Jackee Budesta Batanda is a communications officer at of Refugee Law Project. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Lancaster University, England, and Peace Writer at the University of San Diego, California. Her short stories have been short listed for the Macmillan

A book on Aids and violence against Namibian women and children was launched at the Katutura Community Arts Centre on Tuesday evening.

In her first moments with the reader, Oge is seated on a train, moving cautiously towards its destination, with passengers moving in and out of stale railway carriage seats, entering and exiting anonymously with each passing station.

The National Institute for Religious Matters (INAR) will release on 21 May a book entitled "Religion and Study", ANGOP learnt Friday here from the INAR's director, Fátima Vieiga.

A landmark pilot project was launched with the clinching of a multi-partnered deal to provide truck driver training for unemployed men on the side of primarily Windhoek's roads.

Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, yesterday said universities in Nigeria lack the needed qualified manpower to steer the academic system to a level where they could produce quality graduates.

I AM of the class that entered the University of Namibia in 1993 with a lot of reservations about the quality of higher education I was about to receive at this institution.

The management of Ahafo project of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited has organised a quiz competition on malaria prevention for four Senior High Schools in its operational area at Kenyasi to commemorate this year's celebration of World Malaria day.

Kwara State Commis-sioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, has said the desire of the state to establish a state-owned university is to produce graduates that would be able to compete for global job opportunities.

Pupils in rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal have been encouraged to study computer science and technology to ensure more engineers and computer technicians are produced by the province.

The higher education sector has received an additional R246 910 million to improve access and quality to education for the 2008/09 financial year.

Finish Refugee Council (FRC) yesterday commenced a week-long intensive training for its partners in Koinadugu district north of Sierra Leone.

The present grant are attributed to students from various state universities in Cameroon. The operation started in January 2008.

THE MATOPOS Research station has started a massive indigenous drought resistant cattle and goat breeding programme to assist small holder farmers boost herds in some parts of the dry Matabeleland region.

Secondhand booksellers in Cape Town were shocked when they were told this week they had to fork out R1 000 for not having a secondhand goods trading licence.

A literature collection of 120 books by twelve Angolan writers was presented Wednesday in Huambo City by the Angolan National Insurance Company (ENSA), as part of the firm's 30th anniversary celebration.

The Bookfair was established in 2002, to, among other, objectives bring books closer to the people for better education and self-development, inculcate in the young generation of Nigerians necessary readership and authorship skills for a wholesome book society and to

The development and survival of any society largely depends on the quality of human capital available to such society at any given time.

National Universities Commission (NUC) has given approval for the establishment of a specialized university to be called University of Science and Technology, in Okitipupa, Ondo State.

Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has reiterated the determination of his administration to ensure that education is accorded its right of place as a major catalyst for the socio- economic and technological development of the society.