The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) says 350 207 Grade 1 and 8 online admission applications have been successfully processed since the start of the application period on Friday, 22 July. As of Monday, the department said its Online Admissions System recorded a total of 151 949 applications made for Grade 1 and 198 258 […]
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TANZANIA Education Network (TenMet) has urged education stakeholders and university students to exploit opportunities from education meetings by sharing their experiences and knowledge to bring about positive changes in the sector. The call was made in Dar es Salaam over the weekend by the National Coordinator of TenMet, Mr Ochola Wayoga when welcoming education stakeholders […]
This Two part series by Eric Opa Doue with New Narratives examines the county’s school system. Jacob Beegar sits on a rattan chair under a palaver hut while his friends run around. Jacob doesn’t join them. The 15-year-old doesn’t want to play. He would rather be in school. Jacob should be in the 4th grade […]
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A father of twins who scored the top and third place in basic school certificate at Gezira State , died minutes before announcing the results . According to the twins relatives and neighbors that the girl , Mozan Essam , scored the top place at the level of basic exams at Gezira State with a […]
VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Philip Mpango has urged for participatory parenting, to enhance proper child upbringing that will help address the challenge of teenage pregnancy. Dr Mpango made the remarks on Sunday when attending the holy mass service at the Virgin Mary Mkingiwa Catholic Church in Mpanda District, Katavi Region. He said teenage pregnancy remains a big […]
Rwandan women from various sectors have been profiled and added on Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopaedia. Biographies of 264 women from across fields such as politics, activism, sports and the art industry have been profiled both in English and Kinyarwanda, bringing their total to over 400. The initiative by the Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda, […]
Parents have been urged to start using digital payment systems to pay for school fees ahead of the new academic year that starts in September. This is part of a national awareness campaign on figital payments that is being championed by the Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT). The campaign aims to accelerate cashless adoption […]
Since primary education was made free in 2019, there has been a steep rise in both numbers of students and teachers working for nothing. Kakule Sivyaghendera has been an elementary school teacher in Kirumba for nine years. He has yet to be paid. “I have to work in a field after classes if I want […]
Monrovia — The Coral Reef Innovation Lab, International, in collaboration with Blessed Virgin Mary Magnificent hat, has concluded a day-long education dialogue on National Digital Literacy, to meet up with 21st-century technology education. The daylong education 4.0-digital literacy dialogue, brought together education stakeholders and media at Murex Plaza in Sinkor, through highlights on sharing knowledge […]
The New Nation School, a Christian institution, has officially opened its main campus in Accra to meet the growing population of students being enrolled. Located at Lakeside Estate, near Ashalley Botwe, the new campus has a four-storey complex with spacious classrooms, computer and science laboratories and a health centre. At a short ceremony to officially […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has assured that the school calendar for the 2022/23 academic year will not be impacted significantly by the two-week strike action embarked on by teacher unions across the country. He said as part of the measures put in place to ensure that the lost […]
The government has failed to recruit 5,000 new teachers after the budget allocation to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was eroded by inflation, Parliament heard this week. Zimbabwe’s official inflation is currently one of the highest in the world at more than 200% while the local currency has devalued by over 40% since […]
The decisions on the cut-off marks were reached at the 2022 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Degree, Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) and National Diploma (ND). The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and tertiary education stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja adopted 140 as the minimum cut-off mark for 2022 admission into the nation’s universities. […]
Paynesville — Tenth grader Elias M. Chebli won first place in the senior high division at the second annual Science Fair at the Alexander B. Cummings Model Science and Technology School (ABCMSTS) held July 12 and 14, 2022. His project titled, Mechanically Powered Engine Igniter, demonstrated his ingenuity and creativity. This win was followed by […]
The second phase of the Community Digital Literacy Project aimed at providing more school children with relevant educational content and improve their reading skills has been launched in the Tamale Metropolis. It is being undertaken by Vivo Energy Ghana, distributor of Shell branded fuels and lubricants in collaboration with Worldreader Ghana and the Northern Regional […]
NLC has planned to embark on a nationwide protest in support of the striking members of ASUU on July 26 and 27. The federal government has declared the proposed Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as illegal. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Lai Mohammed, stated […]
“I am sad that despite all our efforts to make sure that basic education is given priority in Cross River, some people are still out to frustrate the good intentions of the government and SUBEB.” Cross River Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has condemned the burning of a recently constructed nine-classroom block at St Joseph […]
The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has said governments at all levels will continue to establish more schools to meet the growing demand occasioned by the increasing population in the country. He stated this yesterday in Abuja, during a TETFund’s capacity building workshop for colleges of education from the northern […]