This article looks at the digital divide in education in Tanzania exacerbated by COVID-19 and suggests ways of minimizing educational inequalities. The aim is to achieve inclusivity in digital learning in the rural-urban and rich-poor dimensions. On an early morning Wednesday, I was running Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with the Region’s Administrative Secretary (RAS) and […]
Concerns about maladministration, assassination attempts, academic malpractice, and the state of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme were raised Three universities briefed Parliament on independent investigations into their governance on Wednesday. The University of Fort Hare told MPs it has established a protection programme after two assassination attempts on staff members. The University of South […]
More than 200 girls pursuing science combinations in high school gathered on July 7 to participate in the STEM clubs launch event organised by Starlight Africa. The students represented four high schools across Muhanga and Ruhango districts, namely: Groupe Scolaire Notre Dame de Lourdes, Groupe Scolaire Saint Joseph Kabgayi, College Saint Jean Nyarusange, and Kigoma […]
Since the start of the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces last April, the government stopped paying the salaries of the state institutions’ employees; a decision that impacts all workers in the public sector in Sudan. According to statistics from the Sudanese Ministry of Social Development in 2019, a million […]
Literacy changes lives: in Unesco’s words, it “empowers and liberates people, … reduces poverty, increases participation in the labour market and has positive effects on health and sustainable development”. But in South Africa, 8 out of 10 children cannot read for meaning by the end of their third school year. During the first three years […]
Instruct Educators on Obligations, Improve Reproductive Health Services Pregnant or parenting adolescent girls and women drop out of school in Mozambique because they don’t get adequate support from schools. Girls who become parents often experience discrimination, stigma, and a lack of support and accommodation that makes juggling school and childcare responsibilities impossible. The lack of […]
Maiduguri, Nigeria & Nairobi — Nigeria is home to 15 percent of the world’s out-of-school children. More than 7.6 million girls are not in school, and only nine percent of the poorest girls in the country are in secondary school. The Boko Haram insurgency and other armed groups fuel the out-of-school crisis in northeast Nigeria, […]