DRC: EI and its affiliates campaign for free public education

While they welcomed the news that state sector primary education was to become completely free at the point of use when the government announced its decision to do away with school fees, teachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have reiterated their concerns about teachers’ salaries and the need to find a sustainable source of funding for public education.
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Mozambique: educators set up a trade union to open social dialogue and improve teachers’ conditions

Crowning a global development cooperation initiative, the 4th Congress of the Organizaçao Nacional dos Professores modified the organisation’s constitution to become a trade union able to engage in social dialogue and improve teachers’ working and living conditions.
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Malibongwe Manono obtains chemical engineering PhD in a flash

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Two SA students to debate at Cornell University in New York

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Professor Mabokang Monnapula-Mapesela is Rhodes Uni’s first black female deputy vice-chancellor

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UCT alumni Denis Goldberg to receive an honorary doctorate

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