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Kenya: Teachers With Aids Grapple With Stigma in Classrooms
The stigma attached to Aids is affecting the performance of teachers infected with HIV. (AllAfrica)
Southern Africa: Women Hopeful About Gender Parity
Mainstreaming women in positions of responsibility is not about affirmative action and reverse discrimination, University of Botswana (UB) lecturer Elsie Alexander has said. (AllAfrica)
Liberia: Nigeria-Trained Police Return
Security preparations for next month's national elections received a boast with the return to Monrovia over the weekend of 300 members of the Liberian National Police after a one-month specialized training in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: Bank Spends Sh20m On Girls' Learning
Barclays Bank of Kenya has spent Sh20 million since last year to support schoolgirls in its community investment programme. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: 48,000 Students to Miss Varsity As Points Raised
It is bad news for over 48,000 candidates who sat the 2004 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education and got grade C+. (AllAfrica)
Kenya: I Will Push Ministry to Revive Abandoned School, Says VP
Vice-President Moody Awori has asked the Ministry of Education to rehabilitate Garbatulla High School. (AllAfrica)
Cameroon: Unesco Trains Journalists On Making News From Educational Issues
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, September 15, began a four-day course to train African journalists on education as a vital news item, the issues it raises and the stories it contains. (AllAfrica)
Cameroon: UB VC Tasks Collaborators With Hard Work, Creativity
The Vice-Chancellor, VC, of the University of Buea, UB, Prof. Cornelius Mbifung Lambi, has told the newly appointed staff of the institution that they would need hard work, initiative and creativity to enable them go through their respective assignments and to keep UB going. (AllAfrica)
Liberia: Ellen Reveals Platform-Assures Free Education, Zero Tolerance Corruption
With barely three weeks to the holding of the most anticipated Legislative and presidential elections, the Standard Bearer of the Unity Party (UP), Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has revealed her platform for the development of the nation. (AllAfrica)
Cameroon: Crisis in GBHS Kumba: PTA Drags Delegate to Court
The Parent Teachers Association, PTA, of Government Bilingual High School, GBHS, Kumba, has dragged the new Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education for Meme, Stephen Sube Keme, to the Meme High Court for canceling a July 23 PTA election.The election resulted in the victory of Chief Nawa Ngoh as PTA President. (AllAfrica)
Cameroon: Students Say Njeuma is Danger to Varsity Democracy
Ahead of the official installation Monday, September 19, of Dr. Dorothy Njeuma, as Rector of the University of Yaounde I, the Cameroon Students' Rights Association, known by its French acronym as ADDEC, has declared that Njeuma's presence is a danger to university democracy and liberties. (AllAfrica)