AfricanBrains launches African Education Summit 2011
The African Education Summit is a landmark event to bring together the key stakeholders and institutions under one roof to face the challenges of maintaining...
Africa: More investment when leaders study overseas
African leaders who attend universities abroad attract more sustained foreign investment to their home countries than those locally trained, according to a study of...
South Africa: Nzimande outlines new skills strategy
Press briefing by the Minister of Higher Education and Training on the launch of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) III
13 Jan 2011
New National...
Tanzania: Mandela Science & Technology Institute to open in 2011
Arusha. The first phase of the Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha will be completed mid next year. Construction...
Kenya: Local Investor Buys Publishing Firm
UK publisher Macmillan has sold its Kenyan unit, marking the latest case of divestment from the local market by a foreign firm in the...
SOMALIA: Fighting for an education
NAIROBI, 12 January 2011 (IRIN) - Sometimes the teachers make it to school but the children do not - when the fighting is too...
Luanda: Minister Defends Need to Upgrade PE Teachers
Luanda – The national director of Sports, Raimundo Ricardo, Wednesday here defended the need for upgrading physical education teachers in order to grant that...
Liberia: Dr. Sawyer Calls For Education Summit
By: Keith Morris
The Chairman of the Governance Commission, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, wants a national education summit held in the country as soon as...
Africa Analysis: Taking stock of science policy in 2010
Linda Nordling charts the science policy trends of the past year — and looks ahead to a new 'decade for science'.
When 2010 dawned there...
MacArthur Foundation Awards $5m to Nigerian Universities
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded nearly US$5 million to academic centres at three Nigerian universities to prepare graduates to...
