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The arrest and conviction of seven Quranic teachers who forced boys trusted to their care to beg is a significant move forward for children's rights in Senegal, Human Rights Watch said today. (AllAfrica)

Cape Verde's Government took full ownership of its free meals programme for schoolchildren today after more than three decades of collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), with the United Nations agency voicing hope that it will set an example for other developing countries to follow. (AllAfrica)

A Dakar court has handed down six-month suspended sentences to seven Koranic teachers who forced their pupils to beg, in an unprecedented ruling in the largely Muslim country. The accused were also fined 100,000 francs [150 euros], in what Human Rights Watch said was the first ever application of a 2005 law forbidding the practice. (AllAfrica)

Primary school is a dead end for many children in Somalia, particularly in the southwestern Gedo region where many end up jobless, joining a militia, or emigrating. (AllAfrica)

We have heard enough promises. If what the parties and candidates have already promised is implemented by at least 50 percent, Tanzania will experience tremendous change. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has begun a public awareness campaign about hygiene at primary schools across northern Cameroon in a bid to stem an outbreak of cholera that has killed hundreds of people. (AllAfrica)

A major distribution of school supplies got under way today across Zimbabwe in an effort by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Government and international donors to ensure that every primary school student receives a textbook for all core subjects. (AllAfrica)

The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) Day Care Center, last Friday, celebrated its Golden Jubilee anniversary at the forecourt of the Assembly, amidst the recital of poems and a cultural display among other entertainment from the 'twinkle twinkle little stars'. (AllAfrica)

The minister of Education, Alex Tetteh-Enyo, has indicated that misapplied knowledge among school children is as dangerous as illiteracy. (AllAfrica)

A national forum on Education for All will take place on September 13-14, in the northern Uije Province, in a promotion of the Angolan Evangelic Reformed Church (Iera), ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

At least 77 citizens ended on Tuesday in Katabola District, Central Bié Province, a teachers training programme, held by Norway's Human People to People non-governmental organisation, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

The Government is commended for the conception of the establishment of two new universities in both the Brong Ahafo Region - University of Energy and Natural Resources - and Volta Region - University of Health and Allied Sciences. Their implementation would complete the distribution of public universities in all the ten administrative regions of Ghana. (AllAfrica)

The Education Officer for Erongo Region, Ben Katowa, is concerned about the high failure rate of Grade 10 pupils. (AllAfrica)

Mbarara High School has won the western Uganda regional schools debate tournament after beating hosts, Bweranyangi Girls School. In a final held on Sunday in Bushenyi, all the five judges ruled in Mbarara High School's favour -in a motion where the school defended the argument that the voting age be lowered to 15 years. (AllAfrica)

The road was rough. We were all covered in dust after about 30 minutes of the trip from Mkuranga Town to neighbouring Msorwa village last weekend. (AllAfrica)

The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department will distribute more study guides in a bid to assist matric learners prepare for their final exams, following the disruptions caused by the public servants' strike. (AllAfrica)

Since the 2008 earthquake that destroyed infrastructure at Groupe Scolaire St. Bonaventure, in Nyabitekere Sector, Nyamasheke District, the school has never had its structures renovated. (AllAfrica)

AS the world celebrates the International Literacy Day that falls today, September 8, Rwanda has intensified its steps to ensure that more people learn how to read and write. (AllAfrica)

The ultra modern medical centre which General Theophilus Danjuma built and donated to Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), is undergoing restructuring in what the university authorities say, "is to suit the taste of the donor." (AllAfrica)

The chancellor of the public Mandume Ya Ndemufayo University, Viriato Gonçalves, expressed on Tuesday his satisfaction at the levels of organisation of the Higher Polytechnic School in Ondjiva City, in the southern Cunene Province. (AllAfrica)

The HIV prevalence rate is low among university students, a report has revealed. According to the report by the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), out of every 100 students, only 1.15% are HIV-positive, compared to the national prevalence rate of 6.4%. (AllAfrica)

Forum for African Women Educationalist Uganda Chapter (FAWEU) has urged the Government to support arts students at University so as to cater for FAWEU beneficiaries. (AllAfrica)

BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the nine education MECs are to decide today whether to scrap this month's school holidays to make up time lost to the 20-day public sector strike, which was suspended on Monday evening, basic education department spokesman Granville Whittle said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

The Students Union President of the University of Jos Comrade Hitler Pwajok was arrested yesterday as two students were injured when they clashed with mobile policemen in front of the Vice Chancellor's office following a protest over the development levy recently introduced in the university. (AllAfrica)

Sixty years after its establishment, Boys Secondary School (BSS), Gindiri, in the Central Senatorial District of Plateau State has produced great personalities that have affected lives, positively, all over the world. To celebrate the milestone and the old students, the Gindiri Old Students Association (GOSA), recently organised a special Awards Dinner and Distinguished Lecture at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja. (AllAfrica)

Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, has formally commissioned the equipment and facilities it donated to the Geology Department, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, under its Universities Partnering Programme (UPP). (AllAfrica)

A case has been made for the redesign the 'Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teacher education programme in Nigeria to include pedagogical content knowledge and entrepreneurial skills acquisition. (AllAfrica)

A total of 130 graduates in various specialties are annually attending post-graduation master programmes in Brazilian universities, under a cooperation agreement between educational institutions from both countries. (AllAfrica)

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has extended its arm to students who want to further their studies but do not have the financial means to do so. (AllAfrica)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday called for an education summit to thrash out issues that are militating against the educational development of the country even as it handed down to the political class an agenda they must include in their manifestos if they want to get the votes of the intelligentsia. (AllAfrica)

After 21 days of strike, hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers have returned to work. (AllAfrica)

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