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  • IEPA Joins Other UNESCO Educational Centres Worldwide to Celebrate International Day of Education 2022
    IEPA Joins Other UNESCO Educational Centres Worldwide to Celebrate International Day of Education 2022

    The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre for West Africa, located at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast - Ghana, joins other UNESCO Educational Centres to celebrate the “International Day of Education 2022”.

    This year’s celebrations, the fourth to be celebrated since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution for its celebration on 3rd December 2018, is being observed under the theme, “Changing Course, Transforming Education”.

  • COVID-19 study on School Closures
    More Insights on the IEPA/CGD COVID-19 study on School Closures

    The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) and the Centre for Global Development (CGD) continue to explore the data for more insights in the study dubbed PREPARE on how COVID-19 impacted school closures. 

    As discussed in previous blogs, COVID -19 pandemic had its toll on Ghana and in March 2020, just like other countries across the world, Ghana embarked on a nationwide closure of schools as part of measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  • Ghana Education Service in response to COVID-19 Pandemic
    Is GL-TV by the Ghana Education Service in response to COVID-19 Pandemic Effective?

    On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID -19 a pandemic as the virus raged through countries of the world. Ghana had two waves of COVID-19, first peaking in July 2020 and the second in February 2021. Currently, the country is experiencing a third wave with infection and death numbers rising by the day. 

  • IEPA, UCC welcomes one Visiting Professor from Nigeria and Two Fulbright Scholars from the USA to Support its UNESCO Agenda
    IEPA, UCC welcomes one Visiting Professor from Nigeria and Two Fulbright Scholars from the USA to Support its UNESCO Agenda

    The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) is welcoming three international Professors - one on Sabbatical Leave from Nigeria and two Fulbright Scholars from the United States - to join its dynamic team to drive the UNESCO SDG 4 Agenda. 

  • Research on the Impact of COVID -19 on Schools in Ghana
    IEPA - CGD Collaborates on Research on the Impact of COVID -19 on Schools in Ghana

    The COVID-19 pandemic had its toll on the affairs of the global population thereby challenging the so-called normal way of doing things. Most impactful for us in education fraternity and champions of provision of social justice is that beginning from March 2020 there was historic closure of schools as part of measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without doubt, just like many other countries across the world, Ghana’s education system and structures were impacted.