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  • Congo's Minister for Women Promotion and Integration in Development, Catherine Embondza Lipiti

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2014/10/14 Congo's Minister for Women Promotion and Integration in Development, Catherine Embondza Lipiti has appealed to different stakeholders in the country to promote and protect the rights of girls, particularly with regard to education. Despite the significant evolution made in improving girls' access to education and keeping them at school during the completed 20 years, a lot of disadvantaged girls still do not benefit from this fundamental right, she said Saturday as Congo observed International Day of the Girl Child. 'In our societies, at the same time as a woman is educated at least up to elementary level, this positively reflects on the social and economic life of the household and the family. This is as well an chance to the society and to the economy of the country,' the minister observed.

  • Tanzania: Tarime to Construct 20 School Laboratories

    TANZANIA, 2014/09/01 TARIME District Council says it would successfully implement the directive by President Jakaya Kikwete to build laboratories in all public secondary schools within shortest possible time. The council plans to start building a total of 20 laboratories any time from presently. Aim is to have all the laboratories ready by November, this year, according to the Tarime District Council Chairman, Mr Amos Sagara. "We are going to construct 20 modern laboratories in all 20 wards with secondary schools and equip them with learning facilities," Mr Sagara told the 'Daily News' in Tarime on Sunday.

  • The senior education advisor for a confederation of European non-government organizations,

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2014/05/20 The senior education advisor for a confederation of European non-government organizations, Light for the World, maintains that millions of children with disabilities have a right to inclusive education in a regular school. Nafisa Baboo knows what she's talking about. She is visually impaired and she excelled in her school classes. World Education Week recently took place during which additional than 100 campaigners, advocates and NGOs worldwide spoke up in favor of strengthening learning for all children inclunding those with disabilities, as part of the World Campaign for Education. Mainstream education is a basic right

  • Education and Human Resources Minister Vasant Bunwaree

    MAURITIUS, 2014/04/19 Education and Human Resources Minister Vasant Bunwaree on Thursday stressed the need to encourage the protection of nature in the interest of the present and future generations and to better prepare today’s youth for tomorrow’s challenges. Speaking at an international conference on Science, Technology, Gender and Sustainable Development, focussing on challenges and opportunities 2025 at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Moka, south of the capital, Bunwaree said Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Mauritius are economically vulnerable to changes in society and that resilience should be taught early through the use of technology.

  • Jean Pierre Kimbuya, has welcomed the project called '100,000 Teachers for Africa'

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2014/03/31 The General Secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Congo (SYECO), Jean Pierre Kimbuya, has welcomed the project called '100,000 Teachers for Africa', launched by the French government Thursday on the occasion of the celebration of the International Francophone Day. 'This programme will help improve quality of education,' Kimbuya told the press. However, he added, African nations sharing the French language, particularly the DRC, should, apart from this programme, mobilize resources for the teaching of French, improve the working conditions of teachers and their wages inclunding add price to the teaching career and as well think about the retirement of teachers.

  • Education workers union urges members to continue strike

    BENIN, 2014/03/18 An education sector union in Benin has called on its members to continue with their strike following a failed negotiation with the country's President. In a statement made on Sunday, the union said the outcome of the talks was not positive for teachers as far as their specific demands are concerned, which is the cause of the strike that started 24 Jan. 'The union urges male and female teachers from all sectors, from pre-school stage to the secondary, to continue strongly the strike in order not to fall once again into the governmental trickery by presently experienced in 2012,' the statement said. The union expressed regret that the 25% fee increase for all civil servants in August 2011 is still being confused with the incentive allowance for teachers, which was granted in 2005.

  • 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Accra.

    GHANA, 2014/03/15 The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has presented the National Distinction Awards to the best candidates in the 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Accra. The award is to reward outstanding performance of school candidates at the 2013 WASSCE. At a ceremony to present the award, the Deputy Minister for Education, Mr. Alex Kyeremeh, condemned the level of examination malpractices which, he said, portrayed the extent of moral decadence in the society. Mr Kyeremeh urged WAEC to continue with the interventions that it had embarked upon to curb examination malpractices.

  • Government has tasked the Minister of Education Dr David Namwandi

    NAMIBIA, 2014/03/15 Government has tasked the Minister of Education Dr David Namwandi to formulate a plan that will see secondary education being offered for free at all national schools. Free secondary education is expected to start by 2016 . This will come hot on the heels of government having started to offer free primary education in 2013 in accordance with Article 20 of the Namibian Constitution. President Hifikepunye Pohamba revealed this during the inauguration of the Mutual Keetmanshoop Mall yesterday morning.

  • Japan build a primary school block in Pita, Guinea

    GUINEA, 2014/03/09 The Japanese government on Thursday granted Guinea US$122,000 to build a primary school block in Pita, central Guinea. The money would be used to build six new classrooms fitted with decent toilets which will be added to the three others by presently in place. The Japanese ambassador in Guinea Naotsugu Nakano said his government had stepped up its support to the Guinean education sector to enhance the universal education objective at the primary school level. The completion rate pupils in primary school that stood at 27% in 2000-2001 shot up to 60% in 2005-2006.

  • School with 500 pupils is facing closure next the public health statement

    KENYA, 2014/03/03 KAGWA Primary School in West Uyoma, Rarieda subcounty has been given a 21- day notice by the department of public health to build 20 latrines or face closure. The school with 500 pupils is facing closure next the public health statement indicated that the two pit latrines should not be used due to their poor status.
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