News: Education

The curriculum at Further Education and Training (FET) colleges need to change in order to contribute to the country's new economic path.

This year's Summer Work Program was effective thanks to the showering of good pattern of rains, stated Mr. Fitwi Woldegergis, head of the Program in the Education Ministry.

Six managers of primary schools in the central Mozambican province of Sofala have been sentenced to prison terms of between four and six years, according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique".

Les enfants de la plupart des nomades nigérians passent à travers les mailles du filet de l'éducation, car la priorité est donnée à l'enseignement du métier familial et leur mode de vie itinérant fait qu'ils vont rarement à l'école. Tandis que le nomadisme devient de moins en moins viable, les enseignants et les autorités gouvernementales trouvent cependant de nouveaux moyens d'y remédier.

The culture of students rioting which has reared its ugly head in a number of Senior High Schools in the Northern part of the country recently could worsen the already trying conditions many of them have to cope with and thereby affect education negatively and deepen the woes of the youth.

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), a civil society organization, has asked Government to take over the management of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute in the short term and have the proprietor removed from management. It believes that such a measure will create the right environment and secure the best interests of the children under the current circumstances.

For the past years, your reputed newspaper carried a number of articles of my fellow youth, comrades and indeed revolutionaries with the correct view. All these youth vigorously and consistently debated free tertiary education.

WORK to improve the status and effectiveness of SA's 50 state-funded further education and training (FET) colleges will mark a new high today when Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande kicks off a two-day conference aimed at repositioning the sector that is often referred to as the "Cinderella" of SA's education system.

All new schools being built by government should be accessible to children with disabilities, says Minister for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya.

Further Education and Training (FET) colleges must be radically overhauled so that they can become colleges of choice for school leavers while providing quality foundation programmes with particular focus on maths and science.

For the first time since the inception of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), 171,376 candidates have been promptly placed in second cycle schools.

A Liberian based in the United States, Mrs. Rosaline Kingston Bonsi, has expressed a pathetic condition surrounding the learning environment of Liberian students and has called partnership with already existing schools and orphanage homes to help them grow into more sustainable lives.

The Management of Firestone Liberia is expected to host a scholarship awards ceremony for deserving students who have been qualified to benefit from the company's Scholarship Program for the 2010/2011 academic year.

In a meeting held in Keren town, the head of the branch office of the Ministry of Education in Anseba region, Mr. Bokretsion Habtemichael, stressed the importance of the role of parents in promoting student capacity.

A Liberian educator, Mr. John Nester Randall says the government’s compulsory primary education was not making any impact on the life of many students. And this, he blamed it on the lack of creativity by the Ministry of Education (MOE).

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia has donated a consignment of text books to the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law of the University of Liberia.

The One Lap Top per Child (OLPC) programme, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, has set December as the deadline to have distributed 65,000 laptops to 150 primary schools across the country.

As we shop around the streets of Accra whether as housewives, government officials or tourists, it ought to dawn on us that on a daily basis and hour by hour and minute by minute we are glossing over a serious criminality.

The Angolan minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Maria Cândida Teixeira, considered Thursday in Luanda the Integrated Centre of Technological Training (Cinfotec) as a key partner in vocational training centred on technical

Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, a renowned Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan was yesterday named the next vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan.