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Seven Hospitalised Candidates, Five Inmates Sit 2026 KCSE Exams

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 3 — Seven hospitalised candidates and five learners in correctional facilities are among those sitting the 2026 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations following special arrangements by the Ministry of Education. The interventions also included the relocation of two examination centres in Moyale Sub-County, Marsabit County, following insecurity caused by clan clashes along the Kenya-Ethiopia border.

Govt Relocates Two KCSE Centres in Moyale Over Kenya-Ethiopia Border Clashes

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 3 — The Ministry of Education has relocated two national examination centres in Moyale Sub-County, Marsabit County, following insecurity triggered by clan clashes along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba said the decision was among the measures taken by the government to safeguard candidates and ensure uninterrupted administration of the 2026 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.

Teacher tells inquest of grief after jumping castle tragedy

A teacher who taught some of the young victims of the 2021 jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania has told an inquest about the day of the heartbreaking incident and how much their deaths affected his life.

Kefas’ education reforms could make Taraba N-Nigeria’s learning hub—CCDI

THE Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity, CCDI, has lauded the education reforms of Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, saying they could position the state as a leading centre of educational excellence in Northern Nigeria. A statement by CCDI’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Olufemi Aduwo, said the administration’s invesment in education was fundamental to Taraba’s long-term prosperity and the competitiveness of its young people.

NAPLAN returns to pen and paper after digital backlash

Education ministers are blaming too much screen time for the declining performance of Australian students on international tests.

Sheffield researcher helps shape global policy on school meals and child health

Dr Robert Akparibo, Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Nutrition at the University of Sheffield, is working with international organisations and researchers to ensure these issues receive the attention they deserve in global policy. Dr Akparibo has been recognised with an appointment to serve as Co-Chair of the Global School Meals Coalition Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition.

IPI Nigeria to examine AI’s threat to media integrity

The conference will examine emerging challenges confronting the Nigerian media industry.

Energy Commission Renewable Energy Challenge: Government urged to fund TVET students to develop renewable energy prototypes

The appeal was made during the seventh edition of the Energy Commission Renewable Energy Challenge held in the Ashanti Region. Head of Public Affairs at the Energy Commission and coordinator of the Renewable Energy Senior High School Challenge, George Sarpong, said inadequate funding remained a major obstacle hindering the development of students’ projects.

Rent Control orders UGEL, private hostel operators to refund excess rent by November 17

The Rent Control Department (RCD) has directed the University of Ghana Enterprises Limited (UGEL) and all private hostel operators across the country to suspend rent increases that have not undergone the required legal assessment and refund excess rent paid by affected tenants by November 17, 2026. The Acting Rent Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, signed the directive, which was issued by Sylvia Kenou, Head of the Corporate Affairs and Communications Unit of the Rent Control Department.

UG to expand student accommodation as 2026/27 freshmen matriculate

Speaking on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Provost of the College of Humanities, Professor Joseph Awetori Yaro, said the university recognises the growing demand for on-campus accommodation and is taking steps to address the challenge. Meanwhile, the new student representative, Benedicta Lartey, an LLB student, highlighted some of the difficulties freshmen encountered during the registration process.

UNICROSS in turmoil as ASUU resumes strike after 104-day suspension

By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) chapter, on Monday, resumed its strike after 104 days, accusing the government of failing to honour agreements that ended the last one. The union also demanded the remittance of outstanding check-off dues owed to ASUU-UniCross and its national body since 2017, amounting to N11.9 million, as well as deductions for December 2024 and November 2025.

Top-performing college restricts enrolments as numbers soar

Tasmania's top-performing public college is bursting at the seams with more than 200 extra students crammed onto a campus built for 1,200.

French pupils resume school blockades as country braces for more protests

Minister warns weeks without lessons are putting exams at risk as unions plan nationwide strike on Thursday Dozens of high schools across France were blockaded again on Monday as the government braced for another tense week of protests over school conditions and the high cost of living. The protests come amid warnings that weeks without lessons are putting some pupils’ school year and final exams at risk.

Swooping magpie targets 12yo schoolboy in years-long grudge

Louis has been the target of a grouchy magpie for almost half his life, but is making peace too late?

Honouring Legacies: Deloitte celebrates former partners in a bid to deepen mentorship

As part of its commitment to honour past partners, Deloitte Ghana has hosted retired and current partners in a special engagement to celebrate the firm’s legacy, deepen mentorship across generations, and strengthen professional bonds. In 2023, Deloitte Ghana planted more than 1,100 trees and visited two clusters of primary and junior high schools through Deloitte Volunteer Day.

Hope Beyond Darkness Foundation supports vulnerable children through education, faith and community outreach

Its outreach initiatives have included visits to Gbeogo School for the Deaf in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, where it extended support to children with hearing disabilities. The foundation has also reached out to the Fulani community at Puso Naamongo in the Upper East Region, presenting gifts to residents as a gesture of care, inclusion and solidarity.

Ghana, We Need to Talk: Have we graduated from school without learning how to think?

Have you met someone with a PhD who struggles with disagreement, or someone who knows the Bible from Genesis to Revelation but struggles to show kindness? School and Life Do Not Always Teach the Same Lessons In school, failure often shows up as a poor grade; in life, it can become an experience that prevents a bigger mistake.

Francisca Sakyi

The Afaben Asona Family of Aburi; the Asene family of Aburi, Adeiso and Agona Asante; the Abesere Asona family of Dawu – Akuapem, the Biney and Tham families of Aburi, the Amako family of Sakyikrom wish to announce the call to eternity of their beloved: Francisca Sakyi Aged: 49 Which sad event occurred on Friday, May 1, 2026, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. Cousins Mary Amako, Samuel Tio Amako, Jermain Amako, Isaac Amako, Sandra Sakyi, Samuel Aboagye Chief Mourners Abusuapanyin Adu Gyamfi Opoku (Nsawam), Abusuapanyin Owusu (Accra), Obaapanyin Afua Kyeiwa Asabea (Aburi), Nana Obiri…

Compound wall of Government Polytechnic College for Women in Nellore collapses

Kerala HC reserves order on KPSC challenge to prosecution sanction over Planning Board exam ‘irregularities’

Kerala PSC secretary questioned for the second time in exam irregularities case

He reportedly told investigators that PSC chairperson M.R. Baiju had not consulted him, the other commission members, or other senior officials on important examination-related decisions and took many decisions unilaterally

Team Vomo wins 2026 MTN T3kyer3ma Pa Hackathon

Team Vomo has won the 2026 edition of the MTN T3kyer3ma Pa Hackathon held at the University of Ghana after beating other teams in a fiercely contested digital and innovation battle. Emerging from the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab at the University of Ghana and sponsored by MTN Ghana, the hackathon focuses on promoting digital inclusion and accessibility, supporting Ghanaian languages and local culture through AI and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies for languages like Twi, Ga, and Ewe, and solving real-world challenges in sectors including mobile money and financial…

A global youthquake is happening. Promises we made the young have been broken – and they know it

But in late 2026, starting with the symbolic act of young French people climbing the July Column at Paris’s Place de la Bastille, the world is experiencing the biggest outbreak of student demonstrations for 60 years. Youth demonstrations are now raging from India – where the government has responded with repressive force to the Cockroach movement – to Albania, where, after being out on the streets for nearly five months, students are demanding not only an end to corruption, but the replacement of the government.

UoN orders students back to lectures following end of nationwide university strike

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 2 – The University of Nairobi has resumed teaching, examinations and other academic activities following the end of a nationwide lecturers’ strike that disrupted learning in public universities for nearly a month. The strike involved the Universities’ Academic Staff Union (UASU), the Kenya Universities Staff Union (KUSU) and the Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers (KUDHEIHA), affecting public universities and their constituent colleges.