[New Dawn] – Advocates appeal to national government

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba — Education Minister Professor Birhanu Nega recently appeared on Bertu Weg, a program aired by the state-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, where he spoke candidly about the long-standing challenges within the education sector and the direction and performance of the country’s education system over the past four years. The interview, noted for its frankness...

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam — FORMER President and Chairperson of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Dr Jakaya Kikwete, has commended the government for its continued efforts to expand access to education for both boys and girls.

[New Dawn] The Director of the Forpoh Vocational Training Institute in Grand Kru County, Gabriel S. Tidoe, has strongly encouraged parents and guardians to take their children’s education seriously if Liberia is to match the educational standards of other countries in the region.

Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, will become the latest to testify about accusations of campus antisemitism.

Productive disagreement is the flavor of the moment.

By next summer, new borrowers will have just two repayment options, streamlining the previous menu to pay off higher-education debt. Here’s what to know.

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location.

Michael Maggart, a high school friend of Anderson’s, has no training or aspirations to be an actor. The director keeps casting him anyway.

[Leadership] National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has declared that no student was killed in the recent crisis at the Federal Polytechnic in Auchi, Edo State.

[Afrobarometer] Eight in 10 families say they have benefited from free schooling.

[The Conversation Africa] Almost 70 years after independence was gained across the continent, many African countries continue to face the complex task of managing ethnic diversity and building national cohesion. National cohesion is a broad and often abstract concept. It refers to the extent to which people within a country share a sense of common purpose and belonging. It is often reflected in...

[The Conversation Africa] South African primary schools are facing a crisis. Every day, learners fight, bully, destroy property, and intimidate other learners and teachers, turning what should be safe spaces into places of fear and mistrust.

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and dispersing federal funding.

Also, Trump promised to help secure weapons for Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

Lawyers for the Trump administration had asked the justices to block a lower court order that directed officials to reinstate thousands of fired employees.