[This Day] Environmental and social safeguards are important to the well-being of schools in Nigeria.

The painter Julie Mehretu donated $2 million to the art museum to encourage young people to visit.

Forty years after his death, the Californian activist Peter Carr gets a revival of his acerbic paintings and drawings. To make it happen, his protégé spent both labor and love.

Officials in Oklahoma are laying the groundwork to push Christianity into public schools.

[Vanguard] Dr Emmanuel Ahmadu, a Nigerian who wrote the West Africa School Senior Certificate Education 17 times, has earned a distinction from the prestigious London Graduate School in the UK.

[New Zimbabwe] At least 600 pupils and 22 teachers at Dalny Mine 2 Primary School in Sanyati district, Mashonaland West province, face the spectre of sinking into holes dug up by artisanal gold miners.

[New Times] The University of Rwanda (UR) has reinstated its four-year undergraduate degree programs, returning to the traditional structure after a five-year trial with the three-year structure.

[Nile Post] Uganda’s education sector is set for transformation as the Uganda Society for Disabled Children (USDC), Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG), and the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) launch a comprehensive study using Citizen-Generated Data (CGD).

[Nile Post] According to civil society organisations (CSOs), the success of Uganda’s nationwide school feeding program hinges on strategic planning and implementation.

[Daily Trust] The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has disclosed that the federal government is set to develop a national policy on bullying to address the incessant challenge of students being bullied across schools in Nigeria.

[Afrobarometer] Most say police and courts need to do more to protect girls and women from discrimination and harassment.

Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a first-in-the-nation bill requiring insurance companies to cover costs associated with dyslexia diagnoses.

No structures were damaged and no one was injured, but students spent a frantic night sheltering in place as thousands of nearby residents evacuated.

[The Herald] Zimbabwe’s Education 5.0 model represents a significant paradigm shift in the country’s educational approach, addressing both societal needs and national economic priorities.

[The Conversation Africa] The spread of conditional cash transfer programmes in low- and middle-income countries has been described as perhaps the most remarkable innovation of recent decades in welfare programmes. These programmes provide regular cash transfers to poor families contingent on specific behaviours. These include school enrolment and regular attendance.

[Capital FM] NAIROBI — The construction of 3,500 Junior Secondary School (JSS) classrooms is 98 per cent complete, with the second phase of 7,500 classrooms at 70 per cent.