EDITORIAL: Harmonise education systems in East Africa

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EAC develops tool to harmonise regional higher education systems.
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The just-concluded 31st meeting of the East African Community's Council of Ministers has endorsed an East African Qualifications Framework for Higher Education as an important tool for harmonization of higher education and training systems in the region.
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1988 saw the first SOS Children's Village open in Tanzania at Zanzibar, followed by a children's village at Arusha and Dar es Salaam. Over 150 are cared for in loving family homes at these locations and more than 700 children from the local communities ...

East African Community (EAC) member states are set to harmonise higher learning in order to set level standards of education for their citizens.

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EALA to discuss mechanism to harmonise regional education courses
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Speaker of the East Africa Legislative Assembly Margareth Zziwa (C) speaks during a news conference at the Bunge sub office in Dar es Salaam yesterday. For the first time under its rotational principle the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) resumes ...
EA House moves to Karimjee HallDaily News

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Friday approved loans amounting to US$98.22 million to finance the first phase of East Africa’s Centres of Excellence for Skills and Tertiary Education in Biomedical Sciences programme in Kenya Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. 
The project aims to contribute to development of relevant and highly skilled workforce in biomedical sciences to meet East African Community (EAC) immediate labour market needs...

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East Africa: Why All East Africans Are Looking Up to Magufuli
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In the club of East Africa's Presidents, Tanzania's new leader John Pombe Magufuli is a lonely man. His peers threw their weight behind his electoral opponent, and when he won, they refused to even acknowledge him with routine congratulations. In ...
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>As rates of Ebola infection fall in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, planning has begun on how to rebuild public health systems and learn lessons from the outbreak.

One of the key sectors currently under the Big Results Now (BRN) initiative is education. Clear targets have been set, along with deadlines. Ambitious pass rate goals for primary and secondary school performances come in the following order: 60 per cent in 2013, 70 per cent in 2014 and 80 per cent in 2015.