Opinion: We must support the establishment of universities of excellence in Africa

Only five African universities are in the top 500 of the Shanghai Ranking 2014, including four South Africa and Egypt. Africa therefore still suffers from a severe shortage of universities of [...]

South Africa’s private school firm Curro Holding’s said on Monday it has raised 740 million rand ($62 million) in a fully-subscribed rights offer to pay for new schools. There has [...]

Intel, for the second year running, is the diamond sponsor for the upcoming SABC Education African EduWeek. The annual conference, now in its ninth year, is back from 1-2 July at the Gallagher [...]

All children enrolling for Standard One in 2017 will have an option to study the Chinese language. The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development ( KICD) also projects that the language will be [...]

KELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka GOVERNMENT is aware that many private schools are engaging unqualified teachers and in some cases school-leavers to handle early childhood education. And the South African [...]

Teaching unions and global justice NGOs have come together today to lobby the world’s largest education company Pearson to stop “turning its back on free public education for all”. Heads of the [...]

MTN Rwanda has partnered with 21 schools from across the country to enable parents pay school fees using the telecom’s mobile money platform. Norman Munyampundu, the MTN general manager for [...]

Sierra Leone wants to run classes six days a week to allow students to catch up after schools were closed for nine months because of Ebola. The day will be longer for the new schedule that runs [...]

The Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Mr Enver Surty, has committed himself to intervene in the review of a school’s quintile level and the provision of scholar transport for learners in [...]

The returns on higher education are growing globally and they are highest in Africa, Claudia Costin, a senior director at the World Bank, told the African Higher Education Summit. There is an [...]