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Petauke — GOVERNMENT has said it plans to completely scrap all fees in schools but is currently constrained by the huge amounts of money being spent on the purchase of maize through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA). Vice-President Guy Scott said this when he paid a courtesy call on Chief Nyamphande of the Nsenga-speaking people at his palace in Petauke
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend decried the poor African and international ranking of Nigerian universities, saying older universities, particularly the University of Nigeria, must endeavour to change the situation. Jonathan stated that the recent ratings which indicated that “no Nigerian university is among the top 10 providers of tertiary institutions in Africa, not to mention globally” was unacceptable. He declared that
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Harare - Public schools in Zimbabwe's capital were deserted on Tuesday, the second day of a strike by civil servants demanding a doubling of basic wages and better work conditions. An AFP correspondent visiting government schools around Harare found only a few staffers and some senior pupils milling around, as more teachers heeded a call by the main state workers
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The Minister of Education, Mrs Betty Mould –Iddrisu, on Sunday said the Government considered early childhood education a priority as a long term solution to Ghana’ s economic and social problems. She said government through the Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies demonstrated its commitment to the wellbeing of the Ghanaian child and ratification of various global policy framework such as
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Libya's 1.2 million schoolchildren returned to classrooms nationwide on Saturday, to learn a revamped curriculum that includes the revolution that ousted Moamer Kadhafi and purges his personal teachings. The country's old textbooks have been revised to eliminate chapters that "glorified" Kadhafi with new material added on the nine-month conflict that led to his downfall and death, Education Minister Suleyman Ali
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Reports about a looming crisis in public schools over the provision of textbooks is worrying. But they underscore a much deeper problem afflicting schools, and for that matter, the entire education system. Public schools depend on State funding to procure exercise and textbooks, as well as other teaching and learning materials. Under an agreement reached in 2003 when the free
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ONE of the unheralded events in the improvement of higher education in the country in year 2011 was the quiet gesture from Dr Mike Adenuga Jr. to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Enugu State. He gave the frontline institution the princely sum of N150 million. The gift, according to his representative, was a gesture of goodwill "to this great
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Tamale– A Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Mahama Ayariga, has noted that a dysfunctional educational system is the greatest threat to any nation's security. Mr Ayariga stressed that a dysfunctional public education system that produce unskilled and functionally illiterate youth and adults unsuitable for employment is the greatest threat to national security and not small arms proliferation or ethnic conflicts.
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Maputo — The Japanese government on Monday formalised grants of about 280,000 US dollars to finance education and water projects in Mozambique, which will be undertaken by NGOs. The two education projects involve building classrooms in the Lili Primary School in Nacala district, in the northern province of Nampula, and in the Estrela do Mar Industrial and Commercial School, in
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Sierra Leone - A city in Sierra Leone is offering a five-year scholarship to girls who keep their virginity until they complete university. The aim is to cut teenage pregnancies by ensuring "that at least 80% of school going girls keep their virginity until they finish their educational life", said Mathew Margao, council chairman in southern city of Bo. "The
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Akure — PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend blamed the poor international rating of Nigerian universities on lack of proper attention to research by the authorities of the institutions. This came as former head of interim government, Chief Ernest Shonekan and the Ondo State governor Dr Olusegun Mimiko were awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the University President Jonathan who spoke at the
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THE Presidential Scholarship Scheme for poor undergraduates studying at South African universities has fallen prey to ghost students. This is at a time when the programme is struggling to get funding for the upkeep of the current stock of students studying south of the Limpopo River. Tendai Biti, the Minister of Finance, has been fighting to have the Presidential Scholarship
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The strike by lecturers in public universities enters its sixth day Monday with a possibility of more institutions shutting down. At the weekend, students at Chepkoilel University College in Eldoret were sent home indefinitely. The constituent college of Moi University followed Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kakamega and Egerton University in Nakuru in shutting down after lecturers
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Harare — Poverty, abuse and cultural practices are preventing a third of Zimbabwean girls from attending primary school and 67 percent from attending secondary school, denying them a basic education, according to a recent study which found alarming dropout rates for girls. "Sexual harassment and abuse by even school teachers and parents, cultural issues, lack of school fees, early marriage,
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Kotido — "We need a generation that looks at things differently and we will only get that if they go to school," says James Bisheko, who spent two years in Karamoja as a project manager with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. Many development workers in the historically marginalized northeastern region of Uganda would agree, but persuading children to stay
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President Goodluck Jonathan has said the Federal Govern-ment would establish more universities in more states as a far-reaching measure to bring tertiary education closer to the people. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Jonathan said this on Saturday, in Abakaliki, at a grand reception in honour of nine Federal Government appointees from Ebonyi State. Jonathan was represented on
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Hundreds of Swazi students gathered outside state offices in the capital, Mbabane, on Thursday to demand the cash-strapped government pay their three-month overdue meal allowances. "They have not told us why they have not paid. They told us they would," Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, president of the Swaziland National Union of Students, told AFP. Armed police locked the crowd of around 300
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It is easy for casual observers to assume from the return of about 40 schools to their original missionary owners by the Delta state government that this is a precedent to be desperately followed and speedily replicated by other states. We make bold to say that it is not. In the case under reference the state government simply handed the
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SOME traditional practices and economic hardships have forced many rural girls to drop out of school, Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Olivia Muchena has said. The minister said this at the launch of Plan Zimbabwe report on vulnerable children titled "Because I am a Girl" recently in Harare. "Education is the most important gift in a girl's life
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Abeokuta — Four students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Ogun State have drowned in a river at Aro, beside the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta. The students, who were members of the Apostolic Church Students Fellowship were said to have been having a seven day prayer and fasting retreat when the incident occurred. A member of the church who craves
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Foroyaa has been receiving information that people are going about in neighborhoods asking for their voters' cards in order to take them to fill forms. They do not know what the forms are meant for and why they should be compelled to give their voters' cards. The fact that a Gambian citizen of full age and maturity is still unable
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Abidjan — Soon after Ouattara's ascension to power in the Ivory Coast, university buildings were vacated so that renovation work could commence. In the meantime, students have found a new life for themselves far from the university; a life that could divert them from their initial ambitions. Theatre of violent conflicts Just a few months ago, during the 'battle of
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Exams have been disrupted at Kololo high school after a tear gas canister is lobbed into the school compound just hours after the start of the first examination for this years “O” Levels. Daily Monitor reporter Patience Ahimbisibwe on the scene says chaotic scenes engulfed the school as students other than the candidates stormed out of their classes demanding that
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THE steam and the flame of the torch of development lit in Akwa Ibom State by the Governor Godswill Akpabio administration's free, compulsory and qualitative education policy for primary and secondary schools will never dim. It remains fascinatingly aglow. Like in a relay race, the baton of functional education for indigenes of the state has been handed to the Akwa
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Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has delivered on his pledge of US$300,000 (about Rw180m) towards construction works at a school in Kicukiro District. Museveni made the pledge while on a state visit to Rwanda, in July, this year, during a community exercise (Umuganda) to construct classrooms at Nyarugunga Primary School in Kanombe Sector. Earlier on the same day, the Ugandan
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