The government has committed one billion dollars to revamp Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). This is intended to make it more attractive and capable of equipping the students with the required skills needed in the industrial sector of the economy. The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Stephen Yakubu, disclosed this when he addressed […]
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The Paramount Young Women Initiative (PAYOWI) in collaboration with two of Liberia’s women rights advocates and Feminists have vowed to raise awareness of the need to improve WASH in Schools through a project named and styled “Advocacy Action for Girls Friendly WASH in Schools. The move follows years of entertaining complaints from female students on […]
ASUU said enough can’t be enough until the president moves to reposition the decaying public university education in the country. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that “enough is enough” of the ongoing strike by the university lecturers. Mr Buhari had called on the striking lecturers to […]
Minister of Education Agnes NyaLonje has challenged heads of higher learning institutions to promote research to address challenges the country is facing. NyaLonje made the remarks on Thursday in Lilongwe during an interface meeting with heads of higher learning institutions. She said research provides independent evidence to inform choices, and decisions for the country. “Universities […]
With about 10 months to the end of his second term tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said he was eager to leave office and retire to his home town, Daura in Katsina State. This was just as the president called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider their position on the prolonged […]
ASUU has been on strike for over four months after accusing the federal government of reneging on previous agreements including the agreement to increase funding of public universities. President Muhammadu Buhari has again called on striking university lecturers (ASUU), and expressed worry that the strike will have generational consequences on families, the educational system and […]
A screenshot of a graphic posted on Facebook claims that the Ugandan minister of education and sports, Janet Museveni, has called out teachers for demanding higher salaries. Museveni is married to Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni. The graphic includes a photo of Janet Museveni and a quote that reads: “What sort of professionals are they? You […]
As a means of motivating students across the country to develop interest in Sciences upon completion from high school, the state-run University of Liberia College of Health Sciences (ULCHS), in partnership with the United States-based partner Universities Yale and Vanderbilt, has begun the recruitment process for the second batch of students Camp xSEL (Excellence in […]
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Ghana: 105 Students Graduate From KAIPTC
A former Commandant of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Air Vice Marshal (AVM), Christian Edem Kobla Dovlo (Rtd), has advocated three key actions needed to advance peace and security education across the country. They included developing educational policies and appropriate legislation that supported peace and security civic education from the very foundation […]
Kiambu — The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) and Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) have endorsed Raila Odinga for the presidency. The Secretary Generals from all three-trade union Collins Oyuu, Davji Atella and Akelo Misori rallied their support for the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya […]
The principal of the government-run Lango Lippaye Senior High School in Kakata, Margibi County describes the state of Education in Liberia as “unattractive and dying.” Principal Morris Farweneh laments that the education sector is fast declining and becoming unattractive to lure competent and qualified individuals, especially under the CDC-led government. “The fact that people in […]
Meanwhile learners at Eyabantu Senior Secondary school in Fort Beaufort are crammed into tiny temporary classrooms Pigs and cows graze at the abandoned site of the new R39-million Eyabantu Senior Secondary School in Fort Beaufort while the 451 learners are crammed into 12 tiny classrooms. The Eastern Cape Education Department says the building contractor left […]
Education department says it will refurbish Mohokone Primary in 2023/4 Frank Itswene, principal of Mohokone Primary in Ga-Kgapane village, says the roof of his school is a constant worry for him. He has pleaded for a new building with the education office for Mopani District, Limpopo, but has not received any support. The rusting, leaking […]
Sumbrungu — The unemployment rate in the country can only be minimised if the government and other stakeholders give a serious consideration for the funding of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), the Vice Chancellor of the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU), Professor Samuel Erasmus Alnaa, has observed. Professor Alnaa who made the observation during […]
THE ongoing strike embarked upon by four university-based unions has taken a new twist, as lecturers in medical schools of some Federal Universities have distanced themselves from the industrial action. This came on a day the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said the Federal Government’s promise of immediate reply to its submission to the […]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, led to the disruption of lives and activities in Ukraine including education. The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday announced a platform to facilitate the placement of Nigerian students evacuated from Ukraine into Nigerian tertiary institutions. This is despite the over four months’ strike by […]
Pre-tertiary public school teachers are on an indefinite strike for failure of the government to pay them 20 per cent of their salaries as Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) to mitigate the impact of the ever-rising cost of living in the country. Led by their unions, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National […]
Four teacher unions have declared an indefinite nationwide strike over government’s inability to grant them their 20 per cent Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). The Unions were the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT-Ghana), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU). […]