April 27, 2011 Accra , April 27, GNA – The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) on Wednesday called for a policy change in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) as a terminal point for basic school leavers. The call was made by Mr Kojo Armah, CPP Shadow Cabinet Minister of Education, when speaking on the alternative policy vision on Education; at the 15th in the series of “How The CPP Will Do It: Education,” in Accra . “The CPP's view is that the BECE as it stands now prematurely condemns a large percentage of our youth to the fringes or outer perimeters of national development as they are categorise as drop-outs because they could not make the required aggregates to enter secondary schools, yet have very little other windows open to them,” he said
April 27, 2011
Tamale, April 27, GNA – The President John Atta Mills arrived in Tamale on Wednesday to begin a four-day tour of the Northern Region.
The President was met by an enthusiastic crowd at the Tamale airport some of whom included party executives, district chief executives and ministers of state amidst drumming and dancing.
The President is expected to pay courtesy calls on chiefs, inaugurate projects and cut the sod for work to begin on some.
