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Ghana: Koforidua Central Hospital Organises Training Workshop

The management of the Koforidua Hospital, in collaboration with the Nurses and Midwifery Association (NMA), has organised a five-day training workshop for its staff. (AllAfrica)


Uganda: Head Teacher Interdicted Over Stripping Pupils

Luweero District authorities have interdicted the head teacher of Nakigoza Primary School, Mr Fred Balabye, for allegedly stripping five female pupils in the guise of checking them for stolen items and financial mismanagement. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: VC Makes Case for African Varsities' Collaboration

The Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has canvassed for the collaboration of African Universities, Research institutes as well as the industries for better development of the continent. (AllAfrica)


Namibia: 'Clever Cubs' Get Own School

THE Clever Cubs School is a brand new school for 24 San children that opened this month on the N/a' an ku se Wildlife Sanctuary outside Windhoek. (AllAfrica)


Namibia: Fredericks Foundation Gives Back

THE Frank Fredericks Foundation (FFF) once again announced several scholarships worth thousands of dollars and brand-new sports equipment to athletes and schools in Namibia. (AllAfrica)


Gambia: Biodiversity Training Opens at Abuko Nature Reserve

A five-day training on biodiversity conservation and management for forestry officers, last Thursday, November 19th commenced at the Darwin Field Station, located right in the heart of the Abuko Nature Reserve. (AllAfrica)


Ghana: Ilgs Microsoft It Academy Ready for Take Off

Eight trainees have successfully passed out of the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS) Microsoft IT Academy with certificates in Digital Literacy after undergoing a five-day programme from November 9-13. (AllAfrica)


Uganda: UTL Donates to Gulu School for Blind

Uganda Telecom last week donated food and scholastic materials to Gulu Primary School for the Blind worth Shs 8 million. (AllAfrica)


Uganda: Tuition Loans Good for Education

Kampala International University (KIU) recently marked out a new path by launching Uganda's first ever university tuition fee loan scheme. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: FG Flags Off Distribution of N4.2 Billion Worth of Books

Basic education has received a major boost in Nigeria as textbooks worth over N4.2 billion has been made available for distribution for primary four pupils and junior secondary schools across the states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. (AllAfrica)


Namibia: 10 Polytechic Students To Attend Cultural Echange Programme Next Year

Opperman Aids Orphan Trust's 8th fundraising gala dinner was held earlier this week at the Safari Court Conference Centre with the theme "Our beautiful children, our beautiful country". (AllAfrica)


Namibia: Leo Sponsors Poly Students to the United States

Mobile phone company, Leo is sponsoring students from the Polytechnic of Namibia to attend a cultural exchange programme at Harvard College in Boston, Massachusetts. (AllAfrica)


Gambia: Jambanjelly Nursery School Boosted

Jambanjelly Nursery School on Tuesday, received an assortment of learning materials such as furniture, chalks, books, DVDs, toys, clothes and shoes from a charitable organisation called VZW De Gambiavrienden from Belgium, at a presntation ceremony held at the school ground, in Kombo South. (AllAfrica)


Gambia: GPU Trains Journalists On Secure Online Communication

A four-day training for 15 journalists; including editors and reporters drawn from different media institutions in the country will end today at the Gambia Press UnionÂ's head office in Bakau. (AllAfrica)


Gambia: Methodist School Receive Assistance

George Town Trust recently assisted Methodist Lower Basic School in Janjanbureh,Central River Region (CRR) with funitures and building materials worth forty-two thousand dalasi (42,000) the materials was meant for refurbishment. (AllAfrica)


Uganda: 37 Varsity Students Get Scholarships

THE French embassy has awarded scholarships to 37 students of Makerere and Kyambogo universities who are studying French. The beneficiaries comprise 16 second-year students and 21 students in the first year. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: FG Distributes N4.287 Billion Books to Schools

First Lady, Hajiya Turai Umaru Yar'Adua, yesterday flagged off the national distribution of more than eight million English Language and Mathematics textbooks, science-based activity books to primary four pupils and assorted library books for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), worth N4.287 billion. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Issues in University Education

There are indeed myriad issues facing university education in Nigeria. Since the return of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, efforts and measures have been made and put in place to reduce high level of illiteracy and to enhance the standard of education in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)


Uganda: 3,000 Child Labourers in Mbale District

MBALE district leaders expressed shock and concern after the head of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in Uganda revealed that the district had 3,300 child labourers. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Experts Decry Low Girl Education in Nation

A panel of discussants from Nigeria on education and family planning has expressed worries over the gender gap in the ratio of girls to boys in schools especially in the Northern part of the country. (AllAfrica)


Zimbabwe: President Meets SA Varsity Team

PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met KwaZulu Natal University Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Dasarath Chetty to finalise an agreement that will see more Zimbabwean students being enrolled at the institution annually under the Presidential Scholarship Programme. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Ex-CBN Gov Makes Case for Education

Governments at all levels have been called upon to make more resources available for the maintenance and development of education in the country. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Mohammed Identifies Causes of Decline in Legal Education

Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr Tahir Mohammed, yesterday attributed the decline in legal education in Nigeria to the progressive decline in university education, reduction in the number of lecturers and the technicality of legal education fostered on the country by early generation of law teachers. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Unad Hikes School Fees by 400 Percent

Authorities of the University of Ado Ekiti (UNAD) has announced a 400 percent hike in school fees for the new students, which the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Dipo Kolawole said the increment is the only option left for the university to survive. (AllAfrica)


Kenya: We Must Curb Teenage Pregnancy

The news on national examinations in the past month has been punctuated by stories of teenage girls who either sat for their papers while pregnant, gave birth right before the tests started, or had to take them in hospital. One candidate died during delivery. (AllAfrica)


South Africa: New Maths Curriculum Does Not Add Up

THE new school mathematics curriculum does not give pupils a grounding good enough for post-matric study in mathematics-dominant university courses such as engineering and pure mathematics, experts say. (AllAfrica)


Mozambique: Quality of Education is Main Challenge

Mozambican Education Minister Aires Aly said in Maputo on Wednesday that though there are still problems of access of children to school, the main challenge to the country, at national level, is about the quality of education. (AllAfrica)


Tanzania: Needed - Learner Centred Syllabuses

ANITHA Kihiyo, a primary school teacher at Kigurunyembe in Morogoro Region, says national curriculum set by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training for its primary and secondary schools, do not create or construct knowledge for the students. (AllAfrica)


Botswana: TCE Students On Hunger Strike Over 'Bad' Bread

Hundreds of Tonota College of Education (TCE) students launched a hunger strike on Tuesday decrying the quality of bread supplied by a local bakery. (AllAfrica)


Botswana: Poor Records Deny MOE Millions

A senior Ministry of Education (MoE) official has said they have failed to recover loans from students because they have not kept proper records. (AllAfrica)


Zimbabwe: Presidential Scholarship to Benefit 200 Students

Two hundred students will benefit from the Presidential Scholarship Programme and will undertake various degree programmes at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa starting next year. (AllAfrica)


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