Outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, announced that coding will be added to the primary and secondary schools’ curricula. Despite his failure to deliver tech equipment for school-going children with the promised timeline, this development shows the government’s ongoing commitment to ICT.
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Politics and Society Algeria to introduce instruction in English from primary school
Algeria is moving further away from its francophone history by introducing instruction in English in primary schools. The country is trying to improve tertiary learning and academic and professional opportunities.
Politics and Society How Kenya’s degree requirement for top political posts turned into a fiasco
The level of education of the political class is not the key to progress.
Politics and Society UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assumptions
The UK is offering an elite visa for well-off graduates from elite institutions to stay temporarily in the UK.
Africans rising UCT remains top in Africa
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the best university in Africa according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2023.
Arts, Culture and Sport What the 100-year-old Makerere University in Uganda reveals about culture
Lumumba Hall residents are more generous and trust each other more than Livingstone Hall residents do.
Africans rising Congolese refugee shows dreams can and do come true
After a journey of struggle and hardship, an asylum seeker whose first job in South Africa was being a car guard is now pursuing his PhD at the University of Pretoria.
Politics and Society Alliance High School appoints new head — the smooth transition marks a new dawn
In 2016, Kenya’s premier public high school, Alliance High School (AHS) popularly known as “Bush” infamously made headlines — the bullying of form ones by older boys. Subsequent scandals have exposed some of the school’s traditional excesses casting a shadow on a major positive incident to come out the school in recent times: The transition of power from one head to another, the smoothest in as many years.
Politics and Society Stellenbosch urination emblematic of deeper racism
Though the Stellenbosch university student’s act needs to be condemned, obvious discrimination is a symptom of an ingrained hierarchical system that continues to favour white people.