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Education for All
Last Updated     17/11/2009    08:51:00
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.    17/11/2009   full text...
Report denounces decline in early childhood education in Senegal
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The findings of a study on early childhood education in Senegal, released Thursday in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, shows that 92 per c e nt of children in that country are out of the pre-school system.    12/11/2009   full text...
Nigeria's opposition kicks against sending teachers to S/Africa
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's vocal opposition party, the Action Congress (A C) has expressed concern over the poor results recorded in the 2009 May/June WAE C and NECO examinations in the country, saying the poor showing is symptomatic of a falling educational standard.    08/11/2009   full text...
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 s atisfaction with the results of the conference on contractual teachers that ende d earlier in the day in the Malian capital, Bamako.    29/10/2009   full text...
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.    29/10/2009   full text...
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.    29/10/2009   full text...
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.    28/10/2009   full text...
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.    28/10/2009   full text...
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 t he Chadian delegation to the conference on contractual teachers.    28/10/2009   full text...
AU calls for training of African teachers
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Senior Programme Officer with the African Union (AU), Mohamed ChĂ©rif Diarra, has called for the proper training of teachers to ensure quality education in the continent.    27/10/2009   full text...
Madonna launches US$ 15m girl academy project in Malawi
Lilogwe, Malawi (PANA) - US pop diva Madonna, on Monday cut a ribbon and planted a tree symbolising the beginning of her US$ 15 million girl academy, PANA repor t ed from here.    26/10/2009   full text...
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 s ic Education, Literacy and National Languages will discuss the issue of contract u al teachers when they meet in Bamako, the Malian capital, from 27 to 29 October.    26/10/2009   full text...
Project to teach English in Libyan universities wins prize
Tripoli, Libya(PANA) - The Project to teach the English language in Libyan unive rsities has been awarded the international prize of the British Cultural Council for the year 2009.    26/10/2009   full text...
Pact sets stage for Nigerian varsity teachers' strike to end
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A pact signed between the Nigerian government and the un iversity teachers' union has paved the way for an end to the suspended three-and - a-half-month strike by the teachers.    22/10/2009   full text...
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 e cializing in providing stationary for schools and researchers participating.    19/10/2009   full text...
Francophone education minsters launch 50th anniversary
Paris, France (PANA) - A round table on the theme, "The quality of education" wa s held in Paris on Saturday to mark the launch of the 50th anniversary of the Co n ference of Ministers of Education of Francophone Countries (CONFEMEN).    17/10/2009   full text...
Ugandan education authorities ban school movements due to swine flu
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - In a bid to check the spread of Swine Flu, Ugandan educ ation authorities have banned visitations to boarding schools, the Ministry of E d ucation said in a statement obtained by PANA here Wednesday.    07/10/2009   full text...
Leaders back use of 2010 World Cup to promote education
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - World leaders have thrown their support behind a campaign to use the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as a platform to promote an education for every child.    07/10/2009   full text...
HP, UNESCO expand project to increase brain gain in Africa, Middle East
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - US-based technology firm Hewlett-Packard and UNESCO Monday announced the expansion of the 'Brain Gain Initiative' from five universities in the pilot phase to 15 additional higher education institutions throughout the Middle East and Africa.    05/10/2009   full text...
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 O ctober in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, according to a statement on Sunday f r om the Embassy.    04/10/2009   full text...
Burundian Education Minister deplores teachers' strikes
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi Minister of Primary and Secondary Educat ion, Ernest Nkeramihigo, here on Monday deplored the strike action by teachers, s aying they were mostly penalising the students.    28/09/2009   full text...
Peace education a necessity, not luxury - SA Minister
Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - South Africa's Minister of Basic Education Angeline Mots hekga has said preaching peace education in her country is "a necessity and not a luxury", in the face of a legacy of inequalities left by the apartheid regime.    20/09/2009   full text...
SA education minister says teenage pregnancies in drastic drop
Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - South Africaâ?s education system is showing signs of a reduction in the high level of teenage pregnancies, which has debilitated the system, as education on prevention of ear ly pregnancy catches on, Education Minister Angelina Motshekga said here Wednesday.    16/09/2009   full text...
Use peace education instead of force, Minister tells African states
Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - African states have failed to make serious advancements in educating the youth in values that promote peaceful co-existence in society due to their preference for force and o ppression to achieve their goals, Kenyaâ?s top education ministry expert said he re Monday.    14/09/2009   full text...
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...
Delegates converge on Mombasa for peace education conference
Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Delegates from several African countries in conflict or post-conflict situation started jetting into Kenyaâ?s southeastern seaport city of Mombasa Sunday evening for a 14-16 Sept. regional conference on â?Education f or Peaceâ?, PANA reported.    13/09/2009   full text...
1.6 million pupils return to school in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1.6 million school children in basic and secondary education levels resumed school in Libya on Sunday to start the 2009-2010 academ i c year.    13/09/2009   full text...
Expert tells Africans to align education with conflicts resolution
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Executive Secretary of the Association for the Devel opment of Education in Africa (ADEA), Ahlin Byll-Cataria, Friday urged African c o untries to adapt education to the needs of conflicts resolution by building on t r aditional values and principles.    11/09/2009   full text...
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.    02/09/2009   full text...
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 n es, official sources in Cotonou said on Wednesday.    20/08/2009   full text...
Striking Nigerian university teachers call govt bluff
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Almost two months into their strike to press for higher wages and better funding of public universities, Nigerian university teachers ha v e vowed a fight to the end even with the stoppage of their salaries.    19/08/2009   full text...
Nigerian govt insists no deal with striking university teachers
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The almost two-month-old strike by Nigerian university teachers may continue indefinitely as the federal government insists it would no longer negotiate with the teachers unless they call off the strike.    18/08/2009   full text...
Zim loses 20,000 teachers to neighbours
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe has lost more than 20,000 teachers to its nei ghbours in the last two years because of poor remuneration, Education Minister David Coltart said here Monday.    17/08/2009   full text...
Poor performance recorded in university admission exams in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 'baccalaureat' examination, which is used to secure ad mission to the university, recorded a low success rate in Mali in the 2008-2009 academic year, according to results published here.    12/08/2009   full text...
University teachers continue strike in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The strike by teachers in Nigeria's public universities entered day 51 Tuesday and is to continue after negotiations broke down between g overnment and union representatives, the teachers said.    11/08/2009   full text...
Youths from 11 African nations attend 'Excellence Camp' in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Some 40 youths drawn from 11 African nations are attendin g the 10th edition of the ''Excellence Camp'' which opened in Mali's capital, Ba m ako, Tuesday.    28/07/2009   full text...
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 r s union, which is demanding higher wages for its members, PANA learnt here.    27/07/2009   full text...
International NGO launches health education programme in Guinea
Paris, France (PANA) - International Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Kosima kan, has launched a health education programme in Kankan, eastern Guinea, to ena b le the people embrace a clean environment in the area.    27/07/2009   full text...
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.    26/07/2009   full text...
WB gives Congo US$20m loan to improve health, education
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Bank has given Congo a US$20-million loan to finance two projects in the health and education sectors, a source close to t h e Congolese Ministry of Economy, Finances and the Budget, told PANA here.    23/07/2009   full text...
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 t he national radio.    22/07/2009   full text...
African ministers in landmark pact to set new education agenda
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - African finance and education ministers ended a landmark meeting here Friday, with a pledge to work together on four key areas critical i n reviving interest in Africa’s education sector and boosting the continent’s ec o nomic growth potential.    17/07/2009   full text...
AU says financial crisis not excuse to cut education funding
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - African states should not use the global financial crisi s as an excuse for failing to deliver key services such as paying teachers’ sala r ies, the African Union (AU) warned here Friday.    17/07/2009   full text...
African ministers mull bonds to finance education
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - African Ministers of Education and Finance meeting here Thursday welcomed a proposal to introduce long-term financial instruments to fin a nce Education in Africa.    16/07/2009   full text...
African ministers told to “shelve” diplomacy when discussing crisis
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - World Bank (WB) Africa Region Vice President Obiageli Ez ekwesili has urged African ministers to put diplomacy aside and engage in a fran k dialogue on efforts to counter the global economic slowdown.    16/07/2009   full text...
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 n is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e c onomic downturn and education.    15/07/2009   full text...
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 n is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e c onomic downturn and education.    15/07/2009   full text...
AU raises alarm over deteriorating university education in Africa
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African Union raised alarm on Wednesday on the persistent and gradual weakening of African universities and institutions of higher learning in favour of foreign universities which was likely to slow down Africa’s own efforts to achieve faster industrialization.    15/07/2009   full text...
Education, prerequisite for economic development, says US Envoy
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The US Embassy in Banjul, in collaboration with the Foru m for African Women Educationist (FAWEGAM) and World Education International Afr i can Division, on Wednesday commenced a sub-regional conference on the Ambassador ’ s Girls Scholarship Programme in Banjul.    15/07/2009   full text...
'Ending corruption key to advancing education in Africa'
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Africa will hardly get out of its backwardness in educat ion unless a firm determination emerges to stamp out corruption, a senior official with the Association for the Development of Education in Afric a (ADEA) has said.    15/07/2009   full text...
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 i ca’s higher education sector, a senior official of the bank said here Tuesday, a h ead of an education and finance ministers' meeting.    14/07/2009   full text...
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 i ca’s higher education sector, a senior official of the bank said here Tuesday, a h ead of an education and finance ministers' meeting.    14/07/2009   full text...
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.    13/07/2009   full text...
African ministers address impact of global downturn on education
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Education and Finance ministers from some 30 sub-Saharan African countries are converging on the Tunisian capital of Tunis to tackle with their external partne rs the impact of the global economic crisis on their domestic educational systems.    10/07/2009   full text...
China backs UNESCO proposal to support higher education in Africa
Paris, France (PANA) - China's Minister of Education Zhou Ji has expressed suppo rt for the proposal by UNESCO to support higher education in Africa.    07/07/2009   full text...
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.    02/07/2009   full text...
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 i 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...
53,000 for university entrance exam in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - At least 53,000 students will take the university entrance examination in Mali on Thursday, PANA reported.    16/06/2009   full text...
Youth Employment Network seeks fine-tuning of education in Africa
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The sub-regional coordinator of Youth Employment Network (YEN), Maria Mclaughlin, has called for the fine-tuning of educational systems i n Africa to get them in line with demands and “needs of modern economies'' on the continent.    14/06/2009   full text...
Burkina Faso PM urges striking teachers to resume classes
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's Prime Minister, Tertius Zongo, on Thursday urged striking national union of teachers and researchers (SYNADEC) to end their two two-month old strike saying government is prepared to dialogue w ith them.    11/06/2009   full text...
Environmental education for Mauritian schools January 2010
Bambous, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Education and Culture Minister Vasant Bunw aree announced Friday that environmental education would be introduced in the sc h ool curriculum as from January 2010.    05/06/2009   full text...
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 l of ministers of education, general and higher education and scientific research of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU).    02/06/2009   full text...
Kenya govt. to boost education sector
Nyahururu, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government intends to increase its budgetar y allocation to the education sector by 30 per cent in the next financial year.    01/06/2009   full text...
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.    01/06/2009   full text...
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 o n, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO), during which he will sign two agre e ments of cooperation between his country and the UN agency, PANA learnt from an o fficial source.    28/05/2009   full text...
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) f rom the World Bank and the British Department for International Department (DfiD ) 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.    28/05/2009   full text...
Norway gives Zimbabwe US$10m to revamp health, education
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Norway Wednesday announced it would give Zimbabwe US$ 10 million to help the country revamp its education and health sectors which had collapsed due to a long-running economic crisis.    27/05/2009   full text...
First Islamic university in Côte d'Ivoire to open this year
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Islamic University of Côte d'Ivoire (UMCI), which is being established by the Islamic National Council (CNI), will open its d oors to students next October, officials of the school said on Friday.    22/05/2009   full text...
Kenyan women benefit from novel education concept
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - It is approaching 2.30 pm ( 11.30 GMT) and the scorching sun makes the land bubble with heat in the Eastern Kenya semi arid plains on th e banks of River Tana.    07/05/2009   full text...
Guinea education sector gets US$170m boost
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Donor agencies are to pump US$ 170 million into Guinea’ s education sector over the 2009-2011 period, according to a statement from cabi n et issued in Conakry on Saturday.    02/05/2009   full text...
World Bank increases financing on health, education
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The World Bank Group said it was mobilising up to US$ 3.1 billion this year in health financing to help developing countries battle th r eats to their social services due to the global economic crisis.    25/04/2009   full text...
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...
Senegal plans African institute for mathematics
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal plans to establish an African institute for math ematics, Mamadou Sangare, Professor at the Mathematics-IT department of the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Seneg al, told PANA.    22/04/2009   full text...
Islamic leader reaffirms ban on French language schools in Touba
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Serigne Bara Mbacké, leader of an Islamic group Mourid B rotherhood General Khalife, has reaffirmed the ban on reopening of French langua g e schools in central Senegalese city of Touba, Senegalese dailies reported on We d nesday.    08/04/2009   full text...
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 r ea by 2015," Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade declared Monday.    06/04/2009   full text...
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.    04/04/2009   full text...
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 a cross Harare and Chitungwiza, as part of its “community-based demonstrations”, W O ZA said in a statement received ion Dakar by PANA.    02/04/2009   full text...
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 n ts they take, including taking their new-born babies to the health districts or m 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...
WOZA urges affordable education for Zimbabwean children
Dakar, Senegal (PANA)– A leading Zimbabwean pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Ar ise (WOZA), on Wednesday resumed its protests against anomalies in their country by turning attention to conditions in schools.    25/03/2009   full text...
UN official says education is key to crisis recovery
New York, US (PANA) - The President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, says children's education should be made central to the assistance given to communities devastated by violence and disaster.    19/03/2009   full text...
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.    19/03/2009   full text...
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 t he France embassy to Libya in collaboration with the Libyan general people's com m ittee for Education and Scientific Research.    17/03/2009   full text...
Libyan/British exhibition on higher education opens in Tripoli
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Libyan/British exhibition on higher education began Mo nday in Tripoli at the initiative of the British Cultural Council, in collaborat i on with the Libyan Al-Fateh University.    17/03/2009   full text...
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...
Canada gives Mali US$14m for census, education
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Canada has given Mali FCFA 7 billion (US$14 million) under two agreements signed by the two countries to finance the West African country’s population and housing census, and an education project.    03/03/2009   full text...
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 , known as a "licenciatura".    11/02/2009   full text...
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 S 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...
Brazil converts Cape Verde debt into education support
Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Brazil has converted US$4 million which it is owed by Cape Verde into project funding in the education sector.    28/01/2009   full text...
Kenyan teachers' strike looms over salary dispute
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan teachers and the government are headed for a major confrontation after the Minister for Education, Prof Sam Ong'eri, declined here Monday to budge further on a protracted salary increment dispute.    12/01/2009   full text...
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 h e death a student during initiation into a club.    09/01/2009   full text...
'160m Africans are illiterate'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura has said at least 160 million adults in Africa, two-thirds of them women, are illiterate.    08/01/2009   full text...
Ex-Nigerian President, Obasanjo, bags university diploma
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The immediate past President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, was among the 100 students who graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Wednesday.    08/01/2009   full text...
Zimbabwe cancels school opening over exams
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Education authorities in Zimbabwe Wednesday postponed the opening of schools across the country over unmarked examinations of various grades written at the end of last year.    07/01/2009   full text...
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 S ector (CONASYSED), ended their deliberation a divided lot, appearing to undermin e their negotiations with government.    22/12/2008   full text...
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$37.2 million to Kenya to finance the project to support the Technical, Industrial Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET), ADB said in a statement here Monday.    22/12/2008   full text...
Kinshasa University teachers begin strike Wednesday
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Lecturers at the Kinshasa University (UNIKIN) have decided to go on strike on Wednesday to protest non-payment of their supplementary benefits for 2008 The decision to proceed on the six-day strike was taken at a meeting held last Saturday by the Lecturers' Association of Kinshasa University (APUKIN).    22/12/2008   full text...
Education bail-out package good for Africa, By Abwao Oluoch
Oslo, Norway (PANA) - An African education bail-out package is looking more urge nt as the continent marches towards the 2015 deadline for meeting the UN set of o bjectives of keeping more children in school as a first step against poverty.    19/12/2008   full text...
Norway backs teacher-training fund for Africa
Oslo, Norway (PANA) - Norway has set aside US$ 1 million towards the establishme nt of a fund for the training of teachers in Africa.    19/12/2008   full text...
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 r cent of the funds allocated for humanitarian aid, were spent on emergency educa t ion.    19/12/2008   full text...
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 s t 4 to 6 per cent of their GNP and 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditures to e d ucation.    18/12/2008   full text...
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