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Teaching & EdTech
Choosing a home tutor: the questions that actually predict progress
Qualifications tell you what a tutor knows. These questions tell you whether your child will learn anything from them.
Exams & Results
Cut-off points explained: why a good aggregate still misses a programme
A cut-off point is not a pass mark set in advance. It is the aggregate of the last candidate admitted — which is why it moves every year and why nobody can tell you it in advance.
Study Abroad
The study-abroad timeline, worked backwards from the start of term
Applicants plan forwards from today and run out of time. Planning backwards from the intake date shows immediately whether a cycle is realistic.
Scholarships
How to spot a scholarship scam before it costs you money
Genuine scholarships do not charge an application fee, do not arrive by WhatsApp, and do not need your bank details to "release" funds. Here is the full checklist.
Teaching & EdTech
Marking faster without marking worse
Most marking time goes into comments students never read. Redirecting that effort is how teachers recover hours a week without lowering the standard of feedback.
Scholarships
Reading a scholarship advert properly before you spend three weeks on it
Most wasted scholarship applications were disqualified on the first page of the advert. Five checks, done in ten minutes, tell you whether to continue.
Teaching & EdTech
A lesson plan that survives contact with a real class
Most plans fail in the first ten minutes, for reasons that have nothing to do with the content. Here is what to build in so that yours does not.
Careers
Finding an internship that is not unpaid photocopying
The difference between a useful internship and a wasted vacation is almost always settled before it starts, in questions most students are too polite to ask.
Exams & Results
How the WASSCE aggregate is calculated, step by step
The aggregate is a sum of grade points from six subjects — the core, plus your three best electives. The rule about which electives count is where most errors happen.
About 1HR News
1HR News is an independent education publication and toolkit for Ghana. We report on what is happening across the education sector at home and abroad, we maintain a scholarship directory checked against each awarding body, and we build the practical tools that students, parents and teachers ask us for — starting with free grade and CGPA calculators that need no account.
Our services desk handles the things that are genuinely hard to do alone: buying a result checker, finding a tutor you can trust, and getting an admission or scholarship application over the line.