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Education
RSS FeedAfrica: Continent urged to catch up on early childhood education
2010-09-28, Issue 498
African governments have been called upon to show the political will and creativity to make up for the delay in early childhood education and care. According to statistics presented at the opening of the first world conference on childhood education ...
Zimbabwe: Leave for school-going mothers and fathers revoked
2010-09-21, Issue 497
Zimbabwe's education ministry has backtracked on a new policy, introduced in August 2010, to grant pregnant schoolgirls and the prospective fathers maternity and paternity leave from school, and has opted for disciplinary measures instead. "Learners ...
Africa: Education in poor countries hurt by financial crisis
2010-09-22, Issue 497
As world leaders meet this week to review a UN bid to cut poverty and hunger by 2015, the Global Campaign for Education warned that the financial crisis had halted improvements in education for children in impoverished countries. There are 69 million...
Africa: Toilets are key to good education
2010-09-22, Issue 497
As millions of children around the world start school this month, many are discovering something critical is missing. It's not teachers or textbooks - it's toilets. Poor sanitation doesn't just cause high rates of illness and absenteeism, but it also...
Africa: More commitment to education needed
2010-09-22, Issue 497
African nations lack the political will to provide access to primary education to all children, according to the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a coalition of organisations in 100 countries. In most countries on the continent, achieving basic e...
Mozambique: Sexual abuse preventing progress on education targets
Fred Katerere
2010-09-22, Issue 497
After she became a mother just before her 15th birthday, Diana Ricardo* was forced to drop out of school and give up her dreams of a brighter future. Ricardo says she was impregnated by a teacher, who afterwards refused paternity testing claiming he ...
Kenya: Africa must rethink MDG approach
2010-09-16, Issue 496
Academies (private schools) are reported to be growing in popularity as Kenyan middle class parents shun free primary school education, writes James Shikwati. 'Parents are subliminally communicating to policy makers that they prefer quality over the ...
Zimbabwe: No temporary teachers, less schooling
2010-09-17, Issue 496
A recent government directive forbidding unqualified teachers - estimated to comprise as much as 60 percent of the staff complement at rural schools - is causing severe disruptions to education. "It is surprising that the government has chosen to sto...
Zimbabwe: Distribution of key school supplies starts
2010-09-10, Issue 495
A major distribution of school supplies got under way today across Zimbabwe in an effort by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Government and international donors to ensure that every primary school student receives a textbook for all c...
Somalia: Getting an education against all odds
2010-08-13, Issue 494
Five years after a local charity opened a university to offer this bullet-scarred city’s youth an alternative to militia life and emigration, the first degrees have been awarded. "I want our people to know that education is the ladder of life and th...
Tunisia: Unemployment haunts college graduates
2010-07-30, Issue 492
Tunisian college graduates are prepared for the demands of their discipline, but face great challenges in finding a job in their own field. "Most of the institute graduates are still unemployed or have started working in fields not related to their d...
DRC: Where schools have flapping plastic walls
2010-07-30, Issue 492
It is a sunny day at the Mashango primary school in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) North Kivu Province. That is good news for teacher Dusaba Mbomoya who is holding a geography exam under a roof filled with holes in a classroom where flapp...
Africa: 2010 Distinguished Africanist Awards
2010-07-23, Issue 491
Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba and Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo were awarded, each separately and for their respective scholarship, the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award offered by the New York State African Studies Association (NYASA) on March...
Africa: African students to get common history syllabus
2010-07-15, Issue 490
In an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage, the UN, historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a history syllabus for schools across the continent. The new syllabus is to be based on the book...
Africa: Renewing the promise of Education for All
2010-07-16, Issue 490
The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school. It's temporary, of course: the winter holiday has been extended s...
Africa: Making education inclusive for all
2010-07-16, Issue 490
Educational inclusion relates to all children accessing and meaningfully participating in quality education, in ways that are responsive to their individual needs. The terms ‘inclusion’ and inclusive education’ are often used in relation to children ...
Somalia: School clubs help Somaliland children overcome trauma
2010-07-04, Issue 488
When Sabah Ismail Ali, a social worker in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland, first started working with children, truancy and aggression were common, especially among children from families with problems such as extreme poverty and displ...
Global: Education aid – is it value for money?
2010-06-25, Issue 487
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has escaped drastic cuts despite a tough austerity budget, but in a new report the National Audit Office has told the government it should get better value for aid to overseas primary education...
Swaziland: Free education becomes a reality
2010-06-04, Issue 484
At sundown, Thulani Gama tells his 10-year-old twin siblings to collect firewood while he grinds corn for their supper. At sunrise, he wakes the twins and tells them to wash. Without breakfast, all three children begin their hour-long walk to school ...
CAR: Education for nomadic families
2010-06-04, Issue 484
Fatima Yadik, a mother of 12 and grandmother of 18, recently settled in the Central African Republic town of Yaloké after 60 years with her nomadic community. Her camp of Peuhl nomads was attacked by bandits who killed all the men and stole their cat...
South Africa: Civil society organizations condemn ban on march for quality education
2010-05-28, Issue 483
A wide cross-section of civil society – unions, students organisations, faith based groups, community organisations and NGOs – with a collective membership of over a million people, strongly condemn the decision taken by the authorities to ban a peac...
West Africa: Universal Education an empty promise for Liberia's girls
2010-05-28, Issue 483
In a small office tucked behind the stairwell in Liberia’s Ministry of Education, the once-proud staff of the Girls’ Education Unit appear defeated. The workers in this fourth floor office, entrusted with charting a new course for the education of th...
CAR: Newly settled nomadic children go to school
2010-05-28, Issue 483
Fatima Yadik, a mother of 12 and grandmother of 18, recently settled in the Central African Republic town of Yaloké after 60 years with her nomadic community. Her camp of Peuhl nomads was attacked by bandits who killed all the men and stole their cat...
CAR: Education for nomadic families
2010-05-21, Issue 482
Fatima Yadik, a mother of 12 and grandmother of 18, recently settled in the Central African Republic town of Yaloké after 60 years with her nomadic community. Her camp of Peuhl nomads was attacked by bandits who killed all the men and stole their cat...
Morocco: Teachers protest rural postings
2010-05-21, Issue 482
Thirty Moroccan teachers are continuing a two-month hunger strike to highlight the issue of family reunification and the right of women to work near home. Many people with public-sector jobs, including those in education and health care, say that liv...
Africa: Ending the silence on violence in schools
2010-05-21, Issue 482
Bullying, sexual violence and corporal punishment are still rife in West and Central African schools, according to an 18 May report which calls on governments to harmonize laws on child protection and education, and impose stricter standards on schoo...
Burkina Faso: Education, not handouts
2010-05-21, Issue 482
“Bee-ba-ta a un bébé!” Seated on plastic mats, their sandals and book bags on the ground nearby, children follow text with chalk-dusted fingers as they practice reading. Months ago these children spent most of their time begging in the streets of the...
Southern Africa: Lesotho enacts free compulsory education
2010-05-17, Issue 481
The government of Lesotho has enacted the Education Act 2010, legalising the right to free and compulsory education. The act is hailed as "a historic landmark for the children of Lesotho" and will boost school enrollment. In Lesotho, free primary edu...
Southern Africa: 210,000 textbooks for Angolan students
2010-05-07, Issue 480
About 210,000 primary school students from eight of Angola's 18 provinces will benefit from two million text-books offered to the Ministry of Education by the European Union (EU)....
Tanzania: Lecturer's strike paralyses public universities
2010-04-30, Issue 479
Skeletal academic activity enveloped Tanzania's public universities Thursday as lecturers joined a strike to press for better retirement benefits from the government. While the government remained silent about the strike, a meeting of seven public hi...
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