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Education in North Africa

  • The Time is Now: Building a Human Economy for Africa

    AFRICA, 2016/05/13 For Africa this could not be additional evident as our major and best-educated generation is coming of age. By 2025, half of Africa’s people will be under the age of 25. They stand at the epicenter of the African Union’s people-driven schedule for the next half-century: it is they that will build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa. Leaders of Africa’s governments, business and civil society gather in Kigali for the World Economic Forum on Africa conference this week. They must place young people - particularly our most squandered talent, our girls - front and center of public policy discussion. These young people will need jobs, challenges, and outlets for their creativity. Investing in them, and building the “human economies” that can support them with opportunities, is paramount.
  • Azazy Group British schools a key pillar of Egyptian education system

    EGYPT, 2016/04/22 Azazy Group, a pioneer in education since 1958, has reached a whole new level with its partnership with Malvern College. In the presence of guests such as the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Prince Michael of Kent, the agreement was signed in December and marks a historic event for the country, being the initial time any top British school has opened an international branch in Egypt A landmark moment in Egypt’s education sector has been reached that brings together long-established British expertise with the republic’s enterprising next. On December 14 2014, Khaled Azazy, Chairman and CEO of the Cairo-based Azazy Group and representing the Worldwide Group for Investment and Development, officially signed an agreement to establish Egypt’s initial UK franchise school with the esteemed Malvern College.
  • African Union merges science and education bodies

    BOTSWANA, 2016/01/13 The Africa Union has merged its science and education bodies in a move designed to improve sectoral relationships, effectiveness and efficiency. The African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology and the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union will presently operate as one entity. “The decision of the heads of states was as well motivated by the need to streamline ministerial conferences, limit their number and confer the power to convene them to the African Union Commission and save costs,” Dr Mahama Ouedraogo, the African Union’s chief of human resources, science and technology, told University World News.
  • Euro-Mediterranean virtual energy university endorsed

    EGYPT, 2016/01/12 Five North African nations – Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – along with 38 European and Mediterranean states stand to benefit from a new initiative to set up an ‘energy university’ that will provide free, specialised education for energy professionals via an online platform. Senior officials of the 43 member states of the Union for the Mediterranean, or UfM, endorsed the new university during a conference in Barcelona, Spain, that was held next a high-level UfM conference entitled “Towards a Common Development Schedule for the Mediterranean” on 26 November.
  • Why local content in Africa’s extractive sector won’t work without home grown human capital

    AFRICA, 2015/11/21 For over 30 years a lot of African nations have been exploring their natural resources, whether oil, gas or minerals. In the last ten years a lot of additional have joined the natural resource exploitation club. A lot of have as well witnessed economic increase and development. Significant investments have been poured into the development and increase of the extractive industry on the continent. But there is a disconnect between the industry and institutions of higher education. These are supposed to provide and develop the necessary skills, competencies and human capital required to develop and manage the industry. But there is a substantial gap between the kinds of graduates that universities are producing and what extractive industries need.
  • More Education Is What Our Children Need is Africa

    AFRICA, 2015/09/19 Analysts looking at Africa from a western or developed perspective often quote demographics on the continent's young people as indicative of a prosperous next. In my view this is misguided at best and deluded at worst. Africa's young people is not a blessing, it is a weight on our resources and a critical impediment to faster development. In short, I believe the millions of unwanted children across the continent, are what is keeping us back. I do not see them as contributing to a prosperous next, only consuming by presently very scarce resources and diluting the prospects of the minority of the youth that will from presently on benefit from all the current "interventions" that are in vogue.
  • Left Behind – Girls' Education in Africa

    AFRICA, 2015/05/10 What would your life be like with only five years of schooling? For a lot of African girls, this is the majority education they can expect and they are the lucky ones. Across the region, 28 million girls roughly between the ages of 6 and 15 are not in school, and a lot of will at no time even set foot in a classroom. International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion to celebrate the tremendous evolution completed in girls’ access to education. But it is as well a stark reminder of the millions of girls who are being left behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Education for women and girls is vital to lifting millions out of poverty.

    AFRICA, 2013/09/16 The Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has said facilitating access to education for women and girls is vital to lifting millions out of poverty. Speaking Thursday at her initial news briefing at the UN headquarters in New York since taking office in August, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka said education for women and girls should be a priority for governments and international organisations to advance development. The new UN women chief, who is from South Africa, was appointed to the position in July.
  • Algeria’s education sector is crucial

    ALGIERS, 2013/06/14 In the 10 years since the launch of a broad-based teaching reform programme in 2003, Algeria has seen a number of initiatives targeting improvements in curriculum and instruction, but often with mixed results. In a bid to ensure that the existing reforms are able to have their intended result on the sector Algeria’s education minister is working with a variety of stakeholders to review both the evolution the country’s schools have made since 2003, along with the challenges they continue to face.
  • Africa starts rebuilding for a better self-image

    AFRICA, 2013/05/26  “What kind of Africa are we creating?”, a prominent Kenyan scholar and international consultant raised the question this week at an exclusive discussion about the continent’s governance and related economic, social and political issues. The session, however, came to an abrupt end formerly its fatigued participants reacted. They headed to their hotels with that question in mind, but the entire African citizenry should take it as a stimulus at the same time as they think about the next of this continent.