EAST African Community members want to harmonise the education syllabus and curriculum at all levels in the region, the first premier and minister for East African Community Affairs (EAC), Eriya Kategaya has said.
The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Yu Wenzhe, has made it known that the government of China is ready to offer scholarships and training programmes to Ghanaians who wants to study medicine in China. This study abroad programme, according to him, will help to reduce malaria and improve the living standards of Ghanaians
As the world marked the International Day on Climate Action on October 24, the issue of climate change has assumed a larger dimension. With the Climate Summit coming up in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the International Conference on Carbon Credit Opportunities in Abuja on November 9-11, Abimbola Akosile examines a scenario, which has a lot of potential for Nigeria
One of the men in police custody over cheating in the current Form Four examinations was a government spy, Saturday Nation can reveal. A police investigation shows the man used to work for the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) as a secret informer on examination irregularities.
For the past two weeks, media reports have isolated cases of irregularity in the current Form Four examinations. Curiously, the Kenya National Examinations Council has resorted to denials even when there was evidence that something was going wrong.
Members of the Takoradi Polytechnic chapter of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), on Tuesday embarked on a sit-down strike action, leaving all class rooms at the Polytechnic virtually empty.
The Secretary General of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa, Dr. George Afeti, says one of the constraints militating against the objectives of Senior High School (SHS) education, was the obsession within the country's educational system to the extent that all teaching and learning are geared towards passing examinations, rather than building a learning society.
Smuggling notes into exam rooms or scratching them on the skin used to be the customary ways of cheating in tests. Some candidates would leave notes in the toilets and would walk out and take a peek before returning to the exam room to reproduce them.
Learning was on Friday paralysed in most schools in Marakwet after teachers took to the streets to protest over the degazettement of the region as a hardship area.
Kenya is set to have 13 more public universities, President Kibaki announced on Friday. This will increase the number of public universities to 20, resulting in a huge rise in the number of students being admitted for degree courses.
Officials are acquainting themselves with modern techniques of establishing education partnership in a five-day workshop in Kribi in the South Region.
South African universities are being forced to play an "ambulance service" to black students, according to the former UCT vice-chancellor, Mamphela Ramphele.
The Vice President, John D. Mahama, while addressing a graduation ceremony of the Central University College over the weekend, announced Government's intention to hold a national stakeholder conference on education to deliberate on measures to be adopted for the betterment of the sector.
New Abrim scored 60, Gomoa 25, Mfantsiman, 30 and so on... But wait a minute there is something more similar to these numbers; apart from they being double digits, they are numbers of basic school girls who were found to be pregnant during this year's BECE.
Dr. Samuel Kwesi Asiedu-Addo, who stirred a controversy earlier in the year by insisting on a dress code for students of his department at the University of Education, Winneba, has been awarded by the university as best lecturer in the sciences.
