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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: [...]

The inability of the La­gos State Government to match growing demand for quality and affordable educa­tion with human resource and infrastructural development, is taking its toll on the state’s [...]

Cyril Nkontchou est un entrepreneur français spécialisé dans l’investissement en Afrique. D’origine camerounaise, arrivé en France à 13 ans, il a étudié à Sciences Po ainsi qu’à Harvard. Il [...]

Less than half of the world’s countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according to a United Nations report [...]