Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The result of a study by an American institute has shown that most Africans who earn their doctorate degrees from US universities remain in the country five years after earning the advance degree. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambian Secretary of State for Higher Education, Science , Research and Technology Mr. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- UNESCO has said this year's Education for All, Global Action Week (21-27 April) will focus on quality education to end exclusion. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The headquarters of the Association for the Development o f Education in Africa (ADEA) will be relocated from Paris, France, to Tunis, Tun i sia, by the end of the first half of 2008, reliable sources told PANA here. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The 2008 biennial conference on Education in Africa will be held in Maputo, Mozambique, 5-9 May, according to the organisers, Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The strike embarked upon by Mauritania's Higher Education Teachers' Union (SPES), to push for higher salaries, entered the second day Monday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government's Professional Skills Development Fund (FUNDEC) is to support the implementation of 60 vocational and professional training projects in public and private institutions and in communi ty organisations. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian Prime Minister Modibo Sidibe has announced a that a national dialogue will be held in the next five months on education issues. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Lagos state in Nigeria has awarded a scholarship to a student who emerged the overall best in a world debate on the effects of modern-day slavery in Nigeria. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered Vice Chanc ellors of the nation's universities to withhold the salaries of lecturers who em b arked on a one-week strike to press for the absorption of the sacked 49 lecturer s of the University of Ilorin, according to Sunday's edition of the privately-owned Punch newspaper. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- National and international experts gathered here Thursday to begin work on a UNESCO draft implementation of the regional education strategy for sustainable development. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the one-week 'warning' strike embarked upon by Nigerian university teachers entered the third day Wednesday, the lecturers have scoffed at the threat by the government to invoke the no-work-no-pay clause in the Trade Dispute Act. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government has warned striking university teachers they risk losing their pay if they fail to return to work immediately. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Lecturers in Nigeria's 58 public universities began a week-long 'warning' strike Monday to press for the reinstatement of 49 of their colleagues, who were sacked for participating in a strike in 2001. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The maiden French higher education show, organised by th e Embassy of France in Libya, in conjunction with the Libyan general popular com m ittee on higher education, kicked off Monday at the University Al-Fateh of Tripo l i. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Nouakchott University and the Saint Louis Gaston Berger University in Senegal have signed a cooperation agreement in the areas of scientific research, higher education and economic development. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan Education Minister Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamaliya has suspended about 50 headmasters, teachers and supervisors for advocating genocide in their schools, The New Times daily reported here Thursday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The Al-Tahadi University of Sirte in Libya and the University of Khartoum in Sudan on Saturday signed a scientific and cultural co-operation accord in Sirte under which they will co-operate in the scientific and cultural fields. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The Academic Staff Association (ASA) of the University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, Thursday embarked on an indefinite strike to protest the non-payment of arrears of salaries and allowances. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government is to improve its inspec tion activities in higher education institutions to ensure good quality of new g r aduates, for them to be able to face present and future challenges, declared gov e rnment spokesperson and Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- As nations reached midway of the 2015 deadline set for the achievement of the objective of Education for All (EFA), efforts exerted by the international community are expected to focus more on the quality of teaching, now identified as the weak spot among indicators of the 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report, launched Tuesday, in the Senegalese capital. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Director general Koïchiro Matsuura of UNESCO's will convene a meeting of the high level group on Education for All in Dakar for a mid-term review of the 2015 deadline regarding the achievement of the six objectives of the initiative. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Minister of Education, Dr. Full text...

All Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) – Not all African count-ries will achieve Education for All (EFA) in 2015, which is part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a senior official of the World Bank warned in Tunis on Thursday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Education for all (EFA) might not be attained by all Afr ican countries by 2015, the officer in charge of the human development departmen t of the World Bank Africa region, Mrs. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia is about to achieve the Millennium Development Goal in the Education sector, according to statistics made public by the government during the international workshop on Education-for-all Initiative for the accelerated implementation (EPT-ETI) which started Monday in Tunis. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Participants at the recently concluded workshop on educa tion for rural people in Africa have tasked African governments to increase publ i c resources for education in rural areas. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian education and training minister, Sadok Korbi on Monday called for greater investment in education for Third World countries to attain the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in the sector. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The strike by Burundi university lecturers, protesti ng the spate of violence in their institution, entered its third week Monday, ac c ording to a PANA report from here. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- High-level officials from the Ministries of Education an d Agriculture from 11 African countries will participate in a workshop on educat i on for rural people in Africa, to be held at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy , 28-29 November, according to a statement from the organisers. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's federal government has stopped plans mooted by the immediate past administration to privatise or concession out the 102 government-run secondary schools, tagged 'unity schools', the local press reported Wednesday, quoting Education Minister Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is to be introduced into the primary school curriculum in Nigeria, following Friday's launch of a new basic education curriculum for primary and junior secondary schools in the country. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Founder of the American University in Nigeria (AUN), for mer Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, said the recent appointment of South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu to the board of the university was informed b y his credibility in all spheres of life. Full text...

Madison- US (PANA) -- The Nigerian North-Central State of Kano and the University of Wisconsin (UW) System in the US are to partner to enhance university education in Kano. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has been named into the Board of Trustees of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), a statement from the university's founder said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Dean of the Facuilty of Economic Sciences of the University of Dakar, El Bachir Wade, on Saturday hailed the creation in Senegal of a regional doctoral campus by the Conference of Teaching and Research Institutions in Economics and Management in Africa (CIERA). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The REPETTO Foundation formed last September to give marginalized children and teenagers access to dance, has announced that a collection of items customized by personalities to mark the 60th anniversary of the brand, will be auctioned in October 2008 with the proceeds going to UNESCO. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the UK outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to a new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Gabonese national education minister, Michel Menga, on Wednesday urged teachers to display a sense of responsibility by exploring other solutions than going on strike in the face of problems in the education sector. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Washington has planned to release US$525 million over the next five years to support the ministries in charge of education in six countries, including Mali, Mali, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Liberia, said a statement of the US embassy in Bamako received Saturday at PANA. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – A higher education -institution, called Popular University of Mauritius (UPIM), a totally free entity that requires no degree for entry nor delivers any, will be launched next week at the City Hall of Port-Louis, an official source told PANA Friday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The French Development Agency (AFD) has granted six million euros to fund Congo's education project under an agreement signed in Brazzaville on Friday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- China has granted Congo CFA2billion to build a modern library in the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville and three primary schools in the rural areas. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The 34th session of the General Conference, which every two years brings together the Member States of UNESCO, will open next 16 October in Paris under the chairmanship of Musa Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan of Oman. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The rescheduled commencement of of the 2007-2008 academic year in Benin began on Thursday amidst controversies as teachers were not teaching. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin will allocate 30% of its budget to the education sector, President Yayi Boni said in his nationwide address late Tuesday, a day before the resumption of classes. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The world needs 18 million new teachers by 2015, with the requirement of Africa alone being four million, to meet the target of providing quality primary education for all children, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- UNICEF launched on Wednesday in Abidjan the third edition of the national campaign on "the return and maintenance at school of all children, especially girls". Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's education system has recorded an appreciable progress over the past five years, the Minister of Basic Education, Ousmane Samba says. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Partners of universal schooling on Tuesday observed that Burundi could find it difficult to attain the education for all (EFA) goal set for 2015 with all the structural problems still currently undermining the sector of basic education. Full text...