Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
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2008-05-01
To ensure the right to a basic education, the Dakar Framework called upon governments to develop responsive, participatory and accountable systems of educational governance and management. Since then, the search for improved institutions better able ...
Zimbabwe: Schools in crisis as teachers flee rural violence
2008-05-01
An educational crisis has developed around the country with many schools suffering from a shortage of teachers, due to the current crackdown on suspected opposition supporters and officials. Our correspondent Simon Muchemwa said teachers are not retu...
Africa: Copyright and education in Africa: Launch of the ACA2K network
2008-05-02
As the global community marks World Intellectual Property Day 2008 (26 April), an eight-country African research network is being launched with a mandate to investigate the relationship between copyright and education in African countries. The networ...
Zimbabwe: Teachers suffer post-election violence
2008-05-02
Teachers have become the latest targets in Zimbabwe's post-election violence, in which abductions, intimidation and beatings have already left two dead. "We have received bad news. As we speak, two teachers have been killed - beaten to death," Wellin...
Uganda: Schoolchildren killed in dormitory fire
2008-04-18
An overnight fire that destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, killing 19 schoolgirls and two adults, may have been set deliberately, police said on Tuesday. "Preliminary investigations indicate that it was homicide," police Inspector General...
Mali: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets
2008-04-18
In 2000 the Malian government signed up to UN Education for All goals to help 50 percent more adults become literate by 2015, but eight years on still only 30 percent of Malian adults can read or write, and the government is yet to outline its strate...
Somalia: Schoolteachers killed in attack
2008-04-18
A British schoolteacher, her two female Kenyan colleagues and a Somali headmaster were killed in an overnight attack in central Somalia blamed on Islamist insurgents, witnesses said on Monday. The four were killed when suspected rebels attacked and b...
Sudan: School enrolment soars in the South
2008-04-04
Some 1.3 million children in southern Sudan are expected to start classes this year, compared to just 340,000 in 2005, thanks to an initiative supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to boost school enrolment and strengthen the educa...
Global: Beyond the ABCs: Higher education and developing countries
2008-04-04
This new CGD working paper analyzes an often neglected facet of development-higher education. While higher education was in vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, it subsequently fell out of favor. The various development paradigms, from basic needs to rural...
Kenya: Free secondary schooling policy faces testing times
2008-03-27
When Kenya's government introduced free primary schooling in 2003, vast numbers of additional pupils were brought into the education system overnight, putting it on a steep learning curve. A dearth of teachers, scarcity of textbooks and inadequate fa...
Zambia: UNICEF sends ‘schools-in-a-box’ to flood-hit regions
2008-03-21
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has dispatched 58 “schools-in-a-box” to flood-hit areas of Zambia to help pupils whose families have had to flee their homes because of rising waters or whose school buildings have been damaged or destroyed...
Kenya: Education amidst displacement
2008-03-21
With the new academic year in Kenya underway, teacher Moses Simiyu Kalenda is once again instructing children - just not in the place where he expected to be doing so. Previously, he taught pre-schoolers at Kalaha Farm, some 400 kilometres west of th...
Chad: A semblance of education for a displaced child
2008-03-14
Sitting on a plastic mat in an outdoor classroom at a site for people displaced by violence outside the town of Goz Beida in southeastern Chad, Ibrahim Abdoulaye Moussa has reason to pay attention in class. "I'm in school to save my country," said th...
Sudan: Hundreds of thousands of Darfur children not in school
2008-02-28
About 650,000 or half of all children in Darfur do not receive an education, despite efforts by various organisations to provide schooling in camps and towns across the western Sudanese region, an international NGO said."Education is the foundation f...
Nigeria: IAP plans integrity education for elementary schools
2008-02-27
In a strategic move to combat corruption and engage young Nigerians in the promotion of responsive and responsible governance, Independent Advocacy Project (IAP), the nation’s leading anti-corruption group is advocating that anti-corruption education...
Liberia: UNICEF to help rebuild devastated schools
2008-02-29
With only one third of Liberians reaching the fifth grade of school and children less likely to read than their parents, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced a $20 million programme to help rebuild the education syste...
North Africa: World Bank report: education progress needed in Maghreb
2008-02-15
A World Bank study issued last week says Arab countries must improve education to combat unemployment and close what it calls the "education gap" with other regions. Under the title, "The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and Nor...
Swaziland: School gates close on orphans
2008-02-08
Thamie Simelane, 12, is among hundreds of thousands of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Swaziland who might not be going to school, despite government assurances that the tuition fees of these children would be covered. Headmasters rely on sc...
Morocco: Government boosts vocational education programmes
2008-02-07
The Moroccan government plans a broad expansion of vocational education centres, job agencies and training partnerships with business professionals. The plan addresses the growing number of workers who do not fit the needs of the market and the probl...
Morocco: Unemployed graduates continue demanding public sector jobs
2008-02-07
Unemployed Moroccan graduates are keeping up their protest in a bid to be given public-sector jobs. After gathering outside the Istiqlal party headquarters, they were allowed to speak to a government committee, but for now, the situation remains unre...
Zimbabwe: Getting harder to keep children in school
2008-02-01
Alois Mufundisi, a media professional, earns 200 million Zimbabwean dollars, about 50 U.S. dollars on the thriving parallel market. On paper this amount appears huge, but in real terms it is just enough to buy essential foodstuffs for half a month. H...
Algeria: High school students protest new curriculum
2008-01-25
After widespread demonstrations on Saturday (January 19th), Algerian high school students called for a strike on January 27th over education reforms they claim are unreasonable. Prompted by a teachers' strike that paralysed schools on January 15th, t...
Nigeria: Classroom shortages threaten primary education targets
2008-01-18
The success of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme which aims to provide free education to every child in Nigeria caused the number of primary school leavers to more than double in 2007, creating a backlog that the secondary education syste...
Kenya: Report to nearest school, PC tells students
2008-01-11
The Government has asked parents displaced by the recent post-election violence to take their children to the nearest school from where they are camping. On Thursday, the Government also directed teachers and other staff displaced by the violence to ...
Swaziland: Urban youth slipping through the cracks
2008-01-11
As the new school year begins here many destitute or orphaned children are in need of assistance to pay for their educations. An unknown number of urban youngsters, however, are slipping through the social welfare net. "Impoverished children in the c...
Rwanda: Peace and reconciliation studies for universities
2008-01-11
Plans to begin teaching peace and reconciliation studies in universities are in the pipeline, an official at the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) has said. According to Frank Kobukyeye who is in charge of conflict management at the...
Africa: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
2007-12-19
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration:Unlocking the promise of open educational resources is a new effort to galvanize the Open Education movement to focus attention worldwide on the potential for Open Educational Resources for all learners and ed...
Africa: 1st Pan-African prize for entrepreneurial teachers
2007-12-20
From ‘Eco-Friendly Business Education’ to ‘Turning Waste into Gold’, full details of the winners of the 1st Pan African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers have now been officially announced. In addition to a top prize of $10,000, three winners were f...
Mauritius: Recognition of prior learning for adults
2007-12-20
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning ( UIL) collaborates with the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA) in launching a pilot project on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for unemployed workers from the sugar and textile sectors who will be...
Global: Good policy and practice in HIV & AIDS and education
2007-12-20
This booklet published by UNESCO's education sector is the first in a series of publications on good practice in responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on education. Aimed primarily at government, donor and NGO policymakers, planners and managers, ...
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