MWECAU initiates doctorate in education programme

New higher education programme to be ready by mid 2016
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A special skill based higher education programme is in the pipeline that will ensure that criticism that has long existed that graduates coming out from universities have irrelevant skills becomes a thing of the past and they can contribute to national ...

STEP programme pushes to improve education standards
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THE government will train 18,015 teachers countrywide under the Student Teacher Enrichment Programme (STEP) in a bid to improve education standards. The first phase of the programme started on March 9, this year, whereas 9,039 teachers from 20 ...

The University of Newcastle in Australia has conferred President Jakaya Kikwete with an honorary doctorate degree in Law, State House said in a statement yesterday.

NGO initiates sign language for municipal staff
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A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organization (NGO) – Childreach Tanzania has initiated sign language training to Moshi Municipal Council (MMC) staff so that they can give quality services to the deaf. MMC Executive Director (DED), Mr Shaaban Ntarambe, ...

Sudan on Tuesday  received an invitation from the African Union (AU) to resume negotiations on South Kordo­fan and Blue Nile areas early next November in Ethiopia, Sudanese Media Center (SMC) reported.

UDSM confers honorary law doctorate on JK
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THE University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has honoured President Jakaya Kikwete with a Honoris Causa (Doctor of Laws) for his distinguished contribution to society. A press statement issued by the Directorate of Presidential Communications in Dar es ...

Yale Honours Okonjo-Iweala with an Honorary Doctorate Degree.

Yale had in the past honored a handful of other Africans such as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (http://www.fmf.gov.ng) has received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University (http://www.yale.edu), one of the United State of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.

The Minister...

Opening of World Education Forum 2015, Seoul. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon centre, at the opening of the World Education Forum 2015, in Seoul. He is flanked by Hwang Woo-yea (left), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education of the Republic of Korea; and Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 19 May 2015. Seoul, Republic of Korea. (UN Photo/Evan Schneider).

Tanzania’s Minister for Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT),...