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  • 800 Electricians Pass Electrical Wiring Certification Exam in Ghana

    GHANA, 2015/09/19 Kumasi — A total of 800 candidates have passed the May/June 2005 edition of the Electrical Wiring Certification Examination in the Northern sector and have been awarded with certificates by the Energy Commission at its Fourth Certificate Award ceremony in Kumasi. The graduates, inclunding Corporal Abraham Kwabena Afful Odoom of the Communications Unit and Radio Workshop of the Regional Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service were awarded certificates in the Domestic, Commercial and Industrial categories. Mr. Michael Yeboah emerged the in general best candidate in the industrial category and received a set of tools donated by Tropical Cable and Conductor Limited. The Energy Commission has since 2013 collaborated with the Technical Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to conduct Electrical Wiring Practical Assessment Examination for electrical wiring professionals to meet the requirements of the Electrical Wiring Regulation Legislative Instrument 2008 of 2011 which requires that electrical wiring of buildings are done by only certified professional electricians an which the L.I. came into force last February.

  • Basic Education Committee Meets Stakeholders in Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth in South Africa

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/09/19 Parliament, Thursday 17 September 2015 - The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education today met with and listened to the concerns of various stakeholders in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The Committee is pleased with the attempt made by the Provincial Department of Education in filling the vacant posts in the province as a whole. The District Education Department indicated that some of the posts could not be filled as schools did not have vacancies for them. Most of the identified posts have been filled. They further indicated that some educators have not been paid due to bureaucratic systems.

  • Senator Cooper Pledges Collaboration With Booker Washington Institute in Liberia

    LIBERIA, 2015/09/19 Margibi County Senator Oscar Cooper has pledged to collaborate with the Booker Washington Institute (BWI) in getting students additional engaged through practical initiatives. He as well announced plans to shift from his regular rubber farming to the cultivation of oil palm, rice, cassava, pepper and potato greens, part others. The Senator made the assertion Tuesday at the dedication of a US$70,000 Soil Science Lab at BWI by USAID Food and Enterprise Development Program (USAID FED).

  • Use Schools for Nation-Building in Uganda

    UGANDA, 2015/09/19 One of the a lot of things that have been said about the fallen minister for Internal Affairs and former Chief of Defence Forces, General Aronda Nyakairima, is the fact that he studied at Kitgum High School in northern Uganda. As a result, Gen Nyakairima, who was last week found dead on a plane en route from South Korea to Dubai, was reported to be fluent in the Luo language despite hailing from south-western Uganda.

  • 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.

  • The government has closed all public and private schools in Kenya

    KENYA, 2015/09/19 he government has closed all public and private schools from Monday following the teachers' strike However, Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination candidates will remain in school, the Education ministry said on Friday. In a circular sent to education officials, Education Secretary Leah Rotich said the ministry had revised the school term dates for both private and public schools.

  • Rwanda, UK Sign £30.5 Million Deal to Support Basic Education

    RWANDA, 2015/09/13 The Governments of Rwanda and the United Kingdom, yesterday, signed a financing agreement worth £30.5m (about Rwf34 billion) to support basic education programmes. The four-year grant will be channeled through the Department for International Improvment(DFID) and is expected to boost Ministry of Education's Learning-For-All programme. The donation will as well help to deliver on improved learning and additional equitable access to primary and secondary education, Claver Gatete, the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, said during the signing ceremony.

  • Armed Groups Seize Schools in Central Africa Central

    CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC, 2015/09/13 Armed groups have been attacking schools in the Central African Republic and using them as bases amid persistent violence in the landlocked country, a charity network said on Thursday. In one incident at the same time as an armed group attacked peacekeeping troops near a Bangui high school, a lot of students were "allegedly used as human shields" and 80 children were later given medical treatment, according to Watchlist, a New York-based network of charities trying to end violations against children in conflict.

  • School Heads - We Are the Soft Target in Fight Against Striking Tutors,Kenya

    KENYA, 2015/09/13 School heads have accused their employer of using them to fight striking teachers. This is follows a decision by the Teachers Service Commission to send memos to 5,000 chief teachers asking them to show cause why they should not be punished for failing to rein in teachers, who have been boycotting classes for a week presently. The principals said they will contact their lawyers over the memos. Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (Kessha) chairman John Awiti yesterday said they are not happy to be the initial to receive memos.

  • Rwanda, UK Sign £30.5 Million Deal to Support Basic Education

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/09/12 The Governments of Rwanda and the United Kingdom, yesterday, signed a financing agreement worth £30.5m (about Rwf34 billion) to support basic education programmes. The four-year grant will be channeled through the Department for International Improvment(DFID) and is expected to boost Ministry of Education's Learning-For-All programme. The donation will as well help to deliver on improved learning and additional equitable access to primary and secondary education, Claver Gatete, the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, said during the signing ceremony.
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