Education

Refugees pursue university education at camp in northern Kenya

Friday, 27 August 2010 13:08

A university education is not what you expect to get at a refugee camp in Africa. But it, indeed, is possible at a camp in northern Kenya.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Kakuma Refugee Camp - University of South Africa - Jesuit Refugee Service - Kakuma Distance Learning Center - Daniel Macharia - bachelor degrees - Reverend Chris Jenkis - Sudan - Kenya

Somalia: Getting an education against all odds

Friday, 13 August 2010 14:39

Five years after a local charity opened a university to offer this bullet-scarred city's youth an alternative to militia life and emigration, the first degrees have been awarded.

(4 Votes)

Tags: Kismayo - university - Kismayo University - graduation - Somalia

Kenya to put all schools online

Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:00

Microsoft, together with the Ministry of Education in Kenya is in the process of implementing programs that will enable all schools in Kenya to be online.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Microsoft - Ministry of Education - Mark Matunga - Kenya Institute of Education - Kenya

Chinese space centre to aid Namibian development efforts

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:08

Namibian science received a boost last month when China's first man in space, Yang Liwei, visited the country as part of a delegation to the China Space Tracking, Telemetry and Command Station, which Namibia hopes will lift its development effort.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Science - Technology - China Space Tracking Telemetry and Command Station - Yang Liwei - Namibia Science Week - Alfred van Kent - Namibian Ministry of Education - High Energy Stereoscopic System - Max Planck Institute - Ebenhezer Kauhonina - Namibia

Thousands of young Ivorians to receive job training

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 14:23

Some 3,000 young people in Côte d'Ivoire, will receive training in the construction, manufacturing and service sectors under a new United Nations project that seeks to help them get involved in their country's economic recovery.

(2 Votes)

Tags: job - employment - skills - development - UNIDO - UN - Cote D'ivoire

African centres hope to produce top mathematicians

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:02

Senegal hopes to begin producing world-class African mathematicians with the first of three Africa-based mathematics training centres, which is due to open in September next year.

(5 Votes)

Tags: education - mathematics - Africa - Canada - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Ghana - Ethiopia - Senegal

New schools along Liberia's border aim to strengthen trade, peace

Friday, 16 July 2010 11:48

Liberia's government has teamed up with UNICEF to build the first of what it calls "child friendly schools". The high tech school is part of a multi-million dollar initiative by the agency to help foster peace and prevent a recurrence of war.

(1 Vote)

Tags: UNICEF - Ganta - Mathew Flomo - Learning Along Borders for Living Across Boundaries - LABLAB - Finley Pitt - Liberia

Canada to support science and technology training for African youths

Thursday, 15 July 2010 14:17

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently announced support of $20 million for the Next Einstein Initiative to encourage and develop the best young minds in Africa.

(5 Votes)

Tags: Canada - Stephen Harper - Next Einstein Initiative - African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - South Africa - Nigeria - Senegal - Ghana - Ethiopia

Leaders unite to boost education

Monday, 12 July 2010 13:41

The lasting legacy of the first World Cup on African soil should be that of education. Addressing heads of state during the 1Goal: Education for All Summit in Pretoria on Sunday, South African President Jacob Zuma said there was no greater legacy than that of education.

(1 Vote)

Tags: 1Goal: Education for All - 1Goal: Education for All Summit - Jacob Zuma - Bafana Bafana - Aaron Mokoena - Sepp Blatter - Pele - Zinedine Zidane - Ronaldo - Barcelona - Manchester United - South Africa

Algeria approves major science funding boost

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:49

The Algerian parliament has approved a bill to spend 100 billion Dinars (US$1.48 billion) on science over five years.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Budget - Abdelhafid Awrag - scientific research - Mila University - Ali Bougaroura - brain drain - University of Algiers - Jaffal Ammar - Algeria

Open-source software intakes African universities

Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:23

Academic research software is still unavailable in many African universities. Now, universities in Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, Madagascar and Equatorial Guinea work with partners in Catalonia to fill this gap.

Tags: Academic research - African universities - Catalonia - Senegal - Mozambique - Cameroon - Madagascar - Equatorial Guinea

Free education becomes legally compulsory in Lesotho

Monday, 17 May 2010 13:36

In a milestone effort to advance progress towards universal primary education, the Government of Lesotho recently enacted the Education Act 2010, legalising the right to free and compulsory education.

(1 Vote)

Tags: education - free - primary - Education Act 2010 - UNESCO - FPE - EFA - Lesotho

Rwandan president pushes educational partnership

Friday, 30 April 2010 12:34

Rwanda President Paul Kagame visited a private school in Atlanta's suburbs on Wednesday in hopes of developing a partnership to build a model school that would educate a "generation of ethical Christian leaders" in the central African nation.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Paul Kagame - education - school - Atlanta - US - Kigali - Christian - Rwanda

Backing grows for African research chairs

Monday, 15 February 2010 11:57

Support is growing for a bid to persuade the G8+5 nations to fund 1,000 senior research positions in African universities.

(2 Votes)

Tags: universities. senior - research - Brazil - China - India - South Africa - Mexico - G8 - chairs - Africa

MTN Nigeria strengthens its educational initiatives

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:58

MTN Nigeria has restated commitment to improve the educational standard in the country through its science and technology scholarship scheme currently underway.

(2 Votes)

Tags: MTN - scholarship - education - development - university - Akinwale Goodluck - Nigeria

Cameroon puts brain drain into reverse

Wednesday, 06 January 2010 12:40

Cameroon is reversing its scientific brain drain by boosting the salaries of university academics. The early signs are that a government fund of $9.5 million, has increased the number of scientists and stabilised the research environment.

(3 Votes)

Tags: science - university - academics - government - research - grants - increase - Cameroon

UNESCO fights brain drain with computing gain

Monday, 04 January 2010 10:37

UNESCO is expanding a scheme that aims to slow the brain drain of African and Arab researchers by giving them access to global scientific networks and computing power.

(3 Votes)

Tags: UNESCO - Arab - science - networks - development - Brain Gain Initiative - Blaise Somé - Africa

Madonna breaks ground on Malawi girls school

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:51

American pop queen Madonna broke ground Monday on a girls academy she is building in Malawi, billed as a "gift" to the country from where she has adopted two children.

(2 Votes)

Tags: Madonna - Malawi

$70 mln to help resuscitate education in Zimbabwe

Thursday, 17 September 2009 11:52

Donors have given Zimbabwe's ailing education system a US$70 million boost in an attempt to reverse the rapid decline of a sector once regarded as the finest in sub-Saharan Africa.

(5 Votes)

Tags: education - UNICEF - boost - development - schools - Peter Salama - Zimbabwe

Ethiopian university lecturers trained in English

Thursday, 20 August 2009 13:14

Approximately 2,000 university instructors, drawn from various universities across Ethiopia, are taking English proficiency training through the Addis Ababa University and British Council.

(4 Votes)

Tags: Addis Ababa University - British Council - International English language Testing System - Barbar Wicham - education - English - Ethiopia

$1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre

Monday, 17 August 2009 12:59

King's College London has been awarded a grant of $1,7 million to fund fellowships in the African Leadership Centre, an initiative that trains young Africans to become analysts and policymakers on peace, security and development in Africa.