Barclays Africa has expressed commitment to drive Africa's economic growth agenda through a shared growth strategy by pledging to spend $93 million to improve education access and skills development of the youth.

Ethiopia has blocked social media sites until the national school examinations, which started on Monday, end on Wednesday.

The learning and teaching of Swahili has been made compulsory in Uganda's secondary schools, a move that the East African country believes will promote regional integration within the East Africa Community (EAC).

In Kenya, education, healthcare and agribusiness are just three of the rapidly expanding sectors where opportunity abounds, says Mworia, who runs one of the country's leading investment firms.

Ghana's gross domestic product grew by 5.9 percent last year driven by huge investments in health, education and provision of water, the International Monetary Fund has said.

Ghana's education ministry has distributed more than four million books in Ghanaian and English languages to improve reading performance of over 2.8 million early grade readers in public schools.

Mandela Washington Fellowship for young African leaders' initiative has concluded a three-day regional conference in Ghana, with a call on African leaders to pursue inclusive financial, social and digital policies to quicken the continent's development pace.

The first South African university to accept black students, Fort Hare, celebrates its centenary this year, with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, a former student, being part of celebrations on Friday, where he gave a speech.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), insists on titillation, essentially licking its exposed and hairy navel in public. The 2016 exam and in some instances, the answers for three of the four core exams: Oral English; Integrated Science; and Social Studies, were broadcast via a social media chat group.

Property rights loopholes are leading to a land grabbing pandemic, with Kenya's educational sector bearing the brunt of the crisis, writes Dr. Fibian Lukalo.

An audit report by Ghana's Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD) has revealed government community free senior high schools are not accessible to disabled pupils.

Before Ghana saw fit to dismantle its education system, children swotted for three critical exams – Common Entrance, 'O' Levels and 'A' Levels. Facing down long mathematical equations and with precious little time, Ghanaian children knew to apply BODMAS. Solving in this order – Bracket, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition and then Subtraction – should get you the right answer.

Students in both second cycle and tertiary institutions have taken to gambling as sports betting centres in Uganda's capital, Kampala trigger high school dropout rates.

From Cape Town to Casablanca, The Africa Report took the continent's temperature, talking to everyone from shoe sellers to politicians and financiers to identify their policy priorities and what issues they want to see making headlines in 2016.

Ethiopian Airlines has inaugurated it's the refurbished aviation academy, rebuilt at a cost of $100 million. The rebuilt academy, the airline said on Sunday, will increase its annual intake capacity to 4,000 students.

Student and worker protests in Gauteng suggest the ruling ANC may be losing its grip on the country's richest province ahead of next year's local elections.

By the end of 2016, businessman Thierry N'Doufou hopes that around 20,000 children across Africa will have one of his Qelasy tablets in their backpacks.

Companies and policymakers are looking at ways to transform teaching with new technology, which requires the development of infrastructure, creation of content and the training of a new generation of teachers

The government, run by the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), is focused on dealing with lower levels of oil production and a dropping oil price.

Local organisations In Cairo have taken it into their own hands to promote diversity and stimulate young minds