[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.

[New Dawn] The Liberia Standards Authority (LiSA) has concluded a high-level engagement session with representatives from academia and various regulatory bodies, aimed at strengthening collaboration between the authority and its institutional partners.

[Daily Maverick] Many no-fee schools in South Africa don’t have the resources to provide the academic and non-academic support that learners and staff need. Through working together as a school community and mobilising the support of nonprofit organisations, Kraaifontein High School managed to increase its matric pass rate by more than 30 percentage points in two years.

[Daily Maverick] More than a decade after warnings about rising learner numbers, classrooms at Walmer High remain overcrowded, with temporary prefab structures in visible decline and little progress on construction of a second school despite provincial budget allocations.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala — A new group of 20 Ugandan students has been selected to benefit from the Airtel Africa Tech Fellowship, a Shs 3.85 billion initiative aimed at supporting talented learners from disadvantaged backgrounds who are pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The programme, run by the Airtel Africa Foundation, will fully cover...

Linda McMahon is shocked — shocked! — that there’s been a backlash to the Department of Education’s ‘History Rocks!’ tour.

[Leadership] Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has marked a personal milestone after graduating from a discipleship class at Streams of Joy International, the ministry led by Pastor Jerry Eze.

[Leadership] The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project in Bauchi State is set to train and equip 156 technical service providers on environmental and social safeguards to support the implementation of its activities across the state.

A fast-growing network of private schools, the brainchild of a North Carolina neurosurgeon, is teaching 9,000 war orphans and other needy Palestinian youngsters.

[Daily News] Zanzibar — THE Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar has launched a major education infrastructure programme to construct more than 400 classrooms across Unguja and Pemba, aimed at easing congestion and improving learning conditions in schools.

[This Day] The Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, last Thursday, hosted a landmark mock court sitting, bringing students, legal mentors, and retired Judges together in a practical demonstration of advocacy skills. The event, sponsored by alumnus, Mike Igbokwe, SAN, saw law students take on the roles of prosecution and defence Counsel, while retired Justice Toyin Taiwo presided as the sitting...

[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA — The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has unveiled its much-anticipated WAEC Digital Certificate Services System (WAEC DigiCert) across all its member countries, a move aimed at strengthening modernity and enhancing easy access.

[Ghanaian Times] The National Labour Commission (NLC) has summoned all four tertiary education unions and their employers to appear before it to address the ongoing strike action in the country’s higher education institutions.