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The Senate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State will today confer an honourary doctorate degree on Chief (Dr) Chidi Anyaegbu, chairman, Chisco Group of Companies.
Sixty universities from 17 countries in the West African sub region have indicated interests to participate in the 3rd West African Universities Games' Football and Hockey Championships.
Former Delta State governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, will today deliver the Founder's Day lecture at the University of Benin.
The Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) recently announced that starting January 2010, it will introduce five new Masters degree Programmes.
University of Benin may be enmeshed in another round of crisis as there were fears that the process of appointing a substantive Vice-Chancellor for the university may yet be truncated, even with a new Governing Council recently constituted for the university.
A Canadian donor was at the weekend temporarily barred from visiting a primary school in Misungwi District in Mwanza Region.
The Rector of the National University of Rwanda (NUR), Prof. Silas Lwakabamba over the weekend urged students to effectively utilise the available education resources to guarantee their future participation in national development.
Human Network Help Rwanda (HNHR), a local NGO has launched a new project to help orphans facing shortages on scholastic materials.
Representative democracy is a system of government where citizens participate in the government by electing public officials.
Aga Khan Foundation has launched a project to improve learning and influence teachers to deliver literacy and numeracy curriculum in 49 primary schools in Dokolo and Amolatar districts.
It was a graduation of Men and women who have been called as pastors and evangelists and by the ceremony, they were being sent out to transform lives of men and women through the power of God so that they can be useful and good citizens of the nation. It was therefore an occasion of great joy as friends and family members from around Lagos State and beyond came together to witness the 51st ...
Today marks the start of a 10-day door-to-door campaign to educate Gauteng communities about HIV and AIDS.
Lecturers at Makerere University have rejected a 2.8 per cent salary increase insisting they want the entire five per cent government promised in the national budget.
The continued planting of tea in Kyenjojo has affected the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme, according to district officials. A public dialogue last week revealed that most pupils dodge class to go and work in the fields.
The FCT Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigeria Students has criticized the recent closure of secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory for seven days in order to accommodate participants for the 2009 Abuja Carnival in the schools' hostels.
FOR those who had no opportunity to obtain the basic education in the four walls of the class room due to lack of finances in their youthful days, the free and compulsory education policy introduced by Governor Godswill Akpabio-led administration in Akwa Ibom state has been a big relief. Hence, not even age nor sight can deter them from maximizing such opportunity to enrol in any public primary ...
Dr. Elijah Mushemeza, the former Political Science lecturer at Makerere University, and now an Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Business and Development Studies at Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, is planning to unseat NRM heavyweight, Amama Mbabazi, as the party's Secretary General.
Secondary school head teachers have rejected two simpler subjects introduced by the government this year.
CAN you imagine an industry in which the workers who laboriously produce the product are paid by the public purse, those that painstakingly review the quality of the product are also paid by the public purse, and then the product is sold by a private company back to public institutions at a huge profit?
SA's first low-cost tertiary education institution, Johannesburg's Cida City Campus, has suspended its year-long foundation programme for next year, registrar Mburu Gitonga confirmed last week.
THE African Manzi Centre (AFMAC) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have embarked on a project aimed at promoting the provision of safe and clean drinking water in schools.
Top managers of Rwanda's Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system are attending a planning workshop during which they are expected to come up with a revised strategic and activity plan for the next five years.
ZIMPAPERS employees should take education seriously for the benefit of the company, the printing and publishing firm's chief executive officer Mr Justin Mutasa has said.
President Mugabe yesterday capped 1 311 Zimbabwe Open University graduates at a colourful ceremony attended by educationists, diplomats and senior Government officials.
The management of the Koforidua Hospital, in collaboration with the Nurses and Midwifery Association (NMA), has organised a five-day training workshop for its staff.
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