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[The Patriot] Recently, the Junior Certificate of Education exam results were released. Although they showed a small improvement on the previous year’s results, they still make for dismal reading. And still barely 1% of candidates obtained an overall A grade; in contrast to the too many candidates who only achieved lower grades – D, E and U. And results in rural schools are even worse. Our...
[This Day] Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, yesterday reaffirmed African School of Governance (ASG), commitment towards addressing a leadership gap through training focused on corporate governance, gender equity, and public-private collaboration.
[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education has welcomed today’s engagement with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) on its readiness for the 2025 academic year.
[Premium Times] Mr Moghalu was appointed as the inaugural president of ASG in October 2024
[This Day] A Nigerian, Urinrin Otite, from Delta State, has made history by becoming the first-ever graduate of the Master of Science in Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience program at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, United States.
[Namibian] Pupils from various schools at Rehoboth recently hosted events honouring the life and legacy of the first president of an independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma.
[New Times] Rwanda is considering ways to scale up short courses on vocational trades to support 1.2 million people Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET), who dropped out of school and could not return to general education.
The money will be used to build new schools and for refurbishments to improve energy efficiency.
[GroundUp] Ketlane Primary School in Limpopo says its pleas for help from the provincial education department have gone unanswered
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Juja MP George Ndung’u Koimburi was arraigned in a Kiambu court following his arrest on Tuesday over allegations of forging academic documents.
Education department meeting in wake of new Trump policies was ‘incomplete and chaotic’, staff say
Workers inside the US Department of Education have described a “horrible, intimidating and unnerving” atmosphere among the rank-and-file as Donald Trump vows to shut it down.
Widespread panic and confusion over the department’s future led to an “incomplete and chaotic” staff meeting on...
Portrayals of animal as melancholic and unintelligent are incorrect, say leads of University of Exeter module
From Eeyore to Shrek, donkeys on the big screen have traditionally been characterised as stubborn or comedic. But a new university film course run in partnership with a donkey sanctuary is hoping to rehabilitate the animal’s reputation.
The film studies module at the University of...
About 20 pupils are learning how to be “upstanders” so that they can look out for younger children.
[Ghanaian Times] The President, John Dramani Mahama, yesterday opened a three-day National Education Forum in Ho, the Volta Regional capital.
[Premium Times] The Minister ordered IBEDC to extend power restoration to the College of Medicine and the halls of residence.
A charity wants parents to delay smartphone purchases for their children until they are least 14.
Critics say extra funding announced will not solve Wales’ higher education financial challenges.
The leader of the national organization said that the university chapter’s president had not been authorized to speak with “Vanity Fair” for a profile in which she said President Trump’s youngest son was “sort of like an oddity on campus.”
Education department gives ultimatum to stop using ‘racial preferences’ as factors in admissions or risk losing money
The Trump administration is giving the US’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness”.
In a memo on Friday, the education department gave an ultimatum to stop...
[New Dawn] Students of the University of Liberia are protesting the death of one of their colleagues in hospital.