be paid.
We hope it is paid on time.



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 Features of the new curriculum to take off in September, 2019.

KG (1&2)
1. Language and Literacy
2. Numeracy
3. Creative Arts
4. Our World & Our People (Integrated Themes: History, Religious
and Moral Education; Computing, Civics & Geography, Science)
PE will be a practical activity through all classes
RME will be a Timetabled activity through all classes

Upper Primary (B4 -B6)
1. Literacy (with Gh Lang as subject and Eng. Lang as both
medium of instruction and subject and French)
2. Mathematics
3. Science (including Agriculture)
4. Creative Arts (Integrated Themes: Music, Arts, Financial
Literacy, Dance, Drama, Visual Arts, Agric)
5. History
6. Our World & Our People (Integrated Themes: Citizenship
Education, Geography and Agriculture)
7. Computing (with emphasis on Computer Application)
8. Physical Education
9. RME
Colour and style of School uniforms for JHS to change to
differentiate JHS students from Primary.

Lower Primary ( B1 - B3)
1. Language and Literacy
2. Numeracy
3. Creative Arts (Visual and Performing Arts)
4. History
5. Science
6. Our World & Our People (Integrated Themes: Computing,
Agriculture, Citizenship Education & Geography)
7. PE
8. RME : in all school (B1 – 6):

SUBJECT PERIOD ALLOCATION
Literacy (English and Gh. Lang.)-15 Periods
Mathematics -10 Periods
Science - 4 Periods
Creative Arts - 4 Periods
History - 4 Periods
RME - 2 Periods
PE - 2 Periods
OWOP - 4 Periods
French - 2 Periods
Computing - 2 Periods
Worship - 1 Period
TOTAL -50 PERIODS
10 Periods per Day
30 Minutes per Period = 300 minutes of daily instructional time.
1.5 hours to be allocated to extra curriculum activities at Primary
School and cross curriculum studies at later years

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Accra College of Education, has released their admission list for the 2019/2020 academic year. Kindly check your status below:
Congratulations to all successful applicants

Komenda admission list has been released.
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Wiawso College of Education Admission (WATICO) admission
list for 2019/2020 academic year is out.
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The Mother of all colleges, Presbyterian College of Education, has released their successful applicants of the 2019/2020 admission.
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His Excellency,
 Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, P.C., LL.D., etc.,
President of the Republic of Ghana,
Flagstaff House, Accra.

Dear Dr. Nkrumah,
      I am tired of being in prison on preventive detention with no opportunity to make an original or any contribution to the progress and development of the country, and I therefore respectfully write to beg, and appeal to you to make an order for my release and return home. I am anxious to resume my contribution to the progress and development of Ghana in the field of Ghanaian literature (Twi and English), and in Ghana Research (History and Culture), and I am anxious also to establish my wife and children in a home, to develop the education of my children (ten of them) and to restore my parental home at Kibi (Yiadom House) to a respectable dignity, worthy of my late father's own contribution to the progress of our country. You will recall that when in 1948 we were arrested by the British Government and sent to the North for detention they treated us as gentlemen, not as galley slaves, and provided each of us with a furnished bungalow (two or three rooms) with a garden, together with opportunity for reading and writing. In fact, I took with me my typewriter and papers for the purpose, and Ako Adjei also did the
same, and there was ample opportunity for correspondence. Here at Nsawam, for the four months of my detention up to date (8th January to 9th May 1964), I have not been allowed access to my books and papers, except the Bible, and although I was told in January that my application to write to my wife, Mrs Elizabeth Danquah, could be considered if I addressed a letter to the Minister of the Interior, through the Director of Prisons, I have not, for over three months, since I wrote to the Minister as directed on the 31st January 1964, received any reply, not even a common acknowledgment from the Minister as to whether I should be allowed to write to my wife or not. As I had no opportunity to make any financial provision for my wife and children at the time of my
arrest, this delay in the Minister's reply has made it impossible for me to contribute to the progress and maintenance of my wife and also for the education of my children as is my duty to the nation.
Secondly, you will recall that barely a month after our detention in the North in 1948 we were brought down to Accra and released to appear before a Commission of Enquiry set up to investigate the justice or otherwise of our arrest and detention. We duly appeared before the Watson Commission and made history for Gold Coast and Ghana. It resulted in the finding that the Burns Constitution was outmoded at birth, with a recommendation that our country should attain its independence within ten years, and that a Constitutional Committee (the Coussey Committee) should be set up to lay down the foundations of such independence and the steps to be taken towards its attainment. In the present case, since I was arrested four months ago, I have not been asked to appear before any Judge, or Committee, or Commission, and, up to now, all I have been told is contained in a sheet of paper entitled "Grounds for Detention" in which I am accused that "in recent months" I have been actively engaged in a plan "to overthrow the Government of Ghana by unlawful means" and that I have planned thereby "to endanger the security of the State" (the Police and Armed Forces). As no particulars of any kind were provided in the grounds for detention to indicate how the Government of Ghana came to formulate such a disgraceful charge against me, I spent in the prison here the greater part of January and February 1964 to write a review of the whole of my activities in "recent months" (roughly, from June 1962 [last release from detention] to January 1964). This writing was done by way of "Representations" in answer to the charge... I confidently assure you, Sir, that when my representations reach you, it will be realised that my contribution in the said period of "recent months" to the intellectual and cultural achievement of the country was such that what should have been sent to me on January 8, 1964, was not a hostile invasion of my home and family, like enemy territory, together with my arrest and detention, but rather a delegation of Ghanaian civil officials and other dignitaries to offer me the congratulations of the nation and the thanks of the Government... This, however was not to be, and I find myself locked up at Nsawam Prison in a cell of about six by nine feet, without a writing
or reading desk, without a dining table, without a bed, or a chair or any form of seat, and compelled to eat my food squatting on the same floor where two blankets and a cover are spread for me on the hard cement to sleep on, and where a latrine pan (piss pot) without a closet, and a water jug and a cup without a locker, are all assembled in that narrow space for my use like a galley slave... I am required to sleep or keep lying down on the blankets and a small pillow for the whole 24 hours of the day and night except for a short period of about five minutes in the morning to empty and wash out my latrine pan, and of about ten to fifteen minutes at noon to go for a bath. I am occasionally allowed to do a short exercise in the sun say once a week for about half an hour. That is all I have been engaged on in four months with my talents, such as I possess, going waste and my health being undermined and my life endangered by various diseases without being allowed to be taken to the Prison Hospital for continuous observation and treatment... I am now left in a prison cell at the Special Block at the Nsawam Prison reserved for "dangerous criminals", and I am being thereby effectively prevented from making any original contribution to the intellectual and cultural progress of our country... I end as I began. I am tired of being kept in prison kicking my heels, and doing nothing worth while for the country of my birth and love, and for the great continent of Africa which was the first to give the entire world a real taste of civilisation... I trust you will accept this appeal for my release from detention in the spirit of utmost confidence and cordiality in which it is written, and I look forward to my early release from prison with the greatest possible faith, expectation and confidence.
Believe me to be,
Yours Very Sincerely and Respectfully
(Sgd.) J. B. Danquah

CREDIT : CHRISPINE OSEI KUFFOUR