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A PRIMARY school in Kamuli district has been receiving capitation grants for 450 ghost pupils since 2005, according to investigators from the education ministry and the Internal Security Organisation. (AllAfrica)

STRIKES have always had their place. For years, some have started condemning the regular feature the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has made strikes. Is there a year that passed without an ASUU strike? (AllAfrica)

PARENTS of pupils who fail to pay school fees and levies could lose household property and other valuables after schools in the capital set debt collectors on them to compel payments. (AllAfrica)

The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia. (AllAfrica)

Government's anti-poverty strategy is based on creating social security, investing in people through education and skills development and establishing a set of economic and industrial policies. (AllAfrica)

My submission is that there is so much corruption in the university system, and no responsible government can continue to throw funds into a drain pipe. As for the issue of salary increment, please forget it. If any increment is granted by government, other professional or rival unions in the public sector will follow suit and make the country ungovernable. (AllAfrica)

TEACHERS threatening to strike over unfulfilled pay promises have been told that civil servants are likely to get proper salaries when Finance Minister Tendai Biti presents the mid-term fiscal policy on July 16. (AllAfrica)

THE 2008 Grade Seven results are finally out, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has announced. (AllAfrica)

Avoid another jamboree in granting amnesty to militants, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has warned the government - and separate genuine agitators from criminals who have tainted the Niger Delta struggle. (AllAfrica)

The national directors of 4th sport zone, met in June from 16-26 in Lilongue (Malawi) expressed the need of increasing upgrading of professionals and the improvement of the communication between the member States, Angop learnt on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

PARLIAMENT has authorised the Government to borrow $150m (over sh300b) from the International Development Bank. (AllAfrica)

THE increasing cases of homosexuality and fire outbreaks in schools have been attributed to drugs and alcohol abuse. (AllAfrica)

Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State recently concluded tours of the 23 Local Government Areas of the state. During the tours, he commissioned some completed projects and held stakeholders' meetings in what was described as an exercise in political accountability by the governor's camp. But on the part of Sambo's political foes, the tours were nothing short of unwarranted hype for his re-election bid. (AllAfrica)

PARENTS, not the Government, are to blame for the declining education standards, the education minister, Namirembe Bitamazire, has said. (AllAfrica)

THE Police on Wednesday deployed at Seroma Christian High School in Nakisunga sub-county, Mukono district to quell a voilent students' strike. (AllAfrica)

THIRTY functional adult literacy instructors in Jinja municipality received a bicycle each to mobilise people to attend literacy programmes. (AllAfrica)

THE Ministry of education will spend $150m (over 300b) to build classrooms, science laboratories, libraries and offices in various schools under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme. (AllAfrica)

The first batch of laptops specifically designed for pupils in the world has arrived in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

A job scandal in which unemployed teachers are paying up to Sh120,000 has been exposed. Teachers in some districts are paying at least Sh80,000 to conmen, according to findings of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), whose officials have unearthed the scandal. (AllAfrica)

The widely criticised decision of the Federal Government to suspend the award of fresh contracts may have been reversed. (AllAfrica)

Almost two months after a potentially crippling teachers strike was averted, teachers once again on Thursday renewed their threat to down tools over low salaries. (AllAfrica)

The department of teacher training and development will not send 72 teachers for training in external institutions even though they were nominated for further training to upgrade their qualifications. (AllAfrica)

WALTER Mzembi, then deputy water resources minister, told the nation last year that the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) was to sink boreholes at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to end a crippling water situation that has delayed the resumption of learning at the institution. (AllAfrica)

Some Masvingo teachers are allegedly demanding buckets of maize and sweet potatoes from students who fail to raise school fees, a practice condemned by parents as a "raw deal" for them. (AllAfrica)

For the two-and-half decades that Kenya has experimented with the 8-4-4 system of education, the programme has been the subject of emotive debate. Unfortunately, the issue has always been lost at the political level. (AllAfrica)

It is reassuring to learn that the two institutions overseeing tertiary institutions in Botswana, the Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) and the Tertiary Education Council (TEC) will soon merge into one institution, with the appointment of a transitional council, the Human Resource Development Advisory Council now imminent. (AllAfrica)

Thirty children, aged between three and 12 years, were left stranded in rented school premises at the Gaborone English Medium Education Centre (GEMEC) after the school officials ran away when Ministry of Education, Skills and Development officials arrived on Friday morning. (AllAfrica)

Although teacher education courses must provide a good grounding in content and methodology, it must also address issues of both values and professional ethics. (AllAfrica)

The country requires more than 60, 000 new teachers to be able to meet the increasing demand for quality education, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has said. (AllAfrica)

The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia. (AllAfrica)

Education curriculum in most African countries lack information on technology and entrepreneurship, thus making it difficulty for them to join the globalised world. (AllAfrica)

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