Category : Education

AFP Dozens of Myanmar students began an unauthorised protest march in Myanmar’s second largest city Mandalay, vowing to restart their campaign against an education bill...

By ISMAIL KHANFEB.   The police are offering firearms instruction to schoolteachers and university lecturers since the Taliban massacred 150 people at a Peshawar school in...

A Pretoria school on Thursday denied claims of racial segregation and said their pupils attended integrated classrooms. “Regarding the allegations of racial segregation at Curro...

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN Established in 1829 as a school for boys, the University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa’s oldest university and one...

By John Churu, Gaborone, Botswana’s biggest university, the University of Botswana (UB) has been hamstrung by an IT problem that threatens to throw the institution...

PAUL STOKES,  THIS CONTENT WAS WRITTEN BY A STUDENT AND ASSESSED AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY DEGREE. E-IR PUBLISHES STUDENT ESSAYS & DISSERTATIONS TO ALLOW...

Dozens of children were caught in choking clouds of the chemical agent (AAP)  Kenyan police have fired tear gas at children protesting the seizure of...

“These images from Northern Nigeria should be searing the conscience of the world. “Some two thousand innocent children, women and elderly reportedly massacred in Baga....

Talks between the Teachers Service Union and Kuppet collapsed on Wednesday after the union rejected the government’s Sh9.3 billion offer on allowances, demanding Sh0.7 trillion...

Nampak teams up with school for sustainable food programme Sam Jermy   Plastic milk bottle specialist Nampak Plastics has joined with Ousedale School, Newport Pagnell, to take part...

A few of the children of Butembe, Uganda gather around Father Evan Armatas, president of the nonprofit St. Nektarios Education Fund. The Colorado organization is...

The management for the Jacaranda School for Orphans in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre recently hosted a party for its students as it closed for Christmas...

A newly-released UN report revealed that youth with post-secondary education living in middle and low-income countries have a much higher chance of finding a decent...

Nearly 70 schools in Cameroon’s Far North Region have been forced to close, are damaged, or operate intermittently as a result of the recurrent cross-border...

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has deplored the murder of Abdirisak Ali Abdi, a journalist killed in the...

MATT SCHIAVENZA Eduardo Munoz/Reuters The Oxford English Dictionary selected “vape” as its word of the year this year. If you’re not sure what “vape” means,...

                                AN educational partnership between Glasgow and Malawi has been...

With the nationwide closure of schools in Liberia and Sierra Leone due to the Ebola outbreak, and with no immediate prospect of them reopening, a...

Access to information in Africa is a fundamental obstacle to development. Africa’s youth population is increasing faster than any other region of the world. But...

Teaching in Kenya has never been less noble. The teacher, once an upstanding pillar of society and an admired role model, has been reduced to...