[Daily Maverick] Order has been restored at the University of Cape Town following Monday’s disruptive protests, yet the academic future of roughly 1,400 self-funded students remains precarious owing to outstanding debt and registration blocks.

[This Day] Abuja — The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the vending of e-PINs for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will close at midnight on Thursday, February 26, 2026.

[New Dawn] Monrovia, February 19, 2026: President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has appointed new members to the Board of Trustees for Grand Gedeh University to advance the institution’s academic and administrative development.

[FrontPageAfrica] Bong County — Senator Prince Moye on Wednesday, February 18 announced that his privately owned institution, Sumo Moye Memorial School, will be turned over to Bong County University to serve as an annex, in a move intended to address the growing space challenges confronting the newly elevated university.

[Leadership] Science and innovation drive modern societies, yet across the world, women and girls remain on the margins of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

We invited teenagers to write miniature memoirs about meaningful moments in their lives. Read the 17 winning stories, selected from over 14,000 submissions.

The president of Bard College raised millions to save his school from closure. As he sought donations, he talked with Jeffrey Epstein about music, watches and young female musicians.

A group of academics at the University of British Columbia say the school’s D.E.I. policies and practices, which include land acknowledgments, violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.”

[Capital FM] Nairobi — A growing trend of schools picking up learners in the early hours of the morning has sparked concern among parents and the public, after a Kenyan man confronted a school driver for collecting children at 4 a.m.

[Premium Times] As of 2025, Zamfara State had approximately 455,947 out-of-school children, according to Zamfara SUBEB and UNICEF data

A growing number of states are debating whether to alter their policies on summoning child protection officials if a student has excessive absences.

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Wednesday, February 18, received a delegation of global education and development leaders at Village Urugwiro, ahead of the Global Learning Conference 2026, which opens tomorrow in Kigali.

[Nyasa Times] Reports reaching Nyasatimes have revealed a disturbing trend in Machinga District where some school children are skipping classes to repair potholes on a major highway in order to beg for money from passing motorists.

[Afrobarometer] Most citizens support women’s autonomy in marriage and childbearing decisions.