Education

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.

(2 Votes)

Tags: King's College London - African Leadership Centre - analyst - policymaker - Carnegie Corporation of New York - Africa

First South Sudan University opens

Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:07

Rumbek University, which will be the first higher education institute in Southern Sudan, will open this academic year. A government delegation arrived this week to the capital of Lakes State to discuss the opening of the University.

(2 Votes)

Tags: Rumbek University - Lakes State - opening - education - National Fund for Students Care - Sudan

Senegal to become part of ambitious maths network

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:57

Plans are well underway to create an African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Senegal, according to the project's coordinator. AIMS-Senegal is part of the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, which aims to establish 15 centres across the continent over the next decade.

(3 Votes)

Tags: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Mamadou Sangharé - Mbour - Senegal

Ghana to expedite ICT delivery in education

Friday, 10 July 2009 12:53

The Ghanaian government has reiterated it's commitment to a comprehensive ICT system in the education sector, Dr Joseph S. Annan, Deputy Minister of Education, made the pledge on Wednesday in Accra.

Tags: Dr Joseph S. Annan - ICT - education - Ghana e-Schools and Communities Initiative - Rwanda - Zambia - Tanzania - Kenya - Uganda - Senegal - Burkina Faso - Mali - Botswana - Lesotho - Mozambique - Namibia - Cameroon - Ghana

New radio series explains ICC mandate

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 12:18

The International Criminal Court (ICC) today launches a series of radio programmes in the Central African Republic (CAR) aimed at informing the country's population about the court's mandate and activities.

Tags: International Criminal Court - radio programme - population - education - Central African Republic

Ethiopia: education via TV

Thursday, 02 July 2009 16:11

Faced with the daunting task of reaching millions of students scattered in a mostly rural nation twice the size of France, the Ethiopian government turned to two South African companies for help.

(1 Vote)

Tags: education - students - Kagiso Educational TV - Sasani - television-based curriculums - Ethiopia

Famous adventurer promotes transfrontier conservation

Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:22

The Boundless Southern Africa expedition is underway. The initiative, which promotes Southern Africa's seven transfrontier conservation areas as investment and tourism opportunities, finished the first leg earlier in June.

(2 Votes)

Tags: Boundless Southern Africa expedition - seven transfrontier conservation areas - investment - tourism - Kingsley Holgate - South Africa - Botswana - Angola - Namibia - Zambia - Zimbabwe - Mozambique - Swaziland - Lesotho Southern Africa

Botswana builds new science university

Thursday, 18 June 2009 08:27

Construction on the long-awaited Botswana International University of Science and Technology has begun. Hopes are high that the institution, when complete, will be the educational pride of the country.

Tags: construction - International University of Science and Technology - education - United Nations Development Programme - Botswana

West Africa: Multinationals tackle youth unemployment

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:58

American companies such as Microsoft and Google have joined forces with NGOs and development organizations in a bid to boost employment rates among young people in West Africa.

(4 Votes)

Tags: Microsoft - Google - employment - youth - Youth Empowerment Program - United Nations - West Africa

Zimbabwe: looted money returned to universities

Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:15

The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, has reimbursed foreign currency looted from university accounts in a development that has also seen him fall out with the country's Finance Minister Tendai Biti.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Zimbabwe

Private higher education boosts Senegal economy

Tuesday, 02 June 2009 15:58

Private higher education contributes nearly CFA 13 billion (US$27.7 million) a year to the Senegal economy, according to Abdou Samb, former president of Cesp, a cooperative representing the sector.

(1 Vote)

Bringing ICT to Kenyan school children

Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:56

When this year’s budget is read, one man in Mlolongo will be praying that Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta reduces import tax on computer hardware.

(2 Votes)

Tags: ICT - education - NGO - Tom Musili - Computers for Schools Kenya - Kenya

Tower sharing offers mobile providers major cost savings

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:26

Mobile operators in Africa and Middle East could save a cumulative $8bn over the next five years according to the largest telecoms advisory and investment firm across Africa.

(1 Vote)

Zimbabwe: making schools work

Tuesday, 05 May 2009 11:12

The authorities announced a package of measures on the 4th of May to revive Zimbabwe's beleaguered education system and get teachers and children back into classrooms, as schools are expected to reopen this week.