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| Education for All | | Last Updated 17/11/2009 08:51:00 |
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 | Number of Americans studying in Africa up 18% | | Washington, US (PANA) - The number of Americans opting to study in Africa has in
creased by 18 per cent,
higher than Asia (17%) and Latin America (11%), according to the Open Doors 2009
report, published annually by
the Institute of International Education, with support from the U.S. Department
of State's Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs.
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| ADEA lauds results of the Bamako conference | | Bamako, Mali (Africa) - The executive secretary of the Association for the Devel
opment of Education in Africa (ADEA), Ehlin Byll-Cataria, on Thursday expressed
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atisfaction with the results of the conference on contractual teachers that ende
d
earlier in the day in the Malian capital, Bamako.
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| African countries urged to upgrade education systems | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) -The conference on contractual teachers, called Bamako +5,
ended on Thursday in the Malian capital, Bamako, with an appeal to African gover
nments
to mobilize more resources to ensure a better quality of their education systems
and the training of contractual teachers.
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| Mali commends contribution of contractual teachers | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Officials in charge of education in Mali on Wednesday expr
essed satisfaction with the contribution of contractual teachers, affirming that
they made it possible to increase the country's schooling rate from 30 to 87 per
cent over the past 17 years.
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| Mali lauds contribution of contractual teachers | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Officials in charge of education in Mali on Wednesday expr
essed satisfaction with the contribution of contractual teachers, affirming that
they made it possible to increase the country's schooling rate from 30 to 87 per
cent over the past 17 years.
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| Mali commends contribution of contractual teachers | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Officials in charge of education in Mali on Wednesday expr
essed satisfaction with the contribution of contractual teachers, affirming that
they made it possible to increase the country's schooling rate from 30 to 87 per
cent over the past 17 years.
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| Chad hires more community school teachers | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Community school teachers in Chad are currently 70.65% of
the teaching staff, according to a document presented in Bamako on Wednesday by
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he Chadian delegation to the conference on contractual teachers.
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| Bamako, associates to discuss contractual teaching | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Association for the Development of Education in Afri
ca (ADEA), the World Bank, Education International and the Malian Ministry of Ba
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ic Education, Literacy and National Languages will discuss the issue of contract
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al teachers when they meet in Bamako, the Malian capital, from 27 to 29 October.
26/10/2009 full text... |
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| Libya hosts international exhibition on education | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The sixth edition of the international exhibition on edu
cation began on Monday here with about 10 tertiary institutions and companies sp
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cializing in providing stationary for schools and researchers participating.
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| US Embassy to hold college fair for Nigerian students | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) â" The United States Embassyâ?s Educational Advising Cen
ter (EAC) in Nigeria will hold its 11th annual College and Career fair from 6-7
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ctober in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, according to a statement on Sunday f
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om the Embassy.
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| Africa seeks share of global military budget to fight illiteracy | | Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - African education ministers kicked off a three-day meeti
ng in Kenyaâ?s seaside resort of Mombasa Monday with
a plea to the worldâ?s richest economies to dedicate at least one percent of th
eir US$1.4 trillion military expenditure to help fight illiteracy in
Africa, blamed for fueling conflicts.
14/09/2009 full text... |
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| Burkina Faso NGO wins UNESCO prize for literacy education | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - One of the two UNESCO 2009 prizes for Literacy Education
awarded by King Sejong and financed by the Korean Republic has been awarded to
B
urkina's â?Tin Tuaâ?, an NGO in literacy and non-formal education, a press rele
ase from the UN special agency said on Wednesday.
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| Benin inaugurates National Education Council | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin has formed a National Education Council (NEC) that
will be in charge of the coordination and monitoring of major education guideli
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es, official sources in Cotonou said on Wednesday.
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| Burundi University teachers embark on strike | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Activities in the University of Bujumbura, Burundi,
were paralysed on Monday following a strike launched by the institution's Teache
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s union, which is demanding higher wages for its members, PANA learnt here.
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| Burundi builds 704 'community schools' | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi built 704 primary and secondary schools thro
ugh community efforts between 2008 and 2009, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
said on Saturday while inaugurating the schools.
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| Rwandan Minister of Education dismissed | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Secretary of state for primary and secondary
education, Théoneste Mutsindashyaka, has been dismissed from the government, PAN
A reported, quoting a statement from the presidential office, read Wednesday on
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he national radio.
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| Global crisis, a chance for education - Tunisian Minister | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The world economic crisis, instead of being a handicap,
may be an opportunity for students and the education sector to develop, the Tuni
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ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu
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is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e
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onomic downturn and education.
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| Global crisis, a chance for education - Tunisian Minister | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The world economic crisis, instead of being a handicap,
may be an opportunity for students and the education sector to develop, the Tuni
s
ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu
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is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e
c
onomic downturn and education.
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| AfDB to boost Africa’s higher education sector | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is planning to inves
t US$ 714 million to finance 20 different projects targeting improvements in Afr
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ca’s higher education sector, a senior official of the bank said here Tuesday, a
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ead of an education and finance ministers' meeting.
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| AfDB to boost Africa’s higher education sector | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is planning to inves
t US$ 714 million to finance 20 different projects targeting improvements in Afr
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ca’s higher education sector, a senior official of the bank said here Tuesday, a
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ead of an education and finance ministers' meeting.
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| African conference on education opens Wednesday in Tunis | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A three-day conference of African Ministers of Finance a
nd Education, aimed at
"seeking means to support the educational and economic process in Africa against
a backdrop of the current
global crisis", is due to start Wednesday in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis.
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| Namibia to build technical Institute in Congo | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Namibian government plans to build a technical
and vocational Institute in Loudima, Northern Congo, with a view to
strengthening links between the two countries in the area of vocational
training, official sources told PANA on Thursday in Brazzaville.
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| OIF to support distance training in Benin | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)
and Benin's government have signed an agreement establishing the distance train
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ng scheme for teachers, PANA
reported
The initiative, under the IFADEM project which aims at improving teachers' skill
s in teaching French and
also enhancing their professional standing, will involve 500 teachers from centr
al Benin.
24/06/2009 full text... |
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| Arab Maghreb Union education experts meet | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Education experts from five countries began a two-day me
eting in Tripoli on Monday to prepare for the 9th ordinary session of the counci
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of ministers of education, general and higher education and scientific research
of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU).
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| Striking university teachers resume work in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Teachers in Nigeria's public universities resumed work o
n Monday (1June), after a two-week
warning strike to force the federal government to sign the agreement it reached
with the teachers' union on better welfare
and provision of necessary teaching facilities.
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| Toumani Touré visits UNESCO Friday | | Paris, France (PANA) - President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) of Mali will Friday
pay an official visit to the Parisian headquarters of the United Nations Educati
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n, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO), during which he will sign two agre
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ments of cooperation between his country and the UN agency, PANA learnt from an
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fficial source.
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| Nigeria receives World Bank's Education grant | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government on Wednesday said it had receive
d grants totaling N196.6 billion (about 740 million pounds and US$ 180 million)
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rom the World Bank and the British Department for International Department (DfiD
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to help finance a new roadmap for the Nigerian education sector, as approved by
the Federal Executive Council (FEC), according to Thursday's edition of This Day
newspaper.
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| Strike looms in DR Congo education sector | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Teachers’ Union in Congo (SYECO) threatened on
Thursday in Kinshasa to launch a national strike in primary, secondary and vocat
ional schools to press for payment of their salary arrears.
23/04/2009 full text... |
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| Wade advocates for quality education in Africa | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Quality education "must be the utmost priority of Africa
n governments in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in this a
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ea by 2015," Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade declared Monday.
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| WOZA intensifies campaign for “affordable education” in Zim | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A leading pressure group in Zimbabwe, Women of
Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Wednesday intensified its campaign for “affordable
education for all children” in the southern African country by visiting some
12 more schools across Harare and Chitungwiza, as part of its
“community-based demonstrations”, WOZA said in a statement received ion
Dakar by PANA.
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| WOZA intensifies campaign for “affordable education” in Zim | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A leading pressure group in Zimbabwe, Women of Zimbabwe
Arise (WOZA), on Wednesday intensified its campaign for “affordable education fo
r
all children” in the southern African country by visiting some 12 more schools
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cross Harare and Chitungwiza, as part of its “community-based demonstrations”, W
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ZA said in a statement received ion Dakar by PANA.
02/04/2009 full text... |
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| Senegal signs education agreement with WB | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal will soon sign with the World Bank, a programme
allowing a number of low-income families to receive cash in exchange of commitme
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ts they take, including taking their new-born babies to the health districts or
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aintain their children in full-time education, the World Bank told PANA in a sta
t
ement received here Monday.
31/03/2009 full text... |
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| ECOWAS Education ministers to meet in Abuja | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ministers of Education from ECOWAS Member States
will meet
in Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital city, on Friday, 20 March 2009, to
review the progress made on the implementation of the regional priority
programmes on education.
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| Libya hosts French show on higher education | | Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Garyounčs University of Benghazi, 1,050 km east of Trip
oli, on Tuesday provided a base for the French show on higher education held by
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he France embassy to Libya in collaboration with the Libyan general people's com
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ittee for Education and Scientific Research.
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| African historians meet in Paris | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - African historians, including specialists in educational
policies, curricula developers and teachers, begin a meeting in Paris,
France, on Monday under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientif
ic and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
15/03/2009 full text... |
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| Mozambique reforms higher education | | Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The Mozambican government plans a sweeping reform of
higher education which will eliminate the current five-year first degree course
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known as a "licenciatura".
11/02/2009 full text... |
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| Ghana Media discuss reversal to 3-year Senior High School course | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A statement by the minister-designate for education, Mr. A
lex Tetteh-Enyo, that the government would revert to the three-year Senior High
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chool (SHS) programme which was scrapped by the former government was one of the
major news items that occupied Ghana media this week.
31/01/2009 full text... |
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| Government bans social clubs in colleges | | Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – The Government of Sierra Leone has slammed a tot
al ban on all social clubs and cults in all educational institutions following t
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e death a student during initiation into a club.
09/01/2009 full text... |
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| Gabonese teachers' union divided over strike action | | Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Striking Gabonese teachers, who met here at the weeke
nd under the teachers' umbrella union, the National Convention of the Education
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ector (CONASYSED), ended their deliberation a divided lot, appearing to undermin
e
their negotiations with government.
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| ADB supports vocational training in Kenya | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African
Development Bank (ADB)
has approved a loan of US$37.2 million to Kenya to finance the project
to support the Technical, Industrial Vocational and Entrepreneurship
Training (TIVET), ADB said in a statement here Monday.
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| Kinshasa University teachers begin strike Wednesday | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Lecturers at the Kinshasa University (UNIKIN) have
decided to go on strike on Wednesday to protest non-payment of their
supplementary benefits for 2008
The decision to proceed on the six-day strike was taken at a meeting held last
Saturday by the Lecturers' Association of Kinshasa University (APUKIN).
22/12/2008 full text... |
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| Norwegian PM stresses greater spending for education in conflict | | Oslo, Norway (PANA) - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has decried the
low level of funding that aid agencies have allocated to education of disadvanta
g
ed children in Africa, especially those caught up in conflicts, saying only 2 pe
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cent of the funds allocated for humanitarian aid, were spent on emergency educa
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ion.
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| Group plots solution to education following global economic crisis | | Oslo, Norway (PANA) - Participants at the High Level Group meeting on Education
for All (EFA), organized by UNESCO and the Government of Norway, rose from their
meeting in Oslo, the capital, to call on national governments to allocate at lea
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t 4 to 6 per cent of their GNP and 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditures to e
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ucation.
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