Tanzania’s higher education institutions have continued to score poorly in international major ranking surveys, with stakeholders noting financial limitations and a lack of publications in globally recognized journals as some of the main reasons. The University of Dar es Salaam, […]
The administration of Kisii University has sent home all second-year students following unrest at the institution’s main campus on Tuesday, October 12, over fee increment.In a memo signed by the University Acting Registrar Academic Affairs, Dr Joash Kerongo on Tuesday […]
The Rwandan government has announced that more than 60,000 students will have to re-sit classes for their current school year because of poor national exam results. More than 44,000 of the pupils had sat their primary school leaving tests. The […]
Seventy-five percent of students who took the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations passed. The executive secretary of the Uganda Business and Technical Examination Board (Ubteb), Mr Onesmus Oyesigye, announced the results at their headquarters in Ntinda, Kampala, on Friday. He […]
Security authorities in Uganda have detained Lawrence Muganga, one of the country’s finest professors, on suspicion of espionage, the military said. The vice-chancellor of the private Victoria University was kidnapped in broad daylight on Thursday at the facility’s main building […]
Rwanda will host dozens of schoolgirls being relocated from Afghanistan following the takeover of their country by Taliban militants. Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of a privately-run School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) on Tuesday said about 250 students, staff and family […]
Officially, a new center for Laboratory was inaugurated in Yambio to empower youth and school-going children to gain practical knowledge of science subjects, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The new center known as STEM Power Organization was inaugurated at the compound […]
Numerous private schools are concerned about the growing exodus of international students as a consequence of the extended school closures caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. Unlike in Uganda, where schools remain closed due to the second COVID-19 wave, schools in […]
Governments, companies, and philanthropists are being urged to spend more than $5 billion (£3.5 billion) in the future of children at a global education conference in London sponsored by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. This […]
Tong Akeen Ngor, governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, met with all his county commissioners on Tuesday to discuss funding opportunities for the University of Northern Bahr el Ghazal. Since 2019, the government has been conducting fundraising efforts across […]
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