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MALAWI: Malawi: Adamson Muula, "Are educational standards going down?"

BLANTYRE, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Malawi's education system (primary, secondary and tertiary) has experienced a number of changes and faced challenges prompting those concerned to ask whether standards are going down or not. The system has been overwhelmed since the United Democratic Front (UDF) government introduced free primary education, which meant recruiting additional teachers (at times untrained), building more secondary schools and hiring more lecturers.   Adamson...

Italian Co. to Supply Bole Airport Radar

A national committee led by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECA) finalized its evaluation of suppliers of primary and secondary surveillance radar, which is to be procured for Bole International Airport.

BANGLADESH: Hand-washing saves children's lives

DHAKA Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (IRIN) - More than 16 million children in 73,000 primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh will mark the first global hand-washing day on 15 October with a vow to keep themselves free of diarrhoea and pneumonia - two major killers of children spread mainly via dirty hands. "Children are the most powerful agents of change in society," said Carel de Rooy, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in Bangladesh. "If children learn basic hygiene education...

ANGOLA: Government pledges to provide better health care

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Angola's new government is promising better health facilities at both primary and secondary care levels, as well as to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS over the next four years. The oil- and diamond-rich nation went to the polls earlier this month and returned the ruling MPLA party to power with more than four-fifths of the votes, giving it 191 seats in the 220-member legislature. UNITA, the largest opposition party, only managed to garner 10...

Glory Baptist Primary Holds Speech and Prize-Giving Ceremony

The Gambia Glory Baptist Primary School in Jeshwang recently held its speech and prize-giving ceremony at the school campus. The school headmaster, Mr. Carnetiou Brempony, notified the gathering that it was a joyful day and a great day for him personally. As the school rejoiced in their 15th annual speech and prize-giving ceremony, the headmaster revealed that they wish to bring education to all Gambians. He also revealed that they are in the process of transforming the Gambia Glory Baptist...

Saint Joseph’s Rule Primary School Cricket

The 2007 league champions of the Primary School Cricket League, Saint Joseph’s Lower Basic School, has once again emerged winners of the Knockout competition for primary schools over the weekend. Organised by the Gambia Cricket Association, the final was played at the July 22nd Square between Saint Joseph’s and Albion Lower Basic Schools. Saint Joseph’s Lower basic School filled in a mixed team comprising three girls. The finals was played in the true “ spirit of the game” and very...

Primary School Cricket Knockout Tourney Reaches Final

A primary school Cricket tournament organised by The GambiaCricket Association for schools in Banjulis at its final stages. The six-team tournamentkicked off on the 13thof Juneand has featured St . Joseph’s, Wesley, St Mary’s, Albion,Campama, and JC Faye primary schools.Albion will meet Primary school league champions St Joseph in the final, scheduled for Friday, July 11,2008 at the July 22 Square in Banjul. Jonny Gomez, Vice President of The Gambia CricketAssociation, speaking to Pointsports,...

BURKINA FASO: School and books necessities not luxuries

The Burkina Faso government will distribute millions of free books to primary school students and launch a pilot project to give no-fee schooling in a push to curb the number of people in the country growing up without even basic education. “This is the end of the time when reading and maths textbooks are seen as luxury items for parents,” pledged Odile Bonkoungou, minister of basic education and literacy, on 27 August, launching the free books project. Some 10.5 million books for primary...

SENEGAL: Primary schools grapple with digital technology

In the poor fishing neighbourhood of Medina in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, a small school sits wedged between a run-down cemetery and a craft market. Piles of rubbish line a sandy alleyway that leads to the school’s front gate. The school walls are stained; desks are cracked and dusty. Yet among the dirt and disorder of one classroom, six shiny flat-screen computers line one side. They are seemingly out of place. At one computer ten-year-old Amadou Diallo is fighting off his classmates to...