[Efa] UNESCO/Nairobi: Monthly News Roundup Education and HIV/AIDS in the press - August 2007

Mon Sep 3 12:15:15 EAT 2007

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Kenya

Aga Khan launches campus for model school at Coast
A multi-million shilling residential campus was inaugurated at the Aga Khan
Academy in Mombasa yesterday. 
>>Source: Daily Nation 15th August 2007                          
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Group wants tertiary level fees scrapped
Children with disabilities should be educated from pre-school to tertiary
level for free beginning next year, a new report proposes. .. 
>>Source: Daily Nation 21st August 2007                             
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170,000 teachers to take courses in special education
More than 170,000 primary school teachers will undergo in service training
on special education if new proposals by a Government human right.. 
>>Source: Daily Nation 20th August 2007                         
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Tanzania

Education gate not wholly shut for female children
Education is orchestrated as ``the key to success`` and ``the gateway to a
decent livelihood``. But for quite many children, education is elusive
because... 
>>Source: IPP media 6 th July 2007

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Arusha to host second Aga Khan university
The spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslim community, His Highness
Karim Aga Khan IV, has said he is planning to build a second university in
Tanzania . 
>>Source: IPP media 17 th August 2007                         
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Sec school streams to increase to eight from four
The government yesterday announced new plans to introduce more streams in
secondary schools in a strategic drive to accommodate increasing number of
passed Standard Seven pupils. 
>>Source: IPP media 23rd August 2007                                  
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Sixteen win Ford Foundation scholarships
The Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in collaboration with the
International Fellowships Programme (IFP) of the US-based Ford Foundation
has endorsed sixteen people for scholarship awards to pursue further
studies... 
>>Source: IPP media 23rd August 2007                              
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Aga Khan launches academy
The Aga Khan Development Network is to set up an international academy worth
$50m (about sh87b) in Munyonyo, a Kampala surburb. 
>>Source: IPP media 23rd August 2007                                
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Uganda

Displaced school gets classrooms
LELA-OBARO Primary School is one of the schools displaced by the LRA
insurgency in the north. It moved from its original site to Palenga Primary
School in Bobi sub-county, Omoro county in Gulu district. 
>>Source: New Vision 17th August 2007                    
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Orphans and war-affected to get school
THE Bethel Christian School project, based in America , will construct a
learning centre for orphans and war-affected children. 
>>Source: New Vision 17 th August 2007                           
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10 pupils win Monitor trip to South Africa
TEN primary school pupils have won a six-day trip to South Africa courtesy
of Daily Monitor's Newspapers in Education project. 
>>Source: Daily Monitor 17th August 2007                      
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ADB funds Kaliro school
KALIRO-The African Development Bank has donated sh400m for building four
classroom blocks at Namugongo Seed Secondary School . The headmaster,
William Wabusela, said construction would begin in September. 
>>Source: New Vision 16th August 2007                       
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Uganda : Japan Offers Shs3.5b for Health, Education
THE Japanese government has donated $205, 000 (about Shs3.5b) for health,
safe water and educational improvement projects in Luweero, Mpigi and
Bushenyi districts. 
>>Source: Daily Monitor 14th August 2007                  
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Uganda : 31 Scoop British Council Scholarships
The British Council has granted scholarships to 31 Ugandans to study in
different universities in the UK . Some of the beneficiaries are enlisted
under the Commonwealth Fellows while others will be on work attachment in
Britain . 
>>Source: Daily Monitor 14th August 2007                     
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iew&id=2302&Itemid=127> 

Stanbic, New Vision donate books to Rukungiri schools
STANBIC Bank and The New Vision have donated Primary Leaving Examination
textbooks to boost academic performance in three schools in Rukungiri
district. 
>>Source: New Vision 20th August 2007                        
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USE gets sh10b boost
The Government has earmarked sh10b to enhance the Universal Secondary
Education programme (USE). The Commissioner in the Ministry of Education,
Yusuf Nsubuga, said about 3,000 grade five teachers and 1,000 graduate
teachers would be recruited in September to solve the problem of inadequate
staff. 
>>Source: New Vision 24th August 2007                           
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Kenya

PS unveils plan on drafting of Aids policy
The Government has embarked on a programme to develop a workplace policy on
HIV and Aids. 
>>Source: Daily Nation 6 th July 2007                              
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University sets up fund for needy students and staff
Egerton University has introduced a Sh7 million endowment fund to support
university studies of needy students and research activities of it. 
>>Source: Daily Nation 6 th July 2007                        
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Kenya , Tanzania line up for Abbott's $12m Aids fund
Kenya and Tanzania will be the main beneficiaries of a $12 million donation
by pharmaceutical multinational Abbott to improve the treatment of Aids in
children. 
>>Source: East African 17th August 2007                      
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Tanzania

Go on fighting AIDS, Lowassa tells clerics
Prime Minister Edward Lowassa has said religious leaders have a monumental
role to play in educating and sensitising people... 
>>Source: IPP media 24th August 2007                          
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Uganda

Doctors to attend HIV summit
Ugandan medical officials will this week participate in the International
AIDS Conference in Seattle , Washington , in the US . 
>>Source: New Vision 21st August 2007                     
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