[Dalsan Radio] More than 1600 students who sat for their exams their final secondary school certificates in Puntland will not be given their national examination after the education minister has ruled out the government will not recognize the students who have not sat for the official standardized tests.

[UCT] The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) student entrepreneurs pulled out all the stops during the regional round of the Entrepreneurship Intervarsity competition, topping three of the four categories and heading to the national final later this year.

[Govt of SA] The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, Ms Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba, has expressed her sincere condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of all the officials, educators, leaners and workers in the basic education sector that have passed on since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Observer] The St. Michael Catholic Alumni Association (SMCSAA) says it is saddened by the untimely death of alumna Munah Pelham-Youngblood after a protractive period of illness. The Association said her death is a devastating blow to the Alma Mater and the alumni association.

[Daily Trust] Daily Trust Board of Economists (BoE) has advised the Federal Government to urgently intervene to salvage private schools and struggling small enterprises hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government of Nigeria says it cannot decide for state and private schools on whether or not to participate in the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations.

[Daily Trust] Zaria — COVID-19 has not only posed an indelible mark in virtually all spheres of our lives from health care, education, big and small business enterprises, private sectors etc. for the elitist, middle, lower class workers and the unemployed, but has exposed our lack of preparedness in a continuously dynamic and technologically evolving world. The impact of COVID-19 was not only...

[Monitor] “Success in the 21st Century isn’t about how much you know, but what you can do,” Dr Tony Lusambu Mukasa, the assistant commissioner for Primary Education quipped during a recent Stanbic Bank Education Forum themed: ” What next for Uganda’s Education System?”

[Monitor] The e-learning proposed by government to ensure continuity of learning during the Covid-19 lockdown will fail unless a number of obstacles to digital teaching in the country are addressed, European Union (EU) and Belgium government officials have said.

[Premium Times] The federal government has inaugurated the governing council of 13 federal universities.

[Premium Times] The crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, has taken another dimension as the institution’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has threatened to bar the chairman of the governing council, Wale Babalakin, from gaining entrance into the campus.

[SudaNow] With a very rare language aptitude, photographic memory, a high self-esteem that did not affect his scholarly humility in any way and , further and above, his pride about his national identity as a Sudanese. That was Professor Abdallah Altayeb, whose 17th memory his students, lovers and admirers are commemorating nowadays.

[UCT] Dear colleagues and students

[This Day] The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has called on Nigerians to support the education of the girl-child to ensure even development in the country.

[AIM] Maputo — The Mozambican Minister of Education, Carmelita Namashalua, on Monday guaranteed that her ministry is willing to consult on proposals to revise the school calendar for this year, and on the subjects that should continue to be taught once schools re-open.

[Premium Times] Governor Bello Matawalle has announced a donation of N100 million to the Jamaatu Izalatil Bidah Wa Ikamatussunnah (JBWIS) towards the establishment of an Islamic university in the state.

[This Day] The Ekiti State Government has sealed off a private school, Victory College in Ilawe Ekiti, Ekiti South West Local Government Area of Ekiti State, and ordered the arrest of the proprietor for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols.

[This Day] Abuja and Lagos — The federal government yesterday released new guidelines ahead of the planned resumption of schools without fixing a date for students to resume studies.