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[Nigeria Health Watch] In Ghari Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano, adolescent girls are embracing health awareness through the Five Cowries’ Furanni programme, a local initiative in collaboration with Nigeria Health Watch. The programme equips girls through a knowledge pathway with vital health, hygiene, and self-care knowledge, addressing long-standing misconceptions and barriers to...
Pupils at Solihull School are offered a break from homework if they use their smartphones less.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — President William Ruto has urged students who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations to take advantage of the newly introduced mid-year exams to improve their grades and qualify for admission to higher learning institutions.
[Government of Mauritius] The potential of students, who are the future of this country, is immense and the importance of the next seven years in shaping their future and the nation’s progress cannot be undermined.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa’s national education quality assurance body, Umalusi, has approved the release of the November 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.
[GroundUp] Edumarks offers results early to NSC students for R100
Local police are investigating a “security concern” that led to the closure, the school district said. The mayor said there was “no immediate threat.”
[The Conversation Africa] When we set out to study pandemic-related changes in schools, we thought we’d find that learning management systems that rely on technology to improve teaching would make educators’ jobs easier. Instead, we found that teachers whose schools were using learning management systems had higher rates of burnout.
[Liberian Observer] The University of Liberia is at a cross-road and the administration of its newly inducted president, Dr. Layli Maparyan, has a herculean task to undertake. Everyone knows that the nation’s premier institution of higher learning must be given all of the support to make strides as it molds the minds of the younger generations. At the core of UL’s perennial challenges are...
[Liberian Observer] — As university bids farewell to Acting President Conteh
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia — A new era is probably about to become a reality at the University of Liberia (UL), one that might shift the narrative of Liberia’s oldest public tertiary education institution if Dr. Layli Marpayan’s words translate into action.
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the case’s relevance today.
[Parliament of South Africa] The Select Committee on Education, Science and Creative Industries Chairperson, Mr Makhi Feni, has called on the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to focus on its primary function of school admissions and teaching on the first day of schools reopening.
[Namibian] Education executive director Sanet Steemkamp says 900 000 pupils are expected to be in classrooms at 2 036 schools countrywide.
[Nile Post] Mubiru Enock Joel, a student from the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), is among over 13,000 graduates at Makerere University’s 75th graduation ceremony, scheduled for January 13-17, 2025. Mubiru will graduate on Tuesday, January 14, as the top-performing student in the sciences.
The University of Chichester is to offer five and 10-week courses in a range of subjects.
DfE urged to delay ending funding of popular programme so that hundreds of students can complete their courses
• Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake
State school pupils taking GCSE Latin may be forced to drop the subject or even have to teach themselves after the government ends funding for a popular programme that has increased the numbers learning Latin across England.
School...
In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it
Mind your language: how learning French helped me remove the condom from the wine
I’d been learning Japanese on and off for years when, on New Year’s Day 2022, I realised I could still barely master the sushi bar menu. Three years on I’m now reading my...
There are about 450 students on aerospace engineering courses at the university.
Some people never learn to read or swim or even cook as children – but with the right spirit there’s still time to make things right
I was 44 when I learned to cycle. I grew up in Yorkshire and when I was about five, my younger brother had broken his leg falling off a tricycle. We never had bikes after that – and like many girls my age of Asian heritage, I wasn’t pushed to do sporty or...
Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus
A scheme to bring powerful works of art into the classroom is to be rolled out across British secondary schools in the coming year, with the aim of reaching a million students daily in 1,000 schools by 2027.
Works by Van Gogh,...