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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 [...]

Reacting to today’s UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2015: Education for All 2000-2015: Achievements and challenges, Oxfam education expert Sandra Dworack says: “The fact that the [...]

Multichoice has announced the introduction of Multichoice Resource Centres in Kenyan public secondary schools in a bid to enhance education through technology. The resource centres will provide [...]

South Africa is a nation facing an education crisis. Year after year, we discuss the negative analyses of our matric results and our performance compared with other nations. In 2014 our education [...]