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For several months now students at the University of Zambia have engaged in frequent protests and clashes with police over the conditions at the institution, raising some worries that the situation may escalate beyond control. This morning UNZA students staged a large protest over the removal of subsidies of both fuel and mealie-meal that they said had led to an
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Over 21,000 primary and secondary education teachers have been on strike in the Angolan southwestern province of Huíla, since April 29, leaving more than 700,000 students sitting at home. It is the first time, in more than a decade, that a union has been able to achieve such level of support and mobilization. On April 30, the National Police detained
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Lome - Some public school teachers in Togo refused a government call to return to their classrooms on Monday, closed for a week amid student protests which left two dead in the west African nation. Government had ordered teachers to resume work on Monday, a week after closing all primary and secondary schools, citing considerable damage caused during protests. But
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Rabat — Jailed Moroccans will have access to books, thanks to a new human rights partnership between prison administrators and universities. "More than 5,000" books will be distributed to some 60 prisons across the kingdom, Moroccan National Human Rights Council (CNDH) Secretary-General Mohamed Sebbar said on March 14th, after signing the agreement with the Faculty of Arts in Rabat. "The
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Liberia's post-war education program is said to be faced with various challenges, including decline in quality primarily necessitated by lack of trained instructors and facilities. Reporting to the 53rd Liberian Legislature on Monday, 28 January 2013in joint session at the Capitol on the state of the nation in 2012, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said despite high enrollment in schools across the
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Harare — Zimbabwe's education system, once regarded as the finest on the continent, was a casualty of the country's economic meltdown in the 2000s, when it nearly collapsed - but lately there have been signs of recovery. The education malaise was widely blamed on hyperinflation, which made teachers' salaries worthless and funding for school materials and maintenance impossible. But with
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Public schools across the country are set to close on Thursday as coalitions and political parties prepare to conduct nominations ahead of the January 18 deadline. This comes after the government through the head of the civil service Francis Kimemia made the announcement of the closure to pave way for the party primaries. IEBC chief executive officer James Oswago had
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Nairobi — The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has warned that it will disrupt the opening of schools in September unless the government starts negotiations on a 300 percent pay increase for teachers and fulfils a deal reached in 1997. Deputy Secretary General Savior Nyamu who spoke to journalists at the KNUT headquarters on Wednesday said that the government
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Thanks to school canteens, Senegalese students have been able to score good in school, according to Prof. Abdoulaye Diagne, the director of the Consortium for Economic and Social Research (CRES) quoting the findings of a recent study. Prof. Diagne, who was making a presentation Tuesday in Dakar on the results of a survey on the impact of school canteens by
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Lagos - Authorities shut a Nigerian university after students protesting a name change at the Lagos institution blocked a major bridge on Wednesday, causing heavy traffic backups. About 1 000 students took to the Third Mainland Bridge, which connects the port city of some 15 million people to its islands, where many businesses are located. Lagos is Nigeria's commercial hub
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Many of the children suffering from the nodding disease syndrome have developed severe mental retardation and cannot go back to school to continue with education, a clinical officer in charge of Palabek-Kal Health Centre III, Dorothy Akwero, has said. Akwero said most of the 61 patients, who were diagnosed with nodding disease at Palabek-Kal treatment centre, have failed to report
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Bamako - Administrators and parents say schools have reopened in the city of Timbuktu for the first time since an Islamic faction seized control of the tourist destination last month and is working to impose Shari'ah law. Mahmoud Djitteye, a member of the school district in Timbuktu, said that a small number of students headed to school Monday. He said
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Lagos - Authorities on Tuesday shut Nigeria's oldest university after a two-day protest by students over poor infrastructure in the institution, students and teachers said. Authorities shut down for two weeks the University of Ibadan in southwest Nigeria after students staged a peaceful protest in and around the campus over the lack of water and electricity on the campus, they
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Mbabane - Students in Swaziland demanding democracy and scholarships marched in Mbabane on Monday, their small numbers illustrating the difficulties of igniting a reform movement in sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarchy. The peaceful protest was originally scheduled last week, then postponed as organisers struggled to get it off the ground. On Monday, it drew about 500 people, who were closely
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Sumbawanga — MPANDA District Commissioner, Dr Rajab Rutengwe on Wednesday ordered a crackdown starting on Thursday of parents and the guardians who have not sent their daughters to school. Dr Rutengwe said the order follows a report that 15 girls who excelled in their final Standard Seven Examinations last year, have not yet reported to their respective schools. The schools
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Petauke — GOVERNMENT has said it plans to completely scrap all fees in schools but is currently constrained by the huge amounts of money being spent on the purchase of maize through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA). Vice-President Guy Scott said this when he paid a courtesy call on Chief Nyamphande of the Nsenga-speaking people at his palace in Petauke
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend decried the poor African and international ranking of Nigerian universities, saying older universities, particularly the University of Nigeria, must endeavour to change the situation. Jonathan stated that the recent ratings which indicated that “no Nigerian university is among the top 10 providers of tertiary institutions in Africa, not to mention globally” was unacceptable. He declared that
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Harare - Public schools in Zimbabwe's capital were deserted on Tuesday, the second day of a strike by civil servants demanding a doubling of basic wages and better work conditions. An AFP correspondent visiting government schools around Harare found only a few staffers and some senior pupils milling around, as more teachers heeded a call by the main state workers
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The Minister of Education, Mrs Betty Mould –Iddrisu, on Sunday said the Government considered early childhood education a priority as a long term solution to Ghana’ s economic and social problems. She said government through the Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies demonstrated its commitment to the wellbeing of the Ghanaian child and ratification of various global policy framework such as
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Libya's 1.2 million schoolchildren returned to classrooms nationwide on Saturday, to learn a revamped curriculum that includes the revolution that ousted Moamer Kadhafi and purges his personal teachings. The country's old textbooks have been revised to eliminate chapters that "glorified" Kadhafi with new material added on the nine-month conflict that led to his downfall and death, Education Minister Suleyman Ali
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Reports about a looming crisis in public schools over the provision of textbooks is worrying. But they underscore a much deeper problem afflicting schools, and for that matter, the entire education system. Public schools depend on State funding to procure exercise and textbooks, as well as other teaching and learning materials. Under an agreement reached in 2003 when the free
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ONE of the unheralded events in the improvement of higher education in the country in year 2011 was the quiet gesture from Dr Mike Adenuga Jr. to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Enugu State. He gave the frontline institution the princely sum of N150 million. The gift, according to his representative, was a gesture of goodwill "to this great
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Tamale– A Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Mahama Ayariga, has noted that a dysfunctional educational system is the greatest threat to any nation's security. Mr Ayariga stressed that a dysfunctional public education system that produce unskilled and functionally illiterate youth and adults unsuitable for employment is the greatest threat to national security and not small arms proliferation or ethnic conflicts.
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Maputo — The Japanese government on Monday formalised grants of about 280,000 US dollars to finance education and water projects in Mozambique, which will be undertaken by NGOs. The two education projects involve building classrooms in the Lili Primary School in Nacala district, in the northern province of Nampula, and in the Estrela do Mar Industrial and Commercial School, in
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Sierra Leone - A city in Sierra Leone is offering a five-year scholarship to girls who keep their virginity until they complete university. The aim is to cut teenage pregnancies by ensuring "that at least 80% of school going girls keep their virginity until they finish their educational life", said Mathew Margao, council chairman in southern city of Bo. "The
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