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Africa: Volunteers Provide Lifeline to Researchers

14.05.2008 22:18    allafrica.com
Time and again, "citizen scientists" - members of the public who voluntarily help scientific studies - have made a real difference to research, for example by meticulously collecting data.


Angola: Higher Military Institute Opens Thursday

14.05.2008 20:52    allafrica.com
The Higher Technical Military Institute (ISTM), belonging to the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), situated in Luanda's Grafanil Military Camp, will be inaugurated on Thursday.

Uganda: Food Concerns Grow in Karamoja

14.05.2008 20:52    allafrica.com
Home to about 1.1 million people, Karamoja in northeastern Uganda is a harsh, semi-arid region largely inhabited by agro-pastoralists, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, and the lowest life expectancy.

Africa: Only the Cover is Green

14.05.2008 17:29    allafrica.com
Notice how green the public relations campaigns of multinational corporations have become.

Kenya: Secondary Schools in Cash Flow Crisis

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
Secondary schools are facing a serious cash flow crisis arising from confusion in free secondary education funding.

Zimbabwe: Cut in Project to Reverse Brain Drain

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
CHINHOYI University of Technology has been selected among five universities in Africa to spearhead a project designed to reverse the effects of brain drain on the continent under the Unesco-initiated "Pilot Solutions for Reversing Brain Drain into Brain Gain for

Nigeria: Lagos Business School Makes Global 50 Again

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
For the second consecutive year, the Financial Times of London has ranked the Lagos Business School (LBS) among the top 50 business schools worldwide, in the area of Open Enrolment Executive Education Programmes.

Nigeria: Parents Tasked On Proper Child Training

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
Parents need to pay positive attention to the input coming into the lives of their children and also seek to build good habits in them, the Director Redfield College, Sydney, Mr. Andrew Mullins has said.

Nigeria: JAMB Bars Candidates From Using Communication Gadgets in Exam Halls

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said any candidate caught using mobile phones or any other communication gadgets at the forth coming University Matriculation Examination (UME) would be charged with exam malpractices and handed over to the police.

Nigeria: Muslims Challenged On Education

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
Muslims in the country have been called upon to brace up for the education of their children, to enable them contribute to the much desired socio-economic development of the country.

South Africa: A New Skill for the Teaching Mamas

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
At the core of the Clover Mama Afrika Corporate Social Investment (CSI) project is the development and empowerment of people. The latest skill that the Mamas acquired is the creation of visual teaching aids. Tony Lamberti of Craft-Ed's Live &

Nigeria: UBEC Cautions States Against Collapse of Education

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
State governments and various State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB), have been warned of the dangers in allowing education to collapse in the country.

Gambia: UTG Scores 12 Diplomas in LCM

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
Twelve distinctions have been registered by a number of students at the University of The Gambia's (UTG) Economics and Management Sciences Department in the external examination in diploma nd higher diploma in sales and marketing, administered by the London Centre

Nigeria: Women Academics Demand Equality in Education Management

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
The under representation of women in the management of higher educational institutions in Nigeria was the focus of a round table organised by Accessure Educational, an advocacy group on education, in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Lagos, recently. Uchechukwu Nnaike reports

Nigeria: Builders Ministry Rewards Excellence

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
They are not often remembered. With the poor quality of teaching and learning, as well as the environment where these take place, many are wont to ask the biblical question, 'can anything good come out of Nazareth ?' But an

Namibia: Cholera Shuts Kunene School

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
GOVERNMENT has temporarily closed the Okanguati Combined School near Opuwo for an indefinite period after two teachers and a pupil contracted cholera.

Namibia: 'Namlish Will Be Our Downfall'

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
TEACHERS' proficiency in English has been identified as the major contributing factor to poor school performance in the northern regions, especially Oshana.

Nigeria: Why Exam Malpractice Cases Soar

14.05.2008 16:04    allafrica.com
Examination malpractices by students in the country have continued to soar due to the educational system, which still retains the colonial heritage that stresses the pursuit of white collar jobs. Students are therefore desperate in their quest for certificates for

Nigeria: Wesley Varsity Opens Today

14.05.2008 11:18    allafrica.com
People from all walks of life are expected to converge in the ancient town of Ondo , today, as they join the congregation of the Methodist Church of Nigeria and the Management of Wesley University of Science and Technology, Ondo

Nigeria: Builders Ministry Cont'd From PG. 76

14.05.2008 11:18    allafrica.com
For excelling in last year's West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE), no fewer than 200 students from public secondary schools in Lagos State have been rewarded by Divine Builders Ministry, at its 7th annual 'The Builders Youth Forum' (TBYF)

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