A form two student of the Oyoko Methodist Senior High School in the Eastern Region has died, the Ghana Education Service has announced. The student has been identified as Jennifer Naa Doku Bolor.
She is said to have died on Thursday, July 30, after writing her last exam paper of the semester on that particular day.
According to the Ghana Education Service, Jennifer, after writing the exam reported sick to the school nurse and while she was being attended to, collapsed and was rushed to the St. Joseph Hospital.
This is, at least, the third reported incident of death of a student in a Senior High School since schools were partially reopened for students.
The first incident was at the KNUST SHS where a final year student died after school authorities allegedly refused to attend to him when he was complaining of stomach upset during the day. Another incident was at the Methodist Girls Senior High School (MEGHIS) at Mamfe, Akuapem in the Eastern Region, where Cindy Aku Sika Addo, a final year student, died after falling sick. Her death was reported on Friday, July 17, 2020.
Top 10 Best SHSs in Ghana That Have Never Won The NSMQ •.
Each year, the National Science and Maths Quiz becomes a platform for senior high schools to show off. The alumni get behind their schools in the hope of winning the competition.
Winning the NSMQ has become an academic goal most schools work to achieve every academic year.
After winning the competition five times since its inception, Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School seems to be the team to beat each year.
However, there are other first class schools that have never won the NSMQ
Here are 10 of the first class senior high schools that have never won the NSMQ:
Wesley Girls’ Senior High School
The school was established in 1836 with 25 girls by the wife of a Methodist minister. It started as a primary school with the aim of offering girls training in reading and writing, sewing and house-keeping and spiritual development.
Wesley Girls’ High School was ranked 68th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumnae, school profile, internet, and news visibility.
The Accra Academy was the first private academy to be established in the Gold Coast, present-day Ghana. The academy is one of the foremost secondary educational institutions in Ghana and operates as a non-denominational day and boarding boys’ school, located at Bubuashie, near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region.
Aburi Girls
Aburi Girls’ Senior High School, formerly Aburi Girls’ Secondary School, also known as ABUGISS, is a Presbyterian all-girls’ senior high boarding school located south of Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The boys school of Aburi Girls is Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School also known as “PreSec”.
Archbishop Porter Girls
The Archbishop Porter Girls’ Secondary School is a female second cycle institution in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. Archbishop Porter Girls’ Secondary School is a Catholic institution within the Ghana Public Education System. While it welcomes girls of all religious denominations
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