Category : Education

  Religion and education; the two cultural institutions that stir the passions of every South African. So when the Johannesburg High Court ruled that schools...

The United Nations Children’s Fund says violence by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has forced more than one million children out of school in...

Cairo : Two bombs exploded outside a hotel in Egypt housing election judges on Tuesday, killing at least one person, state television reported. The blasts...

Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Arts School’s students during their training. (Photo: Nourhan Tewfik) Since its onset in 2012, the Darb Al-Ahmar Arts School (DAAS) — located in...

. By Ryan Lenora Brown, Correspondent  After more than a week of intensive protests that shuttered every major public university in South Africa, student activists...

Less than half of the world’s countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according...

Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare a Ghanaian law professor based in Florida in the United States has taken the General Legal Council (GLC) to the Supreme...

The High Court yesterday declined to stop the prosecution of three secondary school teachers accused of assaulting a student. The Nairobi School teachers allegedly assaulted...

Less than half of the world’s countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according...

  Students at Ebubu Community Secondary School hold a banner during a ceremony to celebrate renovation of its library in Eleme, southern Nigeria in May....

By Sylvia Westall Conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from attending school, leaving their hopes and...

Every school that signs up for the Engage eLearning solution with Snapplify, one of Africa’s largest eBook aggregators and an eLearning platform providers, will receive...

The Chinese government has this year offered scholarships to 67 Kenyan students for further studies in various disciplines like engineering, finance and environmental science. Chinese...

All 54 learners who were admitted to hospital after a fire broke out at the North West Secondary School for the Deaf in Leeudoringstad near...

MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images  by MARY CHASTAIN Egyptian Education Minister Moheb Al-Refaei over the weekend decried the Islamic hijab worn by girls as “unacceptable,” leading to...

Book lovers at the library in Nairobi August 10, 2015 BY IBRAHIM ORUKO Did you know about Classifieds, the one-stop shop for services and items...

Monday 3 August 2015 – 21:20 Larbi Arbaoui Dedicated free-lance journalist with three years of experience as a news correspondent, translator, and editor. Larbi has...

Six Nigerian students who were arrested by police for allegedly assaulting a BMTC bus conductor in Bengaluru on Friday. (Photo: Shashidhar B.) Bengaluru: The six...

Namir Galal  A joint declaration between Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, was signed in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Monday to strengthen the cooperation between the...

Egypt has won a two-year seat on the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)’s executive council from 2015 to 2017, state news agency MENA has reported. The...