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  • Poor End of Year Results for Cameroon Students

    CAMEROON, 2017/08/26 Authorities blame this year's nose-dive on the socio-political climate in the English-speaking part of the country that saw a shutdown of schools, grounding two of the three yearly terms of studies. The Advanced Level scored 35.32 per-cent pass while Ordinary level made 25.29 percentages passed.

  • Ugandan Govt Starts Verifying International Academy Teachers

    UGANDA, 2017/08/26 Next nearly a year of bickering with the government of Uganda, the American-founded Bridge International Academies appears to have reached a settlement with the government. Last year saw suits and countersuits as both sides accused each other of over-reach. The Education ministry is in the process of vetting teachers in the Bridge International Academies (BIA) before deciding whether to license the schools.

  • Africa's Richest Man Sets Sights on Launching Nigeria University

    NIGERIA, 2017/08/26 The President and Founder of Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, has set aside N200 billion to establish a world-class university in Abuja. Former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Julius Okojie, who is the chairman of the technical team for the establishment of the university, said the foundation intended to drive technology and research in stimulating economic increase. Okojie, who led his team to the current Executive Secretary of the commission, Abubakar Rasheed, said the proposed university was meant to be technology-driven and asked for the cooperation and support of the NUC towards the realisation of the goal.

  • Nigeria's Academic Union Set for Nationwide Indefinite Strike

    NIGERIA, 2017/08/18 The federal government, in a departure from the norm, wednesday admitted that its failure to fulfil its side of the bargain with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resulted in the strike action embarked upon by the lecturers of tertiary institutions on Sunday. Briefing newsmen in the National Home, next the Federal Executive Council (FEC) conference, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu said it was saddening that ASUU went on strike owing to the failure of the federal government to fulfil its side of the bargain with the union last year. Adamu, however, said the federal government was not happy over the way ASUU proceeded on strike, observing that it failed to follow due process by giving the government reasonable notice as the case should be.

  • Public university lecturers begin strike in Kenya

    KENYA, 2017/07/29 Lecturers at government universities in Kenya have gone on strike in turmoil at the way in which a pay rise agreement signed in March was being implemented. They say the government had agreed to release 10 billion shillings before the end of June under the agreement but so far had only released 4.7 billion shillings.

  • International cooperation pushes Malaysia towards higher education goals

    MALAYSIA, 2017/07/15 Malaysia is strengthening its position as a destination for international students, having recently inked bilateral deals related to tertiary-level education with partners in Turkey and Senegal. The majority recent of these moves took place in May, at the same time as Malaysia’s Al Bukhary International University and Turkey’s Ibn Haldun University signed an agreement to work on a collaborative education programme.

  • UN Chief Underscores Need To Invest In Africa’s Youth

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/09 The Group of Seven (G7) leaders has in its ‘Taormina Communiqué‘ underscored that “Africa’s security, stability and sustainable development are high priorities”. But it has from presently on to respond to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ specific call for the need to invest in young people, with stronger investment in technology and relevant education and capacity building in Africa. The two-day G7 summit in Italy, in which the leaders of six other industrial nations – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the U.S. as well took part, concluded on May 27 in Taormina, a hilltop town on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. Speaking at a session on reinforcing the partnership between the G7 and Africa, the UN Secretary-General noted on the concluding day that the international community has a role in helping the continent adapt as it heads for a new wave of industrialization.

  • Child marriage will cost the world $4tn by 2030

    WORLD, 2017/07/02 Ending child marriage could add additional than $4tn to the world economy, curb people increase and transform the lives of millions of young women worldwide, claim researchers. A study by the World Bank and the International Center for Research on Women, the initial to quantify the financial cost of the practice, suggests that eradicating child marriage would save governments money while enabling girls to complete their education and get better jobs.

  • Jordan moves to modernise education sector

    JORDAN, 2017/07/01 Efforts to increase Jordan’s digital literacy rates against a backdrop of changing demographics and skills gaps in the labour market are beginning to yield results. In early May, the Queen Rania Foundation announced plans to join forces with Google.org, a non-profit subsidiary of the world’s major search engine, to create an online learning platform targeting the kingdom’s pre-university-level students. As part of the collaboration, Google.org will grant the foundation $3m. Designed as an open education resource to improve access to education for pupils unfamiliar with English, the programme will be delivered in Arabic. While a timeframe for the project’s implementation has from presently on to be made public, the foundation confirmed that the initial phase will focus on creating mathematics courses for students in pre-tertiary education.

  • 巴米扬省师资力量严重不足

    亚洲, 2017/06/16 由于常年战乱，加上教师不足、学校缺乏等原因，巴米扬省文盲率非常高，且女性文盲率远高于男性。该省教育部门负责人称，目前该省共有338所学校、3333名教师和13.6万名学生，另外需要2380名教师。 阿教育部称，目前阿文盲率达到60%以上，其中18岁以上的约有1100万人。
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