Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The African peacekeeping mission in Darfu, the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), has provided education assistance to five primary schools in and around Sortoni, North Darfur. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Only 10 candidates of the 1.6 million students who sat for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), scored 300 and above of the maximum 400 marks, according to local media reports which quoted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A former governor of Nigeria's South-east Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has been stripped of the degree certificate awarded to him while in office by the state-owned Abia State University for failing to meet the requirements for the award of such certificate. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Congolese teachers, scheduled to embark on a nationwide strike Monday, shelved their plan after a meeting of top government officials and various Trade Union organizations, according to a Radio Congo report here Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Abeba, Ethiopia (PANA) – African leaders on Monday threw their weight behind the candidature of Djiboutian Rachad Farah for the position of Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (UNESCO) which would decided on in October. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – American star Madonna has announced the construction of 10 primary schools in rural areas in Malawi for orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi, a press release in Paris said on Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigerians increasingly seek education in foreign universities, the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVC) has revealed that Nigerians spend an average of US$500 million annually on schooling in European and American universities. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations hybrid force in Darfur has donated tents to be used as mobile classrooms to help thousands of nomad children in the region. Full text...

Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA), in collaboration with UNESCO and the Government of Namibia, will organise three important meetings in Windhoek, Namibia, 27-30 November 2012, the task force said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said that national development is closely linked to radical reforms in education system. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nairobi's Kenyatta University has opened a campus in the north-east town of Dadaab and courses there will be open to both Kenyan citizens and refugees living in the nearby refugee complex, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in Nairobi Wednesday. Full text...

Lomé, Togo PANA) - France has given Togo a grant of 700,000 euros or FCFA 459 million for the reform of the West African country’s higher education system. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritania and Palestine on Wednesday signed an agreement under which Palestinian students will undertake further studies in Mauritanian universities, official sources told PANA. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A four-day meeting of the ECOWAS Ministers of Education opened in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Wednesday with the Nigerian Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’I, calling on participants to support new initiatives towards improving education in the sub-region. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – An institute for civil protection studies (ISEPC), which will train civil protection actors from African countries on the prevention, coordination of risks and management of crisis was inaugurated in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday secured over US$ 1.5 billion in commitments for a new initiative to make education a top global priority and boost progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The first seminar of the Sahelian Security College opened here Wednesday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of Niger, Brigi Raffini, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger and Germany on Friday signed an agreement for 9 million euros for the funding of primary education in the west African country. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The University Council that oversees the affairs of public universities in Malawi has announced a 25 per cent increase in salaries of university teachers. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - Seventy-one million bright and hard-working students across the world are not enrolled in secondary or vocational education, the UN specialized agency UNESCO disclosed here Tuesday, saying "This is a tremendous loss of economic and human potential, since each extra year of school can increase an individual’s potential economic opportunity." Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – About 9,555 Senegalese students registered to study in France for the 2011-2012 academic year, an official of the International University Campus of Paris (CIUP), Ozlem Yildirim, told PANA here on Monday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Morocco has granted Mali 100 scholarships, aimed at allowing Malian students pursue further studies in medicine, mathematics, economics, law and languages, PANA learnt on Monday from the Malian ministry of Education. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A senior government official in south West Lagos state has said that over 2.6 million people are illiterates in the state, saying the government had established different programmes in various local council areas to improve literacy level across the area. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali's new school year for 2012–2013 will start 24 September for first timers, PANA learnt here Tuesday at the end of a meeting between the Minister of Education and Literacy, Adama Ouane, and Parents/Teachers association members. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara on Monday announced the creation of three new public universities from the 2014/2015 academic year. Full text...

Bell-Village, Mauritius (PANA) - The Commonwealth Teachers’ Forum, organised in Mauritius alongside the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM), opened Tuesday at the Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre at Bell-Village, near Port-Louis, the Mauritian capital. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and the African Development Institute, the African Development Bank’s focal point for capacity building (AfDB/ADI) on Friday announced the launch of the Education Research in Africa Award (ERAA). Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Higher education and scientific research minister, Naim Al-Ghariani, on Thursday held talks in Tripoli with the ambassador of the US in Libya, Chris Stephen, on prospects of bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, scientific research and training. Full text...

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, (PANA) - Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré has called on his peers to commit themselves to promotion of education in Africa. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - Overcrowded classrooms, too few trained teachers, insufficient books and few toilets, often without separation between boys and girls are some of the problems facing primary school students in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a statistical survey of school and teaching resources in the region by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - The Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, a UNESCO Special Envoy on Literacy for Development, will join UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova on Friday, 25 May, to review the achievements of UNESCO’s Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education during its first year. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – One child out of 10 no longer goes to school in the region of Tahoua, in Central Niger, as a result of a crippling food crisis, according to a survey of the National education service. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Professors in Nigerian universities will now retire at the age of 70, instead of 65, after President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law a Bill for that purpose on Monday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi is to increase the duration of primary education from six years to nine years under education reforms that go into force next academic year. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African ministers of Education, under the umbrella Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF), will meet in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, for five days, starting Monday, the local Vanguard newspaper reported Saturday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Fulfilling his pre-election promises on education, Senegalese President Macky Sall, on Tuesday urged education stakeholders in the country to join hands in saving the country's school system. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A 74-year-old retired army Colonel, Layiwola Adegunju, was among the 5,000 students who were matriculated on Tuesday by the authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, South-west Nigeria, the university said in a statement. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Alarmed at the results of Nigeria's national examinations held recently, the main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a ''national emergency'' the declining standard of education in Africa's most populous nation. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the Republic of Macedonia for offering scholarships to train Nigerian youths in Macedonia. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries have made progress in school enrolment, but struggle to get quality education, according to a paper on the continent’s economic and social situation for 2011, conducted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Commission of the African Union (AU). Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO is to launch a new atlas on gender and education, showing the disparity in the educational pathways for boys and girls, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Anti-riot police in Mauritania on Thursday invaded the premises of the Institute for Higher Islamic Studies and Research (ISERI) in Nouakchott, the capital, to quell student protests, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, (PANA) - The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will release, over the next three years, US$1.3 billion, sources told PANA Wednesday in Ouagadougou. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The five-day meeting of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) entered its second day in Ouagadougou on Tuesday with the plenary session devoted to lessons from recent political revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, on Monday opened the Triennial meeting of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) in Ouagadougou with a call on Africa to give priority to knowledge-based economies. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The president of Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, announced on Monday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, that five universities would be established in the next five years in his country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 152 students have bagged scholarships to study abroad under the Nigerian government's Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) Scholarship Scheme. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU), Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, has decried what he called "the insincerity of government" to revamp the education sector, according to local media reports on Sunday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Pan African University has been officially launched at a ceremony held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) said in a statement Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Ten high school pupils from the Meadowlands Secondary school have returned home to South Africa after attending the second annual Junior Achievement (JA) Africa Region Company of the Year (COY) Competition in Accra, Ghana. Full text...