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Boris Johnson to announce donation at G7 and urge fellow leaders to spend more of their aid budget on schooling
Britain will contribute £90m to a global fund that provides schooling for children in conflict zones, Boris Johnson will announce at the G7 summit on Sunday.
Education Cannot Wait is a global fund established in 2016: it is based at Unicef and overseen by a steering group chaired by
Russell Group members admit they treat less-rigorous IGCSEs the same as new, harder GCSEs
Top universities are giving privately educated children an unfair advantage by not differentiating between the rigorous GCSEs compulsory in the state system and less demanding exams taken in many fee-paying schools, MPs and educationists said last night.
Just days after GCSE results day last Thursday,...
[New Times] This year, 19 scholars from different fields in Rwanda secured the Chevening scholarships to go to study in the United Kingdom (UK).
There are a lot of tempting offers. We look at the best deals from freebies to overdrafts
Heading to university in September? HSBC has been named as the best bank for students by MoneySavingExpert, with Nationwide and Santander following closely behind.
HSBC gets the thumbs up for the free £100 it gives students opening a new account by the end of this year, plus the £1,000 interest-free...
This fall, more American students than ever will start their first day of school learning in a language other than English.
[News24Wire] The renaming of Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd is not about hate, but about the restoration of dignity, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has said.
[New Republic] Big within store for AP While proposed changes for the KOMMET Reasoning Test have received lots of publicity and are becoming closely administered by moms and dads, advisers, test prep corporations and college-bound students, the faculty Board’s change of the Leading-edge Placement (AP) program have not received pretty much as much particular attention.
Institution believed to first British university to set up restorative justice scheme
Glasgow University has completed a “bold, historic” move to atone for its historical links to the transatlantic slave trade by paying £20m in reparations.
It signed an agreement with the University of the West Indies to fund a joint centre for development research, at a ceremony in Glasgow on Friday morning.
[SAnews.gov.za] Ally Seerang used to steal anything made of metal and sell his loot to feed his drug addiction. Today, Seerang is using the same metal to support his family after taking part in an artisan training programme.
[Ghanaian Times] Ya-Naa Abukari Mahamadu II, the King of Dagbon Traditional Area has honoured Ghana National Scholarship Beneficiaries Association (GNASBA) and Fan Milk Limited for their strong partnership in promoting sanitation and afforestation countrywide, of which 126 districts in 13 regions have benefited from such dispensation.
[Ghanaian Times] The Municipal Director of Education for La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly, Mrs Bernice Addae has urged parents to cultivate the habit of speaking more local language at home with their children at the basic school as a foundation to satisfy the desire for their children to speak fluent English Language.
[Ghanaian Times] A member of the Media Coalition against Open Defecation (M-CODe), Mr Cecil Nii Obodai Wentum, has called on the government to make budget allocation for the operation and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities in public schools.
[Ghanaian Times] THE Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison on Monday, warned caterers and people involved in the School Feeding Programme to desist from inflating figures of beneficiaries of the programme.
[Daily Trust] One of the major policy proclamation made by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje after securing his second mandate in office is the declaration of Free and Compulsory Education Policy in the state. Subsequently, strings of measures were introduced aimed at exploring ways of implementing the policy with a view to confronting the various problems weighing against functioning of the sector.
Lucie’s new school uniform is on the dishevelled side by the end of the five-year-old’s first day.
[Radio Dabanga] Omdurman -The Central Omdurman Court held the first session of the trial of the alleged killers of Ahmed El Kheir on Wednesday, while hundreds gathered in front of the court demanding retribution for his death.
[Daily Trust] Director General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Dr. Dan-Azumi Mohammed Ibrahim, has been appointed as chairman of the Government, Academia and Industry Board of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State.
Entrenched inequality, attacks by conservatives, student protests: Richard A. Carranza’s first year as schools chancellor.
In her Help Desk column, Judith Newman shares books on “adulting” — learning the skills we need to make it in the world, without Mom or Dad at the ready.
I felt less than human until I was given a second chance. University has made me stronger, hungrier and more confident
Before I became a student, I felt less than a human being and had almost given up hope. But being given a scholarship was like the appearance of a candle, burning bright to lead me out of the darkness: studying counselling at university has kept me alive.
I was born in Ghana...
[Premium Times] Main entrance to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.