The Gathering
Education
Classrooms, curriculum, assessment and the politics of schooling, reported from the continent.
EduCeleb
Nigeria
Nigerian education news with an accountability streak: WAEC and JAMB policy, exam malpractice, university governance.
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31 Oct
Senate advances bill to empower Medical College to award PhD degrees
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill for second reading seeking to empower the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria to establish academic programmes and award…
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28 Oct
UNN appoints Ngozika Obi-Ani Professor of Social History and Conflict Studies
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has appointed Dr Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani as a Distinguished Professor of Social History, War, Conflict and Memory Studies in recognition…
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17 Oct
TETFund to establish innovation hubs in 45 tertiary institutions
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced plans to establish innovation hubs in 45 beneficiary tertiary institutions across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to strengthen research,…
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12 Oct
IGP Disu, Safe School Coordinator to speak at EWAN Summit
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, is expected to deliver the keynote address at the seventh annual summit of the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN),…
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10 Oct
Researcher wins $5m Gates Foundation grant to cut maternal deaths in Nigeria by 60%
A researcher at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Ibraheem O. Awowole, has secured a US$5 million Gates Foundation-funded grant for a three-year project aimed at…
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10 Oct
The imperative of mentor-mentee relations for academic succession in the ivory tower
By Kenneth Azaigba A great university is not measured by buildings or rhetoric. It is often a product of invisible lineage that thrives on intellectual genealogy.…
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10 Oct
Nigerian researcher secures $63,000 US Support for AI-Powered renewable energy project
A Nigerian researcher based in the United States, Oluwaseyi Amisu, has secured a combined $63,000 in project funding to develop an artificial intelligence-powered system designed to…
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9 Oct
JAMB plans UTME centre in Canada for 2027
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced plans to establish a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) centre in Ottawa, Canada, in 2027. The proposed…
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NORRAG
Geneva · edited abroad
Critical education policy. Recent work on shifting responsibility for the education crisis onto children.
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30 Oct
KIX EMAP Podcast #30: What Are the Most Pressing Education Issues in Pakistan? Three Local Experts Discuss
This episode of the KIX EMAP podcast, hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA), features a panel of education experts from Pakistan: Dr. Sajid…
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29 Oct
GPE KIX Annual Report 2026: Strengthening Country Leadership for Education Reform
The GPE KIX Annual Report 2026 is out now! The report highlights how the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) is supporting…
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29 Oct
The Hollowing of the Classroom: Gen Z Resistance and Educational Legitimacy in India
In this article, Keerthan Chandra analyses the structural origins of youth uprising in India’s education system and considers what constitutes sustainable and credible systems for democratic…
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22 Oct
Key Insights on Education for Planetary Futures
NORRAG is proud to partner with Education for Planetary Futures, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES to develop the launch of Key Insights on…
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22 Oct
Clear Goals, Weak Pathways: What Zambian Secondary School Students’ Aspiration Data Tells Us About the Career Guidance Systems Meant to Support Them
In this week’s blog post, Fay Hodza and Alessandro Kosak examine support and skills for aspirational young Zambian school leavers to shape and realise their own future…
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19 Oct
Join Global Kindness Season with the Learning Planet Festival 2027
As part of the Learning Planet Festival 2027, taking place from 25 to 29 January 2027, the Festival is joining forces with Pass Kindness Forward, a…
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15 Oct
Is numeracy an afterthought? What Pakistan’s District Data says about the Order We Teach In
In this blog post, Huma Zia Faran explores what Pakistan’s learning data reveals about the importance of early numeracy and considers how it can be better…
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14 Oct
Evaluating the Quality Education India DIB: How Outcomes-Based Financing Can Shape Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Additionality
Tuesday, 27th October 2026 12:00-14:00 CET // 16:30-18:30 IST Online REGISTER Read the Case Study. About the Webinar Over the past decade, Innovative Financing for…
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UKFIET
United Kingdom · edited abroad
Practitioner and researcher essays on pedagogy, teacher policy and assessment. The closest thing here to argument about how teaching actually works.
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7 Sep
Social Literacies: origins, trajectories and implications for policy and practice
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24 Aug
Beyond 2030: UKFIET supports discussion on future of higher education
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20 Aug
A Statement from UKFIET Trustees and Executive on the Death of Professor Jason Arday
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19 Aug
Rethinking literacy: Mobilising local knowledge to bridge the gap in adult literacy programmes in Afghanistan
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17 Aug
Trained teachers are not enough: Why refugee classrooms in Kenya need walls, books and a policy fix before pedagogy can work
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12 Aug
The cheapest fix nobody is using: What refugee classrooms in Kenya reveal about the power of formative assessment
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10 Aug
How can we make the shift from junior to senior secondary school smoother in Kenya?
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3 Aug
Refugee teachers have the skills – they just lack the paperwork Kenya refuses to issue
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