At least 27 children and several teachers have been abducted by gunmen at a boarding school in central Nigeria Niger state, local officials told AFP. AbdullberqyEbbo, director general of the strategic operation in Niger state,…
Education: Ministers to discuss school reopening terms
The Ministry of Education has said Cabinet is sitting on Monday to discuss conditions that the Ministry of Health and the Covid-19 taskforce have given for reopening schools. While receiving a donation of 4,000 litres…
95% of schools reopen in South Africa after…
South Africa reopened schools for pupils in certain grades after two and a half months of home-schooling to limit the spread of coronavirus. On Monday, about 95 per cent of schools had reopened. The government…
COVID-19: Schools reopen in South Africa
Children in South Africa began returning to classrooms on Monday as part of a gradual loosening of restrictions imposed under a months-long COVID-19 lockdown in the continent’s most industrialised nation. The re-opening of schools had…
Schools to reopen in September- Uhuru
The Education ministry has been directed to prepare for reopening of schools beginning September subsequently hinting on the postponement of KCPE and KCSE exams. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said the reopening will be gradual…
South Africa delays school reopening by a week,…
Some parents in South Africa held up placards to protest outside a school in Cape Town on Monday. They are demanding the educational institutions remain closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Reopening of schools has been…
Education: Pupils ‘may not return to school on…
Angie Motshekga is facing an uphill battle to make her ‘back to school’ plan stick, after unions and educational activists cranked up the pressure on the embattled education minister. Earlier this month, Motshekga revealed that…
Education: The Cost Of Reopening Our Schools In…
The outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic which led to lockdowns, emergency health and food crisis, loss of lives amongst other things has crippled economies across the globe. The education sector is a major area the…
Coronavirus plans for SA schools revealed
South Africa’s Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has detailed some of her department’s plans to provide personal protective equipment to learners. Motshekga announced last week that the country’s schools would reopen for Grade 7…
Education: 2,500 schools closed in Burkina Faso due…
Increase in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso since 2017 has led to the closure of more than 2,000 schools, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday. Citing the Ministry of Education, the report…
Nigeria: Iwo deserves College of Education
An afterthought indeed it is for any official to feign ignorance of the location of the Federal College of Education at Iwo when all the six letters were signed on the same date for each…
Nigeria: NAPPS suggests phased reopening of schools
Private school owners in the country under the aegis of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, have called on the Federal Government to embark on a gradual reopening of schools in the…
South Africa: Motshekga to address the nation about…
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is expected to announce this week when schools will officially reopen. After consultations with various stakeholders, Motshekga has promised to brief the nation on Thursday, her department said in a…
Zimbabwe: Harare Schools, Colleges Turned Into Coronavirus Quarantine…
Several schools and colleges in Harare have been turned into isolation centres to hold hundreds of Zimbabweans who are returning from neighbouring countries and further afield. Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour…
Uganda:MAK set to ascertain reason of secondary school…
The population survey consisted of early graduates over the past decade, current students, parents and legal guardians, council leaders (LC1), teachers, school leaders, and district staff in some regions. Despite these efforts, dropout rates in…
Uganda: Education Minister’s announces dates for reopening schools…
Minister for Education and Sport, Janet Kataaha Museveni has said that if everything goes according to plan, the schools will open again later this month. On March 18, President Museveni ordered all schools in the…
Coronavirus: KZN victim was a teacher, several more…
Several people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus in KwaZulu-Natal after coming into contact with a 45-year-old teacher who died of Covid-19. The teacher, from Platt Drive Primary in Isipingo, south of Durban, died on…
Nigeria:Gov. Abdulrazaq appoints New KWASU VC
Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara has approved the appointment of Prof. Mustapha Mohammed-Akanbi as substantive Vice Chancellor of the State University, Malete. Hajia, Sa’adatu Modibbo the state’s Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, said…
ASUU insists on indefinite strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Wednesday maintained that it will not suspend its ongoing strike until the Federal Government honours its agreements with the union. This was disclosed by Dr Ezekiel Agbalagba,…
