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In Liberia women follow in president’s footsteps
Four years after voters in Liberia, battered by decades of dictatorship, economic ruin and civil war, elected a no-nonsense former banker and UN official,...
US government contributes to primary education in northern Uganda
The United States Government, through the USAID/UNITY project, has
provided 115 motorcycles to Uganda.
The motorcycles are meant to benefit the Centre Coordinating Tutors in...
New IUCEA Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary
The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) has appointed Prof. Mayunga Habib Hemedi Nkunya from Tanzania to the post of the IUCEA Executive Secretary...
The University of Ottawa in Egypt
The University of Ottawa, together with the Faculty of Arts and the Canadian International College (CIC), announced that uOttawa will open a new academic...
Harvard University Professor Lawrence D. Bobo Elected to Joint Center Board of Governors
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, one of the nation's leading research and public policy institutions, today announced the election of Harvard...
U.S. Appellate Court to Rehear Disfranchisement Case
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State's racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people...
East African Community (EAC) adopts one laptop per child initiative
The East African Community today partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child...
James River Writers Announces the MAY 2010 WRITING SHOW – Can I Get a Witness: Writing for Social Change
Featuring:
Michael Paul Williams, journalist
Linda Beatrice Brown, novelist, playwright and poet
Emily Troutman, essayist and photojournalist
With your host, JRW Board member Maya Payne Smart
Thursday, May...
Voucher Support in Illinois Shatters Preconceptions
Demonstrating the power of grassroots action to drive solutions to persistent school failure in the city of Chicago, the Illinois State House of Representatives...
MassMutual, Strategic Financial Group, LLP Announces Scholarship Program For Local Multicultural College Students
Local multicultural college students from the metro area of Houston will have a chance to win scholarships and internship opportunities in the financial services...
ATLAS Maps a Strong Course for Children’s Education in Zambia
Today, children in the Mumbwa District of Zambia are no longer stuck in overcrowded classrooms with few learning materials. Thanks to the ATLAS program,...
Gates Millennium Scholars Program Announces New 1,000 Scholars For The Class of 2010
UNCF -- the United Negro College Fund -- today announced that the nation's largest minority scholarship program, the Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS), has...
Innovative Community College Leader to Receive National Award
An innovative educator who has improved teaching and learning throughout the community college movement nationwide, Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail will receive the 2010 National...
Intensive Two-Year Training Offered in Science Journalism
The World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) is offering intensive
two-year training in science journalism for journalists in Africa and the
Arab world. Training is available...
Zimbabwe: Chinamasa under fire for “ridiculous” comments
The legal fraternity in Zimbabwe has condemned Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa who claimed that “dismal and half baked’ lawyers are churned...
Students of Color Deserve Effective Teachers
High-quality teachers are the strongest influence on academic outcomes, including graduation, yet they are scarce in the high schools that serve the majority of...
Uganda: Landslide hit schools relocated to market-place
Over 1000 students who had stopped going to school, due to deadly landslides
that hit three eastern Uganda villages, have today resumed classes in
a market...
Oprah Winfrey: What changed the trajectory of her life
When Oprah Winfrey was 3 years old, her grandmother taught her to read. When Winfrey walked into a radio station at age 16, she...
Campaign for High School Equity Calls for ESEA That Ensures Success for All Students
The Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE), a civil rights coalition focused on high school reform, today told the House Early Childhood, Elementary and...
International Conference on Multi-Grade Education will develop policy and strategy to address teacher shortages and improve teaching and learning in rural and hard-to reach areas
In Africa and large parts of the developing world, about 50% of primary school children are in rural areas. These millions of rural...
Verizon Awards $300,000 Grant to Virginia’s Gloucester Institute
Institute to Use Verizon Foundation Grant to Expand Emerging Leaders Program Over Next Three Years in Partnership With Virginia's Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A...
The Fate of the Watchman in Ghana
The watchman’s job may be among the hardest hit in this era of technology, but for one 32 year old father of five, going...
No school fees policy challenges: Comparing the Kenyan and Malawian models
While the elimination of school fees is critical in helping achieve the right to education for all, addressing the challenges it poses is key...
Business tycoon, Dr Johann Rupert, invests in global education and development
Distinguished global business leader and entrepreneur, Dr Johann Rupert, has been appointed as the fourteenth Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), pledging his support to...
Dr Johann Rupert: A success story
Dr Johann Rupert can justly be regarded as a leader in numerous fields and an achiever of innumerable successes. This versatile fourteenth Chancellor of...
South Africa: Equal Education’s ‘Bookery’ Opens it’s doors in Cape Town
School libraries in South Africa are in a desperate state. Only 7.23 % of public schools have functional libraries; 13.47% have a library space...
‘Madagascar’s Education System Faces Meltdown’
The former President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, today highlighted
the precarious state of the country's education system, following swinging
budget cuts by the current unelected government...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s son inherits mother’s IQ?
President Robert Mugabe’s last born son, Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe flunked his 2009 Grade 7 examinations, it has emerged. Meanwhile, some observers have likened his...
Sudan: Local languages in schools to promote better understanding
With effect from the 2010 academic year, mother languages will be included in southern Sudan's school curricula.
Southern Sudan nationals have expressed satisfaction over the...
Côte d’Ivoire: Peace villages for little model citizens
Living in harmony and respecting the rules of democracy. Two thousand Ivorian children have put this into practice under the leadership of Mireille Critie...