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Nigeria: Lagos Metro Project Rehabilitates Public Schools

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
The Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project (LMDGP) has moved to arrest the decay in the infrastructure of public schools in Lagos State by rehabilitating some of them.


Nigeria: NUC, JAMB Fault Illegal Courses in Varsities

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have condemned the inclusion of unapproved courses in the academic programmes of Nigeria universities. Both bodies said it was fraudulent for university authorities to allow such illegal

Nigeria: Principal Asked to Vacate His Office After Being Accused of Corruption by ACTU and Staff

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
An interesting drama is unfolding at the Federal Government College (FGC), Kiyawa, Jigawa State, where the school's Anti Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) and staff are accusing the outgoing Principal of corruption and asking him to vacate his office with

Zimbabwe: 'Revert to Last Term's Fees'

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Government has directed tertiary institutions to revert to last term's fees while the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education is working on a new fees structure.


South Africa: Place Education Before Narrow Political Contests

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
MEDIA attention has focused on the impending "dissolution" of the Scorpions. Highly placed individuals have joined clairvoyants in speculating about the future under Jacob Zuma.

Nigeria: ABU Alumni Launch N500m Development Fund

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Alumni Association has launched a N500 million naira development fund to renovate the Veterinary Medicine Complex and the Kassim Ibrahim Library.

Nigeria: NBTE Boss Decries Dearth of Technical Teachers

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Dr. Nuru Yakubu has expressed concern over the dearth of technical teachers in the country, saying that unless urgent steps are taken to redress the shortfall, the nation stands the

Nigeria: Don Advocates Education

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Director of the Nigeria French Language Village (NFLV) Badagry, Prof. Samuel Aje has stressed the need to educate and develop persons with special needs in the society.

Africa: Maputo Hosts 2008 Biennial On Education in Continent

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, is to host the Biennial on Education in Africa, scheduled to hold from May 5 to 9. The Biennial is the most important meeting in Africa in the field of educational cooperation, organised every two

Nigeria: UNICAL Gets Afrihub ICT Centre

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
The University of Calabar (UNICAL), last weekend became the first Federal institution in the South-South to launch a functional and befitting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Resource Centre, a liaison between AfriHub and Zinox Technologies.

Nigeria: Cowbell - Students Counseled On Mystification of Mathematics

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Promasidor Nigeria, organiser of the annual Cowbell National Mathematics Secondary Schools Competition (NASSMAC), may well be realising on of its aims, which is to demystify Mathematics, as comments from the candidates at this year's final competition show.

Nigeria: When States Cheat Their Children

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
As leaders all over the world continue to recognise the imperative of education as a fundamental human right and also put measures in place to ensure the attainment of the Education For All (EFA) goals, agreed in Dakar, Senegal in

Nigeria: Babcock Varsity Launches Fund for Medical School

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State is launching a $250 million capital campaign, to be unveiled at the Civic Centre, Lagos, on May 1. Chief among the projects to be undertaken from the fund is its Postgraduate College of Health and

Namibia: Nanso to Celebrate Historic Strike

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
This year exactly twenty years ago thousands of Namibian students made history when they successfully participated in a nation-wide strike against the South African apartheid regime.

Namibia: Two Receive PhDs From Unam

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Two candidates Niikondo Andrew and Likando Gilbert were conferred doctorates at the University of Namibia graduation this year.

Angola: Literature to Be Studied At U.S. Kean University

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Angolan literature will be studied at the U.S. New Jersey Kean University announced over the weekend a lecturer with this institution, Joao Augusto Camacho.

Kenya: Varsities Top Business School Rankings

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Deans from 1,000 universities worldwide have voted University of Nairobi, Strathmore Business School and the United States International University-Kenya as the best business schools in Kenya and in the East African region.

Nigeria: Kwara Tertiary Institutions Staff Call Off Strike

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Academic and Non-Academic staff of the four tertiary institutions in Kwara State have called off their four-week industrial action, following the intervention of the federal government. The institutions are, The State Polytechnic, Ilorin and Colleges of Education Ilorin, Oro and

South Africa: Western Cape Making Progress in Literacy Skills

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
While Grade 6 learners in the Western Cape are making steady progress in improving their literacy skills, Maths still remains a huge challenge, according to latest study by the provincial Education Department.

Nigeria: Commission Directs Demolition of Students' Hostel

23.04.2008 13:36    allafrica.com
Kano State Commissioner of Projects Monitoring and Evaluation, Alhaji Ibrahim Garba has ordered for the Immediate demolition of a one-storey students' hostel at Government Secondary School, Rano.

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