FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026, 09:03
[SAnews.gov.za] The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has completed several settlement agreements with service providers and individuals linked to the R431 million in decontamination, disinfection, and sanitisation of school contracts awarded by the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[ANGOP] Sumbe — A figure of 61,243 students from 37 primary schools in the municipality of Sumbe, province of Cuanza-Sul, began to benefit from the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) on Wednesday.
The NCA and NPCC say children should be blocked from accessing sites which do not stop them seeing nudes or being contacted by strangers.
How can Cubans move forward if they aren’t ready to reckon with their past?
Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube
Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its social networks are designed to be addictive, leading to harm in children. The settlement comes less than three weeks before the case was scheduled to go to trial in federal...
[Nile Post] Makerere University has intensified efforts to strengthen security across its campuses, with more than 80 security guards completing a specialized refresher training programme aimed at improving crime prevention, emergency response, and protection of university property.
[Nile Post] The government of Egypt has reaffirmed its commitment to offering scholarship opportunities to Ugandan students as part of efforts to strengthen the long-standing bilateral cooperation between the two countries, particularly in the education sector.
[Nile Post] A delegation from the National Defence College – Uganda (NDC-U) Intake 4/2025-2026 has undertaken an academic and strategic study visit to Algeria, highlighting growing defence diplomacy and military cooperation between the two African nations.
The students held leadership positions in Republican groups. The racist rhetoric, documented in court papers, highlights a growing rift in the party.
[Shabait] – The Tamfeda Award has been provided to 63 outstanding students, including 18 female students, who scored high marks in the 2024/2025 eighth-grade national examination in Molqui sub-zone, Gash Barka Region.
[New Dawn] In Liberia, our elders tell “the child who loves school does not fear the rain.” Education has always been one of the few ladders ordinary Liberians believe can lift families from struggle to hope. In many homes, education is not simply important; it is the dream parents hold onto when everything else feels uncertain.
[Liberian Observer] Liberia has taken a major step toward modernizing its national school feeding programme with the rollout of a digital monitoring system designed to enhance accountability, improve nutrition oversight, and strengthen education outcomes across the country.
[Liberian Observer] – Alexander B. Cummings, political leader of the Alternative National Congress, met with Liberian students and community members in Kigali, Rwanda last week on the sidelines of the African CEO Forum, reaffirming his commitment to transforming Liberia’s governance and outlining a sharper political strategy ahead of the 2029 presidential elections.
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space
The play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Macci Dobie, the school’s...
[Vanguard] The Sokoto Zonal Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), comprising 10 universities across the North-West, has raised serious concerns over what it described as the slow, distorted and selective implementation of the 2025 Federal Government ASUU Agreement, warning that continued neglect of lecturers’ welfare and university governance issues could trigger avoidable...
[Nyasa Times] Old Mutual Malawi has intensified its nationwide financial literacy campaign by engaging members of the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and several civilian institutions in a series of financial education workshops aimed at equipping people with practical money management skills during the country’s difficult economic period.
[Premium Times] JAMB advised candidates whose results were not yet released to check their status.
[This Day] The recent kidnapping of students and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State has once again exposed the frightening state of insecurity confronting Nigeria. Condemnations have continued to trail last Friday’s bandits’ attack on three schools in the area, where an unspecified number of students and teachers were abducted, while two persons were reportedly killed. The...
[This Day] Ado Ekiti — As part of efforts to ensure the seamless commencement of academic activities at its proposed Law College, Venite University has intensified engagements with key stakeholders in Nigeria’s legal education sector through a strategic visit to the Nigerian Law School.
[This Day] Cambridge University Press and Assessment, and Alsama Project, have signed an agreement to develop and expand a new qualification aimed at helping refugees and displaced youths gain access to universities, vocational training and employment in Nigeria and across the world.
[New Dawn] Monrovia — The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has rated Liberia among the worst-performing education systems globally.