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Education in 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.
  • Liberia lauds Confucius institute donations to boost education

    CHINA, 2016/03/23 The Liberian government has commended China's Confucius Institute at the University of Liberia for donating assorted educational, medical, sports and nutritional supplies to children at Lolognta Childhood Development Center in Sinkor, Monrovia. The donation is an extra manifestation of the authentic people to people friendship between China and Liberia, Minister of National for appropriate duties, Sylvester M. Grigsby, said at the handing over ceremony on Friday.
  • The school is a safe space says Mohamud. He sees himself as a role model.

    KENYA, 2016/03/13 India, Australia, Japan – the finalists for the World Teacher Prize come from all corners of the world. From 8,000 entries, the US based Varkey Foundation chose ten finalists for its $1million (911,000 euro) award for excellence in teaching. Ayub Mohamud is the only African finalist. He is a Kenyan teacher of Somali decent and has made a name for himself for his efforts to tackle the issues of radicalization and violent extremism in his community. Changing mindsets in 'Little Mogadishu' Based in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Mohamud teaches business studies and Islamic studies at Eastleigh High School in an inner-city neighborhood that residents have dubbed 'Little Mogadishu'. It's predominantly inhabited by ethnic Somalis and Kenyan authorities have identified it as one of the major recruiting grounds for Islamist militant group al-Shabab operating in the Horn of Africa.
  • Tanzania has no shortage of supply of natural oil and gas.

    TANZANIA, 2016/03/04 Like a lot of African nations, Tanzania has no shortage of supply of natural oil and gas. However, there is a shortage of skills and experience in this sector within Tanzania. To address this, multinational companies like GE are working hard to empower local people by building precious skills, and helping to ensure the sustainable development of the country. Currently Tanzania lacks an adequate number of drillers, engineers, managers, and production and operation workers to support the industry. This need for skills and training is a driving force behind three engineers from the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) joining other international participants in a four-month training programme at GE Oil & Gas University in Italy.
  • Tanzania has no shortage of supply of natural oil and gas.

    TANZANIA, 2016/03/04 Like a lot of African nations, Tanzania has no shortage of supply of natural oil and gas. However, there is a shortage of skills and experience in this sector within Tanzania. To address this, multinational companies like GE are working hard to empower local people by building precious skills, and helping to ensure the sustainable development of the country. Currently Tanzania lacks an adequate number of drillers, engineers, managers, and production and operation workers to support the industry. This need for skills and training is a driving force behind three engineers from the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) joining other international participants in a four-month training programme at GE Oil & Gas University in Italy.
  • 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.
  • ZIMBABWE Government bonds to fund higher education development

    ZIMBABWE, 2016/01/12 Zimbabwe’s government has resolved to issue higher and tertiary education bonds for the development of infrastructure at public universities, polytechnics and colleges. Presenting the country’s 2016 national budget in parliament recently, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the bonds would cover all public tertiary and higher education institutions. The bonds would pave the way for the construction of physical infrastructure that includes staff and student accommodation, lecture theatres, laboratories, workshops, sporting facilities, government blocks and student service centres. The minister said that additional than 117,000 students require accommodation.
  • SENEGAL, Budget rises to support higher education development

    DAKAR CITY, 2016/01/12 The higher education and research budget for 2016 will rise by additional than FCFA19 billion (US$31.7 million) to support Senegal’s development plan for the sector, Higher Education Minister Mary Teuw Niane has told parliament. He as well updated MPs on some government programmes, inclunding initial-year results from the country’s virtual university. The 2016 budget for higher education and research totals FCFA149 billion (US$249 million), compared with FCFA130 billion for 2015 – an increase of FCFA19 billion, reported Agence de Presse Sénégalaise, or APS, of Dakar.