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The news that the National University of Rwanda is securing premises in Kigali to relocate the School of Journalism and Communication could not have come at a better time, with the newly promulgated media law in force. (AllAfrica)

The Education Ministry has announced it does not have the extra money to pay special incentives to exam invigilators, as the 2009 exam period is set to get underway a month late, on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

The nation has been warned against scrapping of post-UME test which a segment of the society including Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are pressing for, as it will bring us back to the dark days of poor quality entrants into university system. (AllAfrica)

The School of Education under the Gambia College, recently held a dayÂ's capacity building training for its lecturers, at the College campus in Brikama. (AllAfrica)

Newly elevated Arusha Technical College (ATC) has stepped up its training programmes to meet the demand for technicians. (AllAfrica)

The world's most prestigious film academy, the New York Film Academy, is to open its institute in Nigeria in February, 2010, as part of the its drive to train Nollywood actors and actresses for optimal competition in the international arena. (AllAfrica)

EXECUTIVE Secretary, Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Professor Godswill Obioma has disclosed that the ultra-modern virtual library project embarked upon by his agency has been stalled due to lack of funds to complete the project. (AllAfrica)

AS the teaching and learning of Mathematics continues to raise serious concern to stakeholders in Nigeria's,, Mclilyville Consulting firm limited in collaboration with Lagos State Ministry of Education has began to offer free Mathematics clinic to students in State Senior Secondary Schools. This initiative is being carried out across the six educational districts of the State as part of efforts to improve teaching and learning of Mathematics in public schools. (AllAfrica)

Following the resolve of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to keep all the staff and students abreast of current global educational trends and developments, there have been a spate of seminars and workshops in the institution's Study Centres across the country. (AllAfrica)

Problem of food security, aviation safety, border security, emergency intervention among others will soon be a thing of the past as Nigeria plans for more efficient Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) through training of expertise for the Universities. (AllAfrica)

WORRIED by the low rating of Nigerian universities in the global arena, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on Tuesday tasked the various Universities in the country to rise up to the challenge by enhancing their products in the areas of academic and research development. (AllAfrica)

FEDERAL Government has lamented the abysmal performance of students of Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) in the 2009 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), stating that the situation is unacceptable given that the schools ought to be role models to others. (AllAfrica)

Federal Government is determined to reposition the education sector to ensure that it plays the pivotal role of human capital development needed for the attainment of socio-economic and political growth in the country, Minister of State for Education Hajiya Aishatu Jibril Dukku has said. (AllAfrica)

Perturbed by the current poor reading culture in the country, Chairman of Literamed Publications Nigeria Limited Otunba Yinka Lawal Solarin said absence of a developed reading culture is one of the most visible obstacles to national development. (AllAfrica)

The new curriculum for technical colleges will focus on the changing trends of technology. "The quality of the technology, the maintenance and repairs of the different systems are very important for a sustainable and prosperous society," said Dirk Sijbesma, a curriculum specialist from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. (AllAfrica)

THE parliamentary committee on social services wants parents who keep children of school-going age from attending classes arrested and prosecuted. (AllAfrica)

Buyaga county MP Barnabas Tinkasiimire has appealed to the executive board of the Islamic University (IUIU) over his expulsion over examination malpractices. (AllAfrica)

The Director for East and Central Africa in the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Joy Hutcheon, is in the country for a two-day visit. (AllAfrica)

Cyprus Institute of Marketing (CIM) is set to establish its learning centre in Rwanda, according Yango Hadjyannis, the Institute's Deputy Director. (AllAfrica)

Businessman and farmer Mr Temba Mliswa has donated 20 heifers and a bull to the Chinhoyi University of Technology for the institution to start a breeding programme at a farm allocated to it by the Government under the land reform programme. (AllAfrica)

Ordinary Level examinations begin today amid reports that school administrators are making frantic efforts to convince teachers to invigilate without compensation after the school term closes on December 4. (AllAfrica)

Before the nation's tertiary institutions can be transformed into modernity, their bursars and directors of finance must not only be innovative but they must ensure probity, transparency, accountability and must be ready to follow due process in all financial transactions and procedure. (AllAfrica)

Records of most schools in Nigeria, either public or private, are kept manually, in paper form. With the passage of time, vital records and information are lost as the papers get defaced. This problem, coupled with the difficulty of wading through a mountain of paperwork often result in wrong performance analysis, inaccurate planning, and inefficient management of the schools. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNMENT has no money to pay teachers invigilating this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations and is urging the educators to make sacrifices for their students, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds. (AllAfrica)

Some Schools of Nursing in Imo State have been denied accreditation by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). (AllAfrica)

A Member of Parliament has been expelled from a university over examination malpractice. (AllAfrica)

Hardly a day goes by in Uganda without a case of defilement making the rounds in newspapers and media outlets. (AllAfrica)

The inspector-general of higher education, Madeira Pereira, Monday in Luanda called on university students for greater engagement in researching activities, for a better quality of teaching and learning. (AllAfrica)

The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, Cândida Teixeira, advised Sunday in Luanda, Angolan young women to engage in training, especially in courses of social sciences, for the country's continuous growth. (AllAfrica)

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