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  • Liberia: Paying Off All Private School Loans - Mills Jones Has Done It Again

    LIBERIA, 2015/01/07 He is truly an A student with a difference. For there are a lot of like him who sailed through school with top academic honors but are missing in action in life. Not Joseph Mills Jones, who topped his classes from the time he entered school and sailed through Cuttington in three years; worked briefly at Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs; and got a fellowship to study Economics and Econometrics (the Mathematics of Economics). He returned home the very next day next receiving his Doctorate--didn't spend a day additional in America doing other people's business. He wanted to serve his country, so returned to Planning. Later he opted for broader international experience and got employed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he rose to the position of Senior Advisor to the Managing Director. Dr. Jones again moved on to an extra senior post at the World Bank. It was from there that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf tapped him to chief the Central Bank of Liberia.

  • First Group of Graduates Emerge from GE Garages Program in Lagos

    AFRICA, 2014/12/15 Dangote Foundation Partnership Affirmed Participants Trained on Product Development, Entrepreneurship, and Advanced Manufacturing Twenty-eight Nigerians graduated from a pilot of the Lagos Garages programme, powered by GE. Over six weeks the graduates were trained on Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Sales and Marketing inclunding the new manufacturing technologies to enable innovation through rapid prototyping. The programme is dedicated to accelerating the impact of Nigeria's most promising entrepreneurs. GE and Dangote Foundation announced that their collaboration on the Lagos Garage, transforming the initiative to a multi-year series of skills building programmes would be launched in 2015. GE is expanding on its completed successes by working with The Dangote Foundation to build the next generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs.

  • Rwanda Govt Moves to Increase Access to Pre-Primary Education

    RWANDA, 2014/12/11 Government has rolled out a programme to have a nursery classroom built at a primary school in each of the country's 416 sectors, a move that is expected to help improve access to nursery education, a top government official has said. Olivier Rwamukwaya, the Minister of National in charge of Primary and Secondary Education, was speaking yesterday during a consultative conference with senators in the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Human Rights and Petitions. Access to nursery education in the country remains a challenge, with only 13 % of three-year-olds in pre-primary education countrywide. Rwamukwaya said a lot of parents, particularly in rural areas, are from presently on to understand the importance of taking toddlers to nursery schools.

  • Central African Republic – Education

    CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC, 2014/12/11 Bangui/ Dakar/ Geneva/ New York — Hundreds of thousands of children in conflict-hit Central African Republic - some of whom have missed up to two years of formal education - will have the luck to get back to school as a campaign gets underway. The initiative, supported by UNICEF, aims to help 662,000 children resume their studies, as schools gradually reopen in safer areas of the country. By the end of December UNICEF and partners will provide education supplies such as schools-in-a-box, a kit containing essentials like exercise books and pencils, and school backpacks to approximately 400,000 students, as part of nationwide efforts led by local authorities. "The reopening of schools is a ray of hope for children who haven't entered a classroom for months and even years," said Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF Representative in Central African Republic. "Where it's safe, children can and should go back to school. Where it's too dangerous, we do all we can so they can learn - even without a formal classroom."

  • Liberia: Uncertainty Looms Over Reopening of Schools

    LIBERIA, 2014/12/03 Recommencement of academic activities in the country remain uncertain as the Ministry of Education (MOE) looks desperately to authorities of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOH/SW), and the World Health Organization (WHO) to determine at the same time as it shall be safe for schools to resume normal function. Deputy Education Minister for Instruction, Hawa Goll-Kotchi, told reporters over the weekend in Monrovia that the authorization to reopen schools was depending on the MOH/SW and WHO.

  • Kenya: Thika Primary School Gets E-Learning Library

    KENYA, 2014/12/03 Pupils from Thika Primary School in Kiambu County are set to benefit from a new library refurbished and equipped by Samsung Electronics East Africa. The school, which was selected with the assistance of the Municipality of Thika Education office, has a people of over 600 pupils and 23 teachers and will be the initial to benefit from the project that will see additional children exposed to e-learning while still in primary school. The newly renovated library will be able to accommodate up to 30 pupils at once, and has been equipped with books and Samsung Galaxy Tabs equipped with curriculum-compliant e-books which will help build their language skills both in English and Kiswahili. Speaking at the same time as he presented the facility to the school, Samsung East and Central Africa Chief of Corporate Marketing Patricia King'ori said the project was in line with Samsung's commitment to improving the lives of the communities it operates in, having identified quality education as one of the pillars of sustainable development.

  • Malawi: CECOM Worried Over MSCE 'Poor Results'

    MALAWI, 2014/12/03 The Catholic Education Commission of Malawi (CECOM) has expressed concerns on the performance of students who sat for the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) who have with passed with 54.8% pass rate citing that the result questions the country's education standards . In the exams out of 130, 293 candidates who wrote the examination, 71,486 qualified for the award of MSCE certificate. In a press release signed by CECOM's National Educational Policy Officer Steven Ndhlovu, the body cited that the pass rate shows that there is something wrong with the education system in the country.

  • Zimbabwe: Offensive Against First Lady Exposed

    ZIMBABWE, 2014/10/19 VICE President Dr Joice Mujuru's thesis is by presently in the University of Zimbabwe Library barely a month next she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree along with 11 other graduands part them Initial Lady Dr Grace Mugabe. Investigations by The Herald, however, show that out of the 12 doctorates, only the VP's thesis titled "A Strategic Exploratory Entrepreneurship Study of Sustainable Agricultural Business: Case Studies of Mitchel and Mitchel in Mashonaland East and Dotito Irrigation Scheme in Mashonaland Central Province" is on the library shelf and has been archived. The Initial Lady and Vice President were part of the 12 doctorate holders capped by UZ Chancellor, President Mugabe on September 12, the others being:

  • Students Union Takes Grace PhD Fight to Court; Zimbabwe

    ZIMBABWE, 2014/10/19 THE Zimbabwe National Student Union (ZINASU) said it has mobilised over 2,000 signatures of students from all the country's universities which they will attach to a court application challenging the awarding of Grace Mugabe Grace a PHD by the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The development comes as the National-run Herald newspaper claimed there was a sinister schedule to embarrass President Mugabe's wife while propping up Vice President Joice Mujuru who as well graduated with a PhD at the same time as Grace. In a statement Wednesday, the newspaper questioned the fact that Mujuru's thesis is by presently available in the UZ library while Grace's is not - an absence used by the privately-owned media to back claims that the Initial Lady's PhD award could have been irregular.

  • Nigeria: Relief as Schools Finally Resume After Ebola Scare

    LIBERIA, 2014/10/19 IT was great relief for parents, pupils, school proprietors and even books and accessories sellers as schools finally resumed Wednesday for the 2014/2015 academic schedule. The resumption date for primary and secondary schools in the country, before fixed for September 22, suffered series of postponements following the outbreak of the Ebola virus, no thanks to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian, who imported the virus into Nigeria.
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