From the Skuulbe team
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Leadership
Friday Is a Day on Teacher Well-Being. Start With a Question.
Friday's training day is about teacher well-being, and learners stay home. One question asked of every teacher will tell you more than the session will.
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Money Matters
The Fee Is One Number. The Bill Is Another.
Parents add up books, uniforms and levies whether or not the school does. A one-page list of every cost, totalled per class, lets you do the sum first.
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Technology for School Leaders
A Parent Can't Check a Message. They Can Check a Rule.
A message that borrows your bursar's name is impossible for a parent to verify. One signed notice, sent before Term 2 fees, gives them something they can.
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Money Matters
5.2% Is the Country's Inflation. Yours Is Probably Higher.
September inflation was 5.2%, but services ran at 8.3%, and services are most of what a school buys. Before the Term 2 fee conversation, price your own five biggest lines.
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Leadership
The Strike Was Suspended on a Calendar
Two weeks of closed public classrooms ended when promises to teachers got dates. Your own staff are reading the same signal, whether or not you've written yours down.
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Leadership
You May Hold the Ceremony. Nobody Said You Should.
GNACOPS settled the legal question — private schools aren't bound by the graduation ban. The judgment question is still open, and it's yours alone this month.
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Money Matters
Ghana's Inflation Rate Is 5%. Your Diesel Bill Just Went Up 18% in One Pricing Window.
August is fee-setting season, and the CPI headline undersells what a school's actual costs are doing. A four-line method for building next year's fee from your own basket, not the news.
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Education Brief
Selection Is Over. The Real Wait Starts Now.
SHS selection closed Friday, but placement results — and WAEC's ruling on 2,722 withheld results — both land on the same day, 31 August. A routine for the three weeks in between, when most schools go quiet.
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Education Brief
This Week, Every JHS Family Chooses From Eight Schools. A Few Can't Choose At All.
Selection closes Friday for every JHS candidate in the country — but 2,722 students with withheld results can't choose at all yet. A two-column routine for tracking both groups without losing either.
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Technology for School Leaders
What Two Education Summits Said About AI — and the Part Worth Holding Onto
Two African education summits arrived at the same conclusion independently: clarity comes before tools, not after. Three questions worth answering before adopting any system.
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Running a Better School
The Schools That Open Well in September Started This Week
Nine weeks to reopening. Three parallel tracks — facilities, admissions, staffing — that converge into one emergency in August if not run together, starting now.
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Leadership
September's Staffing Crisis Is Decided in July — Usually by Silence
The long vacation is the resignation season. Three questions to ask every staff member you can't afford to lose, before this term ends.
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Money Matters
An Unpaid Balance in July Is a Request. In September It Is a Loss.
Fee balances don't age evenly — a balance that crosses the long vacation often never gets paid. A one-page routine to run before term closes.
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Education Brief
Results Week: Run It — Don't Let It Happen to You
For the first time, families select senior high schools after seeing BECE results. The schools that run results week well decide four things before results drop.