[Premium Times] The programme was introduced in the wake of the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction and was designed to operate at different levels, including state-led efforts and national coordination through some agencies.

[Leadership] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Niger Delta University (NDU) chapter, has rejected the Bayelsa State Government’s recent approval of a 40 per cent allowance package for public servants, insisting that the measure does not address agreements already reached with university lecturers.

[Nile Post] Kenyan President William Ruto has announced plans to fully fund university and college education for every student who qualifies for admission, saying no child should miss out on higher education because of their family’s financial situation.

[The Conversation Africa] Across Africa, millions of children grow up speaking African languages at home but are later expected to learn through English, French or Portuguese at school. This transition can make learning difficult, particularly when learners are required to understand new concepts in a language they are still developing.

[Nile Post] More than 800 learners from across Uganda participated in the inaugural KCB Schools Chess Tournament held at Kampala Parents School, marking one of the biggest junior chess competitions ever organised in the country.

[Nile Post] My first real lesson in digital literacy came not in a classroom, but while applying for graduate studies abroad.

[Nile Post] King David Junior School is prioritising the emotional recovery of its learners and staff before reopening following the devastating road crash in Kapchorwa District that claimed 24 lives, including the school’s director, Tadeo Ssekadde.

[Nile Post] Centenary Group, through its technology subsidiary Centenary Technology Services (Cente-Tech), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with MicroPay Uganda to develop and scale digital solutions aimed at improving access to essential services in education, healthcare, and insurance.

[Liberian Investigator] More than 80 single mothers and young women graduated Saturday, July 11, from a three-week vocational training program in soap production, agriculture and other livelihood skills, with the Bong County administration pledging an initial 50,000 Liberian dollars toward the program’s next phase.

[Liberian Investigator] – Deputy Minister of State for Administration Bill McGill-Jones told Bong County University’s graduating Class of 2026 to stop looking to the government for employment and start creating jobs themselves, delivering a blunt assessment of Liberia’s labor market at the university’s President’s Tea Party.

[Liberian Investigator] The University of Liberia has gone dark. Not by storm, not by decree, but by the collective decision of the men and women who teach its classes and run its offices, who on Friday shut every campus, suspended every duty and declared they have no confidence in President Layli Maparyan and two of her senior lieutenants. It is the gravest institutional rupture at the state...

A day after police forcibly broke up demonstrations, thousands returned to the protest site in New Delhi to keep pushing for action over the country’s failings in education.

[New Times] Education is at its best when it recognises that children do not all learn in the same way. For a long time, learners with cognitive and intellectual disabilities have been expected to fit into education systems that were never designed with their needs in mind.

[New Era] The National African Students’ Association (NASA) has called for the decentralisation of the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF), saying the absence of regional offices continues to disadvantage thousands of students, particularly those in rural and remote communities.

[Vanguard] The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has warned candidates sitting for its 2026-2027 Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Aptitude Test against examination malpractice and violation of guidelines.

[Ghanaian Times] Telecel Ghana has commissioned and handed over a fully equipped 42-unit computer laboratory to the University of Ghana to support digital learning, research and innovation at the country’s premier university.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — A trained policy analyst, researcher and financial management specialist, Spencer Z. Brown, has told graduates of the 8th Graduation Convocation of the Christ Kingdom Harvest International Elementary School that Liberia’s postwar recovery cannot be achieved without prioritizing youth education.

[New Times] At 36, Ismail Sibomana looks back on the darkest chapter of his life not with shame, but with purpose.

[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia — Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Monday attended the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of master’s students in Islamic preaching and judiciary studies at the Higher Institute for Da’wah and Islamic Studies.

[Liberian Observer] The Adjunct Faculty Association of the University of Liberia (AFAUL) has thrown its support behind University President, Dr. Layli Maparyan, rejecting a recent vote of no confidence passed by the University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA) and the University of Liberia Student Association (ULSA).

[New Times] Rwandans looking for a study path, a research opening or a startup boost have several deadlines coming up this summer.