The latest wave of bullish commentary about the continent recycles familiar blind spots. A decade after "Africa Rising" faded, the real prerequisites for transformation remain stubbornly...
By Dishant Shah In diplomatic corridors and boardrooms across the continent, a familiar question echoes: “Should Africa align with India or China?” The premise is flawed...
By Chike Ayodele Igwegbe The mass deportation of Africans from the United States is an undeniably complex and emotional issue. Yet, amidst the challenges, it presents...
By Mary Alorh In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, African nations are striving to achieve robust economic recovery and growth. Despite a collective gross domestic...
Bloomberg | Nigeria is planning to set up a US$10 billion diaspora fund to attract investment from its citizens living abroad to support critical sectors including...
By Gregory Simpkins Although half a world apart, lower-income South Africans and Americans are facing increasing challenges to their economic wellbeing due to the influx of...
By Bob Kikuyu The positioning of the African Union (AU) Summit at the front of the calendar year serves well as a platform to sound the...
By Simon Ngalomba Soon after independence from Britain in 1961, Tanzania declared war on 3 main obstacles to its development goals – ignorance, disease and poverty....
By Walter Baets If you ask people what they consider the world’s most prestigious business degree, most are likely to answer, “An MBA.” Indeed, the Master...
The government has a mission to use a strong state to build infrastructure and develop the industrial and agricultural sectors. It argues that it could repeat the...
South Africa’s education minister says the nation of 11 official languages will introduce Mandarin into its school curriculum. The move is part of a greater effort...
Ghana will look toward boosting its local industries to strengthen its economy, President John Dramani Mahama said in his annual state of the nation address in...
The U.S. Education Department, yielding to pressure from historically black colleges (HBCUs) and members of Congress, said Wednesday that it would reconsider recent changes to the...
By Christoper Duff The other day I watched the movie “Django Unchained” and what resonated with me was the look on the slaves faces, during some...
African American lawmakers on Tuesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher...
Jean S. Desravines. PHOTO/Jami Saunders Jean S. Desravines is the Chief Executive of New Leaders Inc., – a non-profit organization that recruits and develops leaders to...
The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation’s...
Elementary school children in Ethiopia with their inexpensive OPLC laptops. PHOTO/Petterik Wiggers/PANOS Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results. Teaching at the Amaf school in...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says it is mobilizing volunteers to lobby at the state and local levels for its biggest...
News Release (Marketwire) — The University of Botswana Faculty of Business will receive a US$115,000 grant to develop graduate and executive business programs from the Graduate...
With a surcharge on wire transfers and international phone calls into Haiti generating only between US$40 million and US$50 million for education, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
The Department of Education recently announced it is providing US$228 million in grants to 97 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in 19 states. The funds...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File An education program named after NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson has arrived in Georgia. The Magic Johnson Bridgescape center is now open...
The education sector in Kenya is in crisis – operations in public universities were paralysed after employees went on strike to demand higher pay. The staff,...
African American school boys. PHOTO/News One District of Columbia and area students who headed back to school this week are expected to achieve academic excellence regardless...
Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a last ditch effort to prevent the 131-year-old school from being foreclosed on and sold...
By Julianne Malveaux The Olympic games are a celebration of excellence and athleticism. Whether we are cheering the Williams sisters in their gold medal-winning doubles match,...
A teacher of the all-boys grade six at Jericho Primary School, assists one of her 49 students. The school separates boys and girls to gain optimal...
African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne After reading President Obama’s Executive Order creating the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, I thought about my...
Freeman Hrabowski III. PHOTO/IUPUI President Barack Obama has named a University of Illinois alumnus and nationally known college administrator to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on...
It has been noted that more African-Americans are opting to home school their children. About two million, or 4 percent, of American children are home-schooled, according...
Students at State U. of Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO/Douglas Engle Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across...
Dr. Julianne Malveaux Julianne Malveaux, the economist and writer, is stepping down in May from her post as president of historically black Bennett College in Greensboro,...
African American Prep school boys. PHOTO/File The Palm Beach County School District needs to put its resources into more tutoring, getting students to take more Advanced...
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas is undoubtedly a death-knell for race-based affirmative action in university admissions. Although...
Less than two percent of America’s teachers are black men, according to the Department of Education – that is less than 1 in 50 teachers. If...
Dr. Robert M. Franklin After five years at the helm, Robert M. Franklin is stepping down as president of Morehouse College. In a press release issued...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will announce a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition...
African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne.com While achievement levels have improved considerably for minority elementary and middle school students, studies show academic performance among high school age...
Keith Boykin, editor of The Daily Voice online news site, a CNBC contributor, a BET TV host and a New York Times best-selling author of three...
African American school children. PHOTO/Courtesy NewsOne.com The educational system in the United States is largely broken. For the vast majority of African American students, the system...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) master’s degree programme in telecommunications policy and technology management (TPM) offered by the Mona School of Business (MSB) has...
Graduate Moses Landrum, during Morehouse College 124th Commencement ceremony, May 18, 2008. PHOTO/Jessica McGowan/AJC There is evidence and documentation that black women outnumber black men in...
Toronto District School Board trustees on Wednesday approved the city’s second Africentric school, this time for high school students. Cheers erupted in the packed public gallery...
I am the third, Freeman Hrabowski the third,” the good president said. “And my grandfather was the first one born a free man as opposed to...
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States, have contributed significantly to the effort to attain equal opportunity through post-secondary education for Black, low-income...
With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren’t more African-Americans looking toward science, technology,...
President Barack Obama will announce a plan to allow people holding two kinds of student loans to reduce their interest rates by consolidating their debts into...
Black Pupils in class Black schoolboys are underachieving in exams due to a cultural misconception that academic success is a sign of homosexuality, teaching leaders claim....
President Barack Obama is giving states the flexibility to opt out of provisions of the No Child Left Behind law, a move he says is designed...
Dr. Aviz Glaze (pictured), is one of Canada’s most well respected educational consultants. Her career, which began in the classroom, has included stops as the associate...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American university to do so in central Africa. The...
The first African-American woman to lead an Ivy League university is stepping down. Ruth J. Simmons (pictured), announced Thursday that she will leave her position as...
The lack of support networks has been identified as a critical aspect to involving more African Americans in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math....
California Watch - The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding...
They are arriving on party buses and in car caravans, on planes and on trains. Alumni will join students to backslap and trash-talk, holler and rally...
EDUCATION MINISTER Andrew Holness says the issue of failing schools cannot be ignored and has signalled that no effort will be spared to transform these institutions....
Ahead of the new school year, which begins tomorrow, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to solve the...
“Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment” (LIME), the Caribbean business of Cable and Wireless Communications, has begun a project to improve education across the Caribbean, creating a new...
Jamaica-born educator and current president of the Adventist-owned University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Trevor Gardner, has been named president of...
theGRIO REPORT - Parents and students who decide to leave traditional schools behind find common benefits, and support in each other...
A study published today in Science may shed new light on why African American scientists are so rare in biomedical research, and raises troubling questions about...
Elizabeth Hallaren, a 20-year-old white woman, says she is beginning to understand what it’s like to be a minority. As a fourth-year nursing student at Hampton...
Scores of educational facilities in Portland, St Thomas, St James, and St Ann are failing to meet public-health standards for the safety of their students and...
18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly is suing her McGehee, Arkansas public high school for barring her from being valedictorian because of her race...
One of my favorite African-American Studies professors, who held a doctorate in Africana Studies, used to ask the same question: Why do so many of the...
President Obama meets this afternoon with business and non-profit groups dedicated to improving the nation's school systems...
ATLANTA (AP) - About 100 presidents of historically black colleges are meeting to discuss their role in the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges...
Hopefully something good will come of this.
