SATURDAY, 23 MARCH 2019, 03:09
King’s College London to review security procedures as students explore legal action
King’s College London is to order an independent review of its security procedures after a group of students said they were singled out as troublemakers and barred from campus during a visit by the Queen.
The 10 undergraduates say they are exploring legal action against KCL after their security passes were...
Footage had emerged of staff using “inappropriate restraint techniques” at Clydeview School in Motherwell.
[Malawi News Agency] Kasungu -Nine girls at Kadifula Community Day Secondary (CDSS) in Kasungu District dropped out of school last academic year either due to pregnancy or for marriage.
Schools are broke, but without teaching assistants, children’s education will suffer. We must lobby the government
Next month I could lose my job. My 11 years as a teaching assistant is coming to an end due to government cuts in education.
Across the London of borough of Hackney, where I work, 66 schools have had government cuts to per-pupil funding since 2015. Headteachers have been left with...
[Malawi News Agency] Nsanje -Lessons came to a standstill at Dinde Primary school in Nsanje on Wednesday after over 20 learners mysteriously lost consciousness.
[Africa Check] On 5 March 2019 the West African Examinations Council (Waec) released results of the year’s school certificate exam for private candidates. Three days later an online report claimed the council had declared Biafra the “most brilliant region in Nigeria”.
[Nyasa Times] After Lunzu Secondary School in Blantyre prematurely closed after some students are said to have been attacked by a strange illness elsewhere in Nsanje, lessons came to a standstill at Dinde Primary school on Wednesday after over 20 learners mysteriously lost consciousness.
Parents who have protested outside the Birmingham school say the lessons are “toxic” and “disgusting”.
[COSATU] SADTU Limpopo Province has noted with great concern the persistent allegation of corruption levelled against the MEC of Education, Kgetjepe Ishmael as reported in the City Press newspaper.
[Observer] A courageous young lady, Success Sulonkoko, clinched the top prize of L$10,000 from Messengers of Peace (MOP) first edition of the 2019 peace essay competition last Tuesday at the St. Simon Baptist School on Capitol By-pass.
[News24Wire] Activities at all Tshwane University of Technology campuses are expected to resume on Monday, after it was shut down two weeks ago.
[Nyasa Times] Lunzu Secondary School in Blantyre will this Sunday hold inter-domination prayer after some students are said to have been attacked by a strange illness.
[Daily Trust] The Federal Government allocations to the education sector have stalled below 11 percent, falling short of the 15 to 20 percent Incheon Declaration benchmark.
[Guardian] Before his installation last Friday as the chief Imam, University of Lagos (UNILAG) Muslim Community (UMC), four personalities/scholars had occupied the seat. They were Professors Nurudeen Alao, Abdulfattah Mabadeje, Tajudeen Gbadamosi and Murtala Aderemi Bidmos. But none was installed with a big feast as it happened for Dr. Ismail Akin Musa last Friday at the University Central...
[Guardian] There has been for some time in this country, a contrived but absolutely needless Arts versus Science controversy, including a distracting comparison of their respective value to society. It has become fashionable in recent times that policy makers extol Science and Technology over Liberal Arts.
[Observer] The leadership of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) Network of Liberia said it will visit stakeholders in each of the 15 counties, starting from April 26, 2019 to discuss and review matters concerning the improvement of the country’s educational sector.
[Observer] The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce the selected applicants for the 2019 cohort of the Foundation’s flagship Entrepreneurship Program on March 22, 2019.
The curator, who has died aged 55, was the only person to curate both the Venice Biennale and Documenta, helped redefine what African art could be and provided a platform for the likes of Steve McQueen
Okwui Enwezor, who has died aged 55, was a peerless, charismatic Nigerian curator who helped place non-western art histories on an equal footing with the long-established narrative of European...
[Dalsan Radio] The European Union jointly with the Government of the Puntland State of Somalia launched the third phase of the Puntland Education Sector Support Programme worth 7.3 million Euro.
[Nation] Countries where comprehensive sex education (CSE) is taught have the lowest teen pregnancy rates.
[GroundUp] At least 40 children of refugees are struggling to get into Cape Town schools, say refugee rights organisations PASSOP and Voice of Africans for Change (VAC).