The International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE) is seeking a dynamic and energetic full time Project Coordinator to work on this intensive, month-long, international, interdisciplinary course in human rights that is offered each June-July. The IHRE consists of a consortium of 14 partner universities and colleges in Southern Africa and the United States. The Project Coordinator is formally employed by the South African secretariat which is based at the University of Cape Town and is subject to its personnel and administrative policies.

For a long time, lecturers of the public universities in Kenya have stagnated at a salary which cannot sustain their livelihoods for even a week. Due to this situation, it has been very difficult since 1989 for most university departments to attract new members of staff. Attrition of the staff members has been on the increase, and most of those who have remained have been forced to moonlight and engage in other activities that leave very little room for serious academic work. This is a very unfortunate situation. The consequence, as in many other universities in Africa, has been the tendency for academic standards to fall. Education, and especially higher education for any nation is an investment in the future.

All students completing secondary school by 2008 will be required to be computer literate, according to a Nepad plan. They will be followed by primary school leavers five years later in 2012 if the New Partnership for Africa's Development e-schools initiative succeeds. Prof Peter Kinyanjui, the Nepad programme coordinator, said yesterday the schools initiative, which would eventually serve the entire African continent, would require sufficiently trained teachers in information and communication technology (ICT).