Nigeria and Italy have strengthened collaboration to implement the proposed Global Partnership for Education (GPE) financing campaign targeted at mobilising $5 billion for education financing worldwide. This is just as President Bola Tinubu has said the GPE vision aligns with Nigeria’s agenda, which aims at improving educational outcomes by investing in access as well…
Ma74e // Shutterstock Hands-on beauty education is becoming a fast track to entrepreneurship The market for personal beauty services is large and growing, with one report estimating its size at $233.56 billion worldwide in 2025, and projecting 7.22% compound annual growth rate between now and 2032. In the U.S. alone, it will grow to generate…
LONDON, United Kingdom, July 30, 2026/APO Group/ — Language is central to learning. Across many contexts worldwide, schools and classrooms bring together learners with diverse linguistic backgrounds and identities. This diversity enriches communities but also requires careful decisions about which languages are used in education, and how. In multilingual contexts – including those shaped by…
The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening inclusive education, saying it remains focused on ensuring that every child, regardless of ability, has access to quality education and the opportunity to realise their full potential. The government stated this on Tuesday while highlighting a visit by a student of Sango Senior Secondary (Inclusive)…
Sandra Foyt // Shutterstock How AI is reshaping higher education program discovery Prospective college students used to begin with a search engine and a list of links. Many now begin with a question typed into ChatGPT or Claude, and an answer that may never send them to a university website at all. The shift is…
The Institutions Are Hiring, and They Want Range Three of today’s most compelling listings share a common thread: they come from organizations with devoted audiences and strong editorial identities, and each one demands a candidate who can move fluidly between platforms, formats, and stakeholders. The old model of siloed media roles continues to dissolve. Copy…
Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers convened on Thursday under the chairmanship of the country’s highest authorities, adopting a series of decisions spanning health, education, urban planning and economic development. In the health sector, the council authorised new projects to strengthen medical infrastructure and approved the acquisition of additional technical equipment to improve patient care. Officials…
(Nigerian Children. Photo by UNICEF) UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has bemoaned the fact that, by the time they are 14 years old, just one in four Nigerian schoolchildren can read correctly and perform basic math. During a two-day media dialogue on digital learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and skill development for out-of-school children…
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Federal Government will soon inaugurate a dedicated radio station to broadcast lessons for adult and non-formal education learners across the country. Dr John Edeh, the Director of Literacy and Development, National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC), disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…
JASON REDMOND // AFP via Getty Images Khan Academy’s founder says AI tutoring revolution hasn’t come for education, yet Three years ago, as Khan Academy founder Sal Khan rolled out an AI-powered tutoring chatbot, he predicted a revolution in learning. So far, the revolution hasn’t happened, he acknowledged. “For a lot of students, it was…
