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Nigeria has one of world's highest numbers of out-of-school children, 13.2 million, according to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF). A wave of school kidnappings has worsened the situation, with some state authorities closing down boarding schools in th...
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March 3, 2021 Web Desk
Education, Literacy
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African scholarship is woefully underrepresented in prestigious global academic journals based in the US or Europe. This is particularly true in the field of management, which studies managers and organisations.As a result, global management knowledge ...
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February 19, 2020 Web Desk
Education, Literacy
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In Iran, several scholars, including France's Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal (Sciences Po) and Australia's Kylie Moore-Gilbert (University of Melbourne), have been detained under espionage charges. All deny the accusations, yet face several years i...
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February 19, 2020 Web Desk
Literacy
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WASHINGTON - As the death toll from the coronavirus continues to mount in China and elsewhere, thousands of African students in China count the hours hoping that their governments will evacuate them.Solomon Yohannes of Ethiopia, a third-year engineerin...
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February 11, 2020 Web Desk
Education, Literacy
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Zimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti, CEO of UK-based start-up Academy of Robotics (www.AcademyofRobotics.co.uk) has today published an open-source technology known as 'Trees of Knowledge' to improve access to education through smartphones in Africa. T...
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January 31, 2020 Web Desk
Education, Literacy
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