The Ugandan education system isn’t very different from the footballing sphere. Both have academies and there’s a tendency towards hooliganism. However, we shall concentrate on the similarity in the hierarchical structure. Ugandan schools, at least at the secondary level, can be classed into three categories. There’s the oldest of the schools (usually church founded or […]
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The Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Kenya government gave a directive to St. Mary’s Shohome Girls High School in Kakamega to register 16 pregnant girls to sit for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations. This follows allegations that the girls in question had been denied the right to register by the school […]
In the latest release from Times Higher Education, the most prestigious Universities in the World are in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The ranking is based on results from an invitation-only opinion survey of 10,000 top scholars around the world. The United States wins eight spots in the top 10, with […]
Following their conquest of Raqqa and selected regions of Syria, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) set out to impart their values on the residents under their leadership. The changes range from social, educational to cultural, and have been implemented through coercion and compulsion, and at other times enticed people through its interpretations of Islam. […]
Kenya’s Jubilee administration (Uhuru Kenyatta’s coalition government) released their final budget, ahead of next year’s general election. Of the Kenya shillings 2 trillion (UGX 66 trillion) budget, shillings 124.4 billion (UGX 4.1 trillion) has been allocated to education. This amounts to 6.22 percent of the national budget. The allocation breakdown is as follows; Kshs32 billion […]
Two University students are taking action against the poverty affecting young people in their home country. Langmia “Lang” Fojoe and Junior Doh created the ROC Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance foryoung people at two local secondary schools in Bali Nyonga, their native village in Cameroon. Today, Fonjoe and Doh are Ozanam Scholars at St. […]
Close to 75 million children, in the school-going age bracket, are in desperate need of educational support. In a report published by The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) it’s further stated that 25% of children in the age bracket of 3-18 years old live in countries affected by humanitarian crises. The number adds up […]
A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience revealed ways to observe brain activity during “natural reading,” the reading of actual texts and not words. Joseph Henderson, a professor of psychology at the University of California Davis, said “It’s a key advance in understanding reading in the brain, because people are just reading normally.” Researchers […]
In January this year, the government of Liberia made public a radical plan to outsource the running of all the government owned primary schools to a private company. George Warner, the country’s education minister announced that the for-profit Bridge International Academies will take over both the pre-Primary and Primary education systems. In return the government […]
Professor Abiodun Alao will deliver a professional inaugural lecture at King’s College, London today. The event will mark the first time a black African scholar is delivering a public lecture at the institution. Professor Alao is a researcher at the King’s College’s African Leadership Centre, specializing in African Studies. He’ll share the stage with his […]