[Africa Check] IN SHORT: Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education told Africa Check it did not shut down 47 schools and that a viral circular claiming otherwise should be disregarded.
[Ghanaian Times] More than 3,100 basic schools across Ghana are set to be equipped with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) resources, with 299 schools in 29 districts of the Greater Accra Region benefiting from the latest phase of the B-STEM rollout.
[Nile Post] Namutumba District is grappling with a deepening education crisis as daily teacher absenteeism reaches unprecedented levels, with an estimated 270 teachers missing from school each day.
[allAfrica] Nairobi, Kenya — The world is facing increasing inequalities, crises, and needs, which are undermining the support available to millions of people. Global experts have warned that funding gaps and uneven political will threaten progress in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Reduced budgets, restrictive policies, and rising anti-gender movements are...
What does it mean to lose a language? And what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently
There’s an Irish saying, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: a country without a language is a country without a soul. Representatives of some of Europe’s estimated 60 minority languages – or minoritised, as they define them – met in Barcelona recently to...
[Nyasa Times] The barbs traded between the government and the opposition in Parliament on Monday, November 24, 2025 transported me back to childhood–those dusty afternoons after school when grudges were not settled with words but with bare-knuckles. if someone wronged or insulted you during class, the matter never ended in the classroom.
[New Era] Deputy Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture in Namibia Dino Ballotti yesterday launched the Namibia State of Skills Demand and Supply report.
[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the Tuesday’s release of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Maga, Danko-Wasagu local government area of Kebbi State.
[The Conversation Africa] School violence is a global public health phenomenon. This is when learners and teachers are the victims of physical and psychological abuse, cyber threats and bullying, fights, gangsterism, and the use of weapons at school.
An Appalachian community in Virginia was electrified by its high school team’s winning streak. Until the team’s coach disappeared — and allegations against him surfaced.
The new complaint is aimed at changes the Trump administration would make to shift significant functions from the department to other federal agencies.
Rutger Bregman said his comment that President Trump was the “most openly corrupt president in American history” was removed before his lecture was broadcast on Tuesday.
[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES reports that 25 students were kidnapped on 17 November from the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School (GGCSS) in Maga, Kebbi State,
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
Fifty higher education providers in England are at risk of exiting the market within the next two to three years, MPs on the House of Commons education committee have been told as part of their inquiry into university funding and the threat of insolvency.
[Nile Post] The Judicial Training Institute (JTI) has intensified efforts to equip judicial officers with the knowledge and tools needed to reduce Uganda’s longstanding court backlog.
[Nile Post] In the dusty villages, small trading centres, and sprawling refugee settlements of Western Uganda, young girls wake before dawn, not to the chirping of birds or the promise of a classroom, but to the relentless call of survival.
Readers express sorrow about her cancer and dismay at her cousin’s actions as health secretary. Also: Revenge prosecutions; Mark Kelly; donors to universities.
[Liberian Observer] The Deputy Director General for Administration at the Liberia National Lottery Authority (NLA), Ennish L. Fahnbulleh, has called on student leaders of the Cape Mount University Students’ Association (CAMUSA), AME University Chapter, to lead with integrity, empathy, service, and transparency, warning that leadership devoid of these values “will fail both the leader and those...