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2012-01-31, Issue 568
Police in Swaziland fired teargas on Monday 30 January at students protesting their university's failure to open for the semester, injuring several people, a student leader said. Police arrested at least four demonstrators after students of the Unive...
Malawi: Lecturers resume work, but tensions persist
2012-01-17, Issue 566
Lecturers in Malawi have resolved to return to work to end nearly a year of academic freedom protests during a long-running impasse with the government. But with tensions and mistrust persisting, lecturers have been firm about setting out the conditi...
Ethiopia: Drought, floods hit education
2012-01-19, Issue 566
Parts of Ethiopia are still reeling from the effects of recent drought, flooding, conflict or a combination of the three, resulting in increased numbers of children dropping out of school, say officials. At least 385,000 school-children need 'emergen...
Zimbabwe: Teachers threaten to strike
2012-01-10, Issue 565
Zimbabwe's minister of education, David Coltart, says he is 'powerless' to stop a strike by the country's civil servants, as teachers press for higher salaries of $540 - more than double their current $250 paycheck - in a fresh sign of trouble that t...
South Africa: Stampede highlights education chaos
2012-01-10, Issue 565
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's 'wonderful problem' came back to haunt him when a woman was killed and 17 people injured in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg. Speaking at a hastily convened press conference following the acciden...
Tanzania: North-South partnerships are not the answer
2011-11-27, Issue 559
Government cuts in research and development (R&D) funding for higher education institutions have compelled public universities in Sub-Saharan Africa to establish extensive partnerships with universities, technology and research centres in the North. ...
DRC: Millions miss out on basic education
2011-11-16, Issue 558
Access to basic education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains poor, with up to seven million children across the vast country out of school - despite a 2010 government decision to make primary education free. DRC is still struggling to ...
Kenya: Lecturers' strike suspended
2011-11-17, Issue 558
A week-long lecturers' strike has been suspended to allow pay negotiations between the government and university unions. Labour minister John Munyes announced that the tutors are expected to resume teaching immediately and talks will begin in two wee...
Zimbabwe: Thousands of girls forced out of education
2011-11-09, Issue 557
Poverty, abuse and cultural practices are preventing a third of Zimbabwean girls from attending primary school and 67 per cent from attending secondary school, denying them a basic education, according to a recent study which found alarming dropout r...
Malawi: Main university college to finally re-open
2011-11-09, Issue 557
The University Council has announced that Chancellor College, the main constituent college of the University of Malawi, at the centre of a protracted academic freedom wrangle, will be finally re-opened 14 November. Zomba-based Chancellor College has ...
Kenya: More varsities set to close as strike enters sixth day
2011-11-14, Issue 557
The strike by lecturers in public universities enters its sixth day Monday with a possibility of more institutions shutting down. At the weekend, students at Chepkoilel University College in Eldoret were sent home indefinitely. The constituent colleg...
Zambia: Three new universities, job creation planned
2011-11-01, Issue 556
Zambia's newly elected President Michael Sata has outlined plans to review the higher education sector as well as establish three new universities, to fulfil his election manifesto. Job creation for higher education graduates would also be prioritise...
Tanzania: Whose business is development of education?
2011-11-02, Issue 556
Education is priority number one in Tanzania: the education budget has grown, primary school enrolment is close to universal, and secondary school enrolment is expanding fast. But, writes Rakesh Rajani, head of Twaweza, a ten-year initiative to promo...
Zimbabwe: Parents struggle to pay teacher incentives
2011-11-02, Issue 556
As concerns deepen about the quality of education in Zimbabwe, parents can expect an indefinite extension of subsidising teacher salaries as the cash- strapped government struggles to meet the bloated civil service wage bill. Teacher incentives - a s...
Côte d’Ivoire: Pupils go back to school, slowly
2011-11-07, Issue 556
The new school year began at the end of October in Côte d’Ivoire but is getting off to slow start as students struggle to return to study after post-election violence disrupted education in many schools for months. In the west of the country along th...
Global: Countries struggling to meet rising demand for secondary education
2011-10-26, Issue 554
The global demand for secondary education has risen exponentially, says a new United Nations report, which adds that governments, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are having a hard time keeping up and many children are being left out. The 2011 Globa...
Malawi: University lecturers discuss Mutharika guarantee on academic freedom
2011-10-27, Issue 554
Lecturers at Chancellor College, the main constituent college of the University of Malawi, were meeting Tuesday to decide whether the directive and assurances given by President Bingu wa Mutharika met their conditions in the eight-month academic free...
Africa: Non-traditional teaching promoted for girls
2011-10-18, Issue 553
Making some simple, basic changes in education policy can result in many more girls attending school, experts said at a meeting here this week on Gender Equality in Education. Take the case of Kenya. The United Nations says that the country has made ...
Global: Women and the teaching profession
2011-10-13, Issue 552
The study presents findings from Dominica, Lesotho, India, Samoa and Sri Lanka. It explores the feminisation debate from a variety of perspectives that have dominated much of the discourse on the role of women teachers within expanding education syst...
Tanzania: Most children perform below standard in Kiswahili, English and numeracy
2011-10-05, Issue 551
Uwezo Tanzania has completed its second Annual Learning Assessment and has found results similar to its first year: only three in 10 Standard Three pupils can read a Standard Two level Kiswahili story, only one in 10 Standard Three pupils can read a ...
Zimbabwe: Children 'condemned to life without education'
2011-10-05, Issue 551
Thousands of children in Zimbabwe, who were forcibly evicted from their homes six years ago, are still not receiving proper education, a rights group says. The government had promised 700,000 families a better life when it demolished slums in major c...
Morocco: School year begins with controversy
2011-09-28, Issue 550
Over six million Moroccan children set off to schools a few days ago. This year, the beginning of the school term was accompanied with lively debates over the future of the kingdom's state education system. Moroccans have voiced little confidence in ...
Nigeria: Strike cripples varsities
2011-09-29, Issue 550
There was total compliance 26 September to the one-week nationwide warning strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, disrupting examinations in the nation's premier university, University of Ibadan, University of Jos and paralysing academ...
Benin: Campaign unveiled to keep children in school
2011-10-03, Issue 550
Benin has launched a major campaign to arrest growing drop-out rates as schools begin a new term. The one-year campaign is expected to encourage parents to allow their children to stay enrolled in school. With a national enrolment rate of 87.3 per ce...
Eritrea: Illiteracy rate drops by 45 per cent
2011-09-20, Issue 549
An Eritrean Ministry of Education statement issued in connection with International Literacy Day has found that the nation's illiteracy rate has been reduced by 45% and attributes progress to the preparation of textbooks as well as an adult education...
Gambia: Educationists reaffirm commitment to higher education
2011-09-21, Issue 549
Educationists from the two sister Ministries of Basic and Secondary Education; and Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology recently stepped up efforts that seek to pave the way forward in achieving a more vibrant higher education policy ro...
Zimbabwe: To South Africa in search of an education
2011-09-21, Issue 549
The collapse of affordable schooling in Zimbabwe is leading thousands of children to make a perilous trek to South Africa. But some of those who make it, penniless, to Johannesburg, get what they want - a top-quality education....
Africa: Pan-African awards for entrepreneurship in education
2011-09-21, Issue 549
Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education is a competition initiated by Teach A Man To Fish and generously sponsored by partner organisation Educating Africa. It continues to reward organizations in Africa that use innovative and entrepren...
Kenya: 12 challenges facing computer education in schools
2011-09-14, Issue 547
While ICT continues to advance in western and Asian countries, African countries still experience a lag in its implementation, and that continues to widen the digital and knowledge divides. A study by Kiptalam et.al observed that access to ICT facili...
Africa: In universities, quantity threatens quality
2011-09-14, Issue 547
Uganda's Makerere reflects the crisis facing many African universities – how to fund higher education amid rising demand for places and concerns about falling academic standards, argues a piece on The Guardian's Poverty Matters blog....
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