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SOUTH Africa’s stock exchange has dropped an investigation into an insider trading claim made against the former chairman of private education firm Advtech following a takeover bid. The JSE said [...]

SALMAN KHAN SITS at the head of a conference table, surrounded by about a dozen children, talking about Hitler. It’s late June, nine months into the first year at Khan Lab School, Khan’s [...]

Free education in South Africa is a goal worth pursuing, especially for students who are poor and want access to tertiary institutions and those who correctly see it as a right and developmental [...]

South Africa should learn from Brazil, where the availability of higher education has been significantly boosted by a rapid growth in private higher education institutions, argues Ann Bernstein. [...]

It is school season in Cote d’Ivoire. Kids are excited. Parents are hopeful. It is the typical excitement and hope you could expect anywhere in the West. Except one thing: parents are concerned [...]

Reports about the deficiencies of primary and secondary education are released almost daily. The PISA test, for example, which quantitatively tests 15-years-olds in 65 countries, showed a [...]

Curro, which abandoned a takeover bid for smaller rival Advtech in July, will pay 180 million rand for Windhoek Gymnasium, an independent school in the capital of neighbouring Namibia. If [...]

PRIVATE education group Advtech on Thursday announced that it had concluded an R82m agreement to acquire Summit College from the Summit College Trust. Advtech, which is the owner of premium [...]

The U.K. government could be violating children’s right to education by funding for-profit schools in developing countries, according to international campaigners, who are trying to put a stop to [...]

>than 90% of shareholders at general meeting in favor of offer, co. says in e-mailed statement.   * Full terms, incl. price, ratio of entitlement, to be announced on or before Nov. 3. Source: [...]