[Efa] UNESCO/Nairobi: Monthly News Roundup Education and HIV/AIDSin the press - January 2008
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Kenya
Preschool enrolment decline
As enrolment continues to rise in primary and secondary schools, the reverse
is happening in early childhood education centres.
>>Source: The Standard 23rd January 2008
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1300 pupils to learn at camp
Preparations are underway for an estimated 1,300 school-going children at
Jamhuri Showground in Nairobi to resume classes. ...
>>Source: Daily Nation 16th January 2007
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Report to nearest school, PC tells students
The Government has asked parents displaced by the recent post-election
violence to take their childr..
>>Source: The Standard 11th January 2008
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493,443 who sat last year's KCPE to join Form One
A total of 493,443 pupils who sat the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education
(KCPE) examination last year will be admitted to secondary s
>>Source: The Standard 11th January 2008
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No school fees for day scholars
Parents will on Monday have to only buy school uniform and send their
children to public day seconda
>>Source: The Standard 10th January 2008
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State releases fee guidelines
The Government will pay part of secondary school fees to the tune of
Sh10,265 a student every year. ...
>>Source: Daily Nation 10th January 2008
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Tuition fees ready for schools
Plans for the provision of tuition fees in secondary schools in January are
complete, Education permanent secretary Karega Mutahi has said. ...
>>Source: Daily Nation 7th January 2007
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Good parent-student relationship a stronghold for better education
In just a few days from now, children will be returning to school and
parents are preparing to give them a sendoff. One important thing to put
into consideration is that education cannot successfully be prearranged for
students by their teachers alone; but as a team of teachers, parents and
students.
>>Source: Daily Nation 7th January 2007
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Rwanda
Broad-based education essential to Rwanda’s devt
Rwanda’s Vision 2020 is a socio-economic roadmap that is guiding the
country’s drive towards a middle income economy by the year 2020. Rwanda,
according to this plan, will be a knowledge-based economy with a
professional working class.
>>Source: New Times 21st January 2008
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MPs okay city school re-opening
KIGALI - Members of Parliament have given a go-ahead for the re-opening of
Ensengnement des Sciences Appliqués (ESA) in Gikondo, Kicukiro District
after making the hygienic standards required by the Ministry of Education.
>>Source: New Times 21st January 2008
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US hands over Frw111m school
KIGALI - The US Embassy in Kigali yesterday handed over Shyara Primary
School to the Ministry of Education. The seven-classroom block, which
accommodates at least 300 pupils, was constructed in Shyara Sector in
Bugesera District, Eastern Province. The school, worth Frw111 million, was
funded by the US European Command’s Humanitarian Assistance to Rwanda.
Through this assistance, seven primary schools have been constructed
countrywide.
>>Source: New Times 9th January 2008
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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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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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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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Uganda
Science teaching vital – Museveni
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged secondary school administrators to take
seriously the teaching of science subjects.
>>Source: New Vision 25th January 2008
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Kabarole to build classes
The district, under the School Facilities Grant, is to construct 20
classrooms, 15 latrines and purchase 360 desks for schools. The tendering
process is done and construction work started early this month. This was
revealed in the presentation by the education department to a budget
conference last week, at Kagote SDA Hall by district education officer
Victoria Businge. She said, however, that the district lacked funding for
Special Needs Education.
>>Source: New Vision 23rd January 2008
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Graduate college to open in Kampala
A NEW graduate school is set to open in Kampala.
>>Source: New Vision 23rd January 2008
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Gulu charity to rebuild primary schools at deserted locations
COMBONI Samaritan, a charity organisation under the Gulu Catholic
Archdiocese, has started a project to construct six schools at the sites
that were abandoned due to the LRA insurgency in Gulu and Amuru districts.
>>Source: New Vision 23rd January 2008
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Students advised on prosperity
STUDENTS of Merryland High School, Entebbe have been advised to always study
with a vision if they want to prosper in life.
>>Source: New Vision 15th January 2008
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World Vision aids orphans in Apac
WORLD Vision has donated sh48m towards vocational training for orphans and
other destitute children in Apac district.
>>Source: New Vision 15th January 2008
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Education promotes ICT in schools
THE Ministry of Education and Sports is promoting the use of information
Communication Technology (ICT) in all schools, to enhance the quality of
teaching.
>>Source: New Vision 15th January 2008
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Will filling staffing gaps improve quality in poor schools?
STAKEHOLDERS at the National Conference on Enhancing The Quality of Primary
Education in Uganda have agreed to fill staffing gaps in government-aided
primary schools in the least performing districts as one of the
interventions to improve performance.
>>Source: New Vision 15th January 2008
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First Lady praises American students
THE First Lady, Janet Kataaha Museveni, has commended American students for
raising resources to help poor communities in Africa
>>Source: New Vision 11th January 2008
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Gulu school gets new structures
THERE was cause to smile for the pupils of Palenga P7 School in Gulu after
their school got a face lift.
>>Source: New Vision 7th January 2007
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New policy to enhance UPE quality
THE Government has endorsed a comprehensive programme to boost the
completion rate and quality of Universal Primary Education (UPE) scheme.
>>Source: New Vision 7th January 2007
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Makerere to offer $25,000
A PRIZE of $25,000 (about sh41.7m) awaits three winners of this year’s
Makerere University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Excellence.
>>Source: New Vision 7th January 2007
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Karimojongs go to school to reverse ‘pen’ curse
ONCE a symbol of British oppression, education is now seen as the only
remedy to marginalisation for the Karimojong, a tribe of herders hidden in
one of the most remote corners of Uganda.
>>Source: New Vision 7th January 2007
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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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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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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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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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Kenya
Kenyan refugees to get ARVs
THE Kenyan refugees living with HIV/AIDS and on anti-retroviral (ARV)
therapy will continue taking the drugs from their camp at Busia Integrated
Primary School.
>>Source: New Vision 15th January 2008
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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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Uganda
MP tips on HIV/AIDS
The Bugabula North MP, Gerald Menyha, has appealed to private medical
practitioners to establish HIV/AIDS testing and counselling services at
their units. He said it would help communities’ access information and get
services about their status. The MP on Tuesday said many patients in the
district visit private clinics, which lack HIV/AIDS services.
>>Source: New Vision 25th January 2008
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