Education
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Online University Nexford to starting offering courses in Kenya
Nexford University, a US-based learning institution founded in 2017 has announced its entry into East Africa, with Kenya as its first…
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CcHUB to launch $15 million accelerator for the ed-tech startups in Kenya and Nigeria
Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), touted as Africa’s largest innovation and incubation hub, has announced it is launching a $15 million accelerator…
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How Technology is Shaping the Business Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed the way we do business across all sectors of the economy. The disruption caused a…
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Nokia and UNICEF to strengthen digital skill development in Senegal with new partnership
Nokia is collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help improve digital education and training in schools in…
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Kenyan Edtech company Zeraki Raises $1.8 Million in Seed Funding
Kenyan Edtech company Zeraki has raised a $1.8 million seed funding round to enable product catalog growth and regional expansion.…
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Cisco Networking Academy has trained more than 1.07 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa to date
Cisco has trained and upskilled more than 1.07 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa through its Cisco Networking Academy since it…
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies to re-sell Raspberry Pi devices to schools in Kenya
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with Raspberry Pi as a reseller of their devices to schools in Kenya. The move…
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Huawei and Communication Authority Conduct a Cyber Security Boot Camp
The Communications Authority (CA) has partnered with Chinese technology firm Huawei to train young people in institutions of higher learning…
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Education stakeholders in Kenya commit to teaching coding in schools
Kenya Association of International Schools (KAIS) in partnership with Education Technologies firm, Kodris Africa and Kenya Commercial Bank on Thursday…
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Mara Launches Free Online Course to Advance Blockchain and Financial Literacy in Africa
Pan-African phone manufacturer Mara Group has launched a free educational online course with the aim to boost blockchain adoption and…
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BUSINESS
Make Your Back to School Easy With Equity
It is a no-brainer that the Back-to-school season can be a hectic period for parents, guardians, and students as they…
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itel Kenya Donates Libraries, Educational Materials To Meru Primary School
For children across the world, being able to go to school, learn, and make new friends is always a thing…
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Uhuru presides over countrywide roll-out of coding curriculum in schools
President Uhuru Kenyatta is in his last days in office and has used whatever time he has left to launch…
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CYBER SECURITY
Education Sector Suffers Highest Data Encryption Rate and Longest Recovery Time, Sophos report
Sophos has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Education 2022. The findings reveal that education institutions…
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National Bank of Kenya to Facilitate Financing for Kodris Africa Coding Program
The National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has partnered with Kodris Africa to provide a financing product for individuals and corporates…
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EdTech Firm Snapplify Launches Teacha Marketplace for East Africa
South African edtech company Snapplify has launched Teacha!, a resourceful marketplace where teachers can buy and sell their teaching resources.…
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Startups
Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8 Million Series A funding to expand across Africa
A Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE has raised one of the highest African funding this quarter of the year after clinching…
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Government unveils first coding syllabus for primary and secondary schools in Kenya
The Kenyan government through the Ministry of ICT has officially unveiled the coding and computer programming syllabus for public schools…
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Nigerian EdTech startup Afrilearn joins the UNICEF Innovation Fund
Nigerian EdTech startup Afrilearn has emerged as the only Nigerian startup to join the latest cohort of the UNICEF Venture Fund. Afrilearn…
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Startups
South Africa’s edtech startup FoondaMate raises $2 million seed funding
South African edtech startup FoondaMate is helping high school students in emerging markets to access revision material through WhatsApp and…
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Safaricom Partners with Zeraki Learning for Digital Learning Platform
Safaricom has partnered with Zeraki Learning to enable secondary school learners to access affordable education services from well trained teachers…
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Government to establish citizen digital literacy training hubs across the country
The government has announced plans to establish 1450 Village digital hubs for citizen digital literacy training, film production and public…
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Andela expands its talent offering to include designers, product managers, and data analysts
Andela, the startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering has announced that it is expanding its talent offering to…
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How to Get your KCPE results from your Telkom line
Education CS George Magoha announced the marking of KCPE is almost done, with results expected to be released this week.…
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Moringa School expands to Ghana in new partnership with Impact Hub Accra
Africa technology boot-camp, Moringa School is expanding to Ghana in partnership with Impact Hub Accra. Moringa said in a statement…
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New Appointments
Moringa School names Scale-Up Specialist Snehar Shah New CEO
Learning-accelerator Moringa School has appointed Snehar Shah as its new CEO. Snehar succeeds Audrey Cheng and brings a vast experience…
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Interviews
[Interview] Mila Semeshkina, CEO & Founder, Lectera.com: Convenient and Fast Learning is What Customers Expect
Lectera.com has achieved great results since its launch in summer 2020: from generating a first annual revenue surpassing 5 million…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
GARRR ACKERMAN: Digital transformation – The greatest barrier to education
More than 70 percent of disadvantaged students lost learning due to limited or no access to digital devices, this is…
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Airtel Africa, UNICEF announce a five-year $57 million partnership to scale-up digital learning for children across Africa
Airtel Africa and UNICEF have announced a five-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning for children…
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CLOUD
[Africa Cloud Review] Simon Ngunjiri: Cloud is transforming the education sector in Africa
In our last Africa cloud review column, we highlighted how cloud can help power smart cities in Africa. Cloud provides the digital infrastructure…
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Absa Bank to establish 66 computer labs in schools across Kenya
Absa Bank Kenya has kicked off a digital literacy enhancement programme targeting to establish 66 computer labs in schools across…
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Rosatom and Russian Universities launch Virtual Education Fair
Rosatom and Russian Universities are pleased to launch Virtual Education Fair «Study in Russia». This free event will showcase Russian Universities Undergraduate and…
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Huawei DigiTruck Celebrates Training of 1500 Youths Across Kenya
Huawei ’s digital classroom initiative DigiTruck has marked its 1-year anniversary by achieving the milestone of training more than 1,500…
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Online learning platform Coursera now offering free pricing options
Online learning platform Coursera has announced free versions of Coursera for Campus. The platform has also upgraded features to address…
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Yidan Prize 2020 education award laureates announced
The philanthropic educational foundation, the Yidan Prize Foundation, has announced winners of the 2020 laureates of its two education awards.…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
[Column] Tonny Tugee: Education and cloud technology in Kenya – the key to a competitive edge
A fundamental building block in ensuring the success of not only a country, but each citizen, is education. Our journey…
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Huawei Lighting up its office building for the UN International Day to Protect Education from Attack
Huawei has partnered with Education for All Foundation, UNCESCO and UNICEF on raising social awareness on the importance of safeguard…
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Huawei to replicate its Kenya digital classroom initiative in five more countries
Huawei ’s digital classroom initiative DigiTruck is expanding to five additional countries including France and the Philippines in the next…
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Relevant Online Content Imperative for Digital Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
The lack of compelling online content has been identified as one of the major reasons why millions of people are…
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Safaricom, Eneza, Longhorn And Viusasa Partner To Enable Free Access To Educational Content
As the effects of Coronavirus continue to bite Safaricom has partnered with Eneza Education, Longhorn Publishers and Viusasa to provide…
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Startups
This Kenyan Ed-tech startup wants to train teachers on digital content creation amidst Coronavirus concerns
The coronavirus outbreak has brought the world to a standstill. The virus, which started in China before spreading to different…
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Ministry of Education, Interswitch and UNESCO Launch STEM Competition for Secondary School Students
Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Interswitch and UNESCO have today launched a National Science Competition targeting secondary students with a special…
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The Need To Explore Space: Tunapanda Institute Plans to Open A Space Exploration Facility in Kibera
Tunapanda Institute was started 6 years ago by Jay Larson and Mick Larson, two globally nomadic brothers from the US…
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Korea Invests $9 Million to Support Development of Science and Technology Skills Across Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) has signed an initial US$ 3.8 million grant agreement with the…
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Orange and OpenClassrooms partner to provide digital technology training to young Africans.
Orange has announced a new partnership with online education platform OpenClassrooms to provide digital technology training to young Africans. …
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How to skyrocket your skills
Education, it has been said, is the key to success. One easy to access education tool are online courses. Online…
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Top Five Online Courses in African Perspective
E-learning and online courses (the so-called edtech) are booming, also in Africa. Often we talk about online courses in a…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
Guest Post: 3 basic EdTech features everyone should know
A new educational frontier for Africa EdTech is the use of digital education technology to facilitate teaching and learning. It’s…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
East Africa is the edtech hotspot
Opportunities Arising from Increases In Affordable Internet Access For many people Africa is known for the poverty of the people,…
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Connected Learning Key to Improving Education in Africa, says Internet Society Study
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet, in particular, can have a transformative effect on education in Africa.…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
Infographic : Relation between games and education
Contrary to the common perception that games are a waste of time, this infographic explains that games can be very…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
Guest Post: Cost-effective Digital Learning
While the rate of internet adoption keeps on rising especially in many African countries, the cost is still too high…
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Samsung partners with Virtual Essence to deliver digital primary school content
Samsung Electronics East Africa has partnered with Virtual Essence to provide a technological way of engaging school children with educational…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
Guest Post: Partnering for inclusive and transformative digital education in Africa
By Kunle Awosika, A considerable 92% of government decision-makers in the field of education throughout Africa believe that e-learning is…
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Aga Khan Academy adopts a computerized electronic examination system to curb cheating
Exam security is one of the biggest problems Kenyan schools have been facing. Cases of cheating during national exam have…
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Startups
Safaricom announces investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund.
Safaricom has announced an investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. The Safaricom Spark Venture…
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New Appointments
Maurice Korir appointed new FEP Holdings CEO
Fountain Enterprises Programme (FEP) Holdings has appointed Maurice Korir as the new Chief Executive Officer. In his position, Mr.Korir will…
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Samsung to take part at 5th Innovation Africa Summit in Uganda
Samsung Electronics Africa has announced that it will be taking part in the fifth Innovation Africa Summit scheduled to take…
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