[Efa] UNESCO/Nairobi: Education and HIV/AIDS in the press - 28th January - 1st February 2008

Mon Feb 4 10:03:35 EAT 2008

Events

VSAT Field Engineering Training Course, 13th -15th February 2008, Jacaranda
Hotel, Nairobi .
African eDevelopment Resource Center (AeRC) in collaboration with COMSATPRO
(Communications Satellite Projects) of South Africa would like to 
invite delegates to a 3 day Intensive VSAT Training course to be held on the
6-8 February 2007  in Nairobi, Kenya. HYPERLINK
"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/thyme/event_view.php?eid=111&instan
ce=2008-2-13"More

RECORDS MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP
18-20 February 2008, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. HYPERLINK
"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/thyme/event_view.php?eid=110&instan
ce=2008-2-19"more

IT Security: Security Management Practices- Theory and Practicals Training
African eDevelopment Resource Center (AeRC) in collaboration with Futuristic
would like to invite delegates to a 3 day unique, authoritative, high-value,
hands-on practical course which will provide participants with essential
understanding of the tools, methodologies and vulnerabilities that
fraudsters could employ to exploit IT systems. HYPERLINK
"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/thyme/event_view.php?eid=112&instan
ce=2008-2-22"more

Job Opportunities

EDUCATION ADVISOR 
CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CIDA) 
Nairobi, January 2008 
CIDA’s mandate is to support sustainable development in developing countries
in order to reduce poverty.  In Kenya, CIDA is involved in basic education
and is looking to recruit an experienced and qualified candidate as a
consultant for the post of Education Advisor. HYPERLINK
"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v
iew&id=2516"more

Kenya Organization for Environmental Education (KOEE)
KOEE is looking for an articulate and suitable Environmental Education
Officer with post graduate qualifications/training in environment or/and
education and with working experience in the related areas and particularly
in Education for Sustainable Development and/or Environmental Education for
not less than three years. The duties will include environmental education
awareness, training, material development, micro project development,
proposal writing, report writing and fund raising and networking. HYPERLINK
"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v
iew&id=2515"more

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47" \nNairobi UNESCO Education Clearing House

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Tanzania

Varsity students to access exam results through `sms`
Tanzania`s university students will from May this year access their
examination results through mobile phone text messages (SMS), according to a
local Information Technology (IT) expert. 
>>Source: IPP media 28th January 2008                                 
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"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v
iew&id=2514&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Vodacom Foundation donates 100 desks to school in Temeke
The Vodacom Foundation, in collaboration with Vodacom Information Technology
department, has donated 100 school desks worth 7m/- to Mivinjeni Primary
School in Temeke Municipality, Dar es Salaam Region. 
>>Source: IPP media 28th January 2008                                 
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"http://www.education.nairobi-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v
iew&id=2513&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Compulsory Form IV education could end early marriages, advises cleric
The Chairman of the Supreme Council of Islamic Organisations and
Institutions in Tanzania, Sheikh Mussa Kundecha, has said the government
needs to put in place laws, policies and programmes for compulsory Form
Four... 
>>Source: IPP media 28th January 2008                                
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iew&id=2511&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Uganda

Government to recruit 2000
THE education ministry will recruit 2,000 teachers to boost the Universal
Secondary Education (USE) scheme this year, an official has said. 
>>Source: New Vision 1st February 2008                          
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iew&id=2517&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Canon Njangali High promoting girls’
A LONG stretch of green, littered with well-tended flowers and blue
buildings welcomes you to Duhaga hill in Hoima. 
>>Source: New Vision 1st February 2008                           
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iew&id=2519&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Balunywa tips Basoga on UPE 
BUSOGA Kingdom premier Wasswa Balunywa has asked residents to embrace the
Governm-ent’s programmes geared at improving literacy levels among citizens.

>>Source: New Vision 1st February 2008                                  
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iew&id=2518&Itemid=127" \nClick here

WFP feeds 400 pupils in Busia
CLOSE to 400 children from 39 schools in Masaba, Luminho and Buhehe
sub-counties in Busia district are benefiting from food support from World
Food Programme (WFP). 
>>Source: New Vision 1st February 2008                           
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iew&id=2520&Itemid=127" \nClick here

Tanzania

36,000 people living with HIV/Aids benefit from ARVs
A total of 36,000 out of 54,000 People Living with HIV/Aids (PLWAs`) in Dar
es Salaam have benefited from a project aimed through a provision of ARVs`,
highly specialised care and treatment to opportunistic... 
>>Source: IPP media 28th January 2008                                   
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iew&id=2512&Itemid=127" \nClick here

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iew&id=707&Itemid=56" Weekly News Roundup 28th January – 1st February 2008 -
(PDF version, last updated 1st February 2008)

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