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The 2021 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examination was held from19 June 2021 to 3 July 2021. Following the release of the JAMB result and the outcry regarding low scores, viral claims suggested that the board would hold a re-sit for candidates who scored less than 170 on 3 July 2021....

Seychelles (96%), Sao Tome and Principe (93%), Namibia (92%) and Mauritius (91%) had the highest literacy rates in Africa in 2018. One of the cautions with international literacy comparisons is that countries apply different definitions of what it means to be "literate". It also depends on how peopl...

There are 44 accredited federal universities in Nigeria, according to the National Universities Commission. ...

In 2021 the government allocated N1.13 trillion to the Education sector. This is 64.5% higher than the N686.8 billion allocated to the sector in the 2020 budget. ...

To date some 1,199,750 Senior High School students in Ghana have benefited from a free senior high school social intervention programme rolled out by the government in 2017.The programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), is meant to extend guaranteed access to free quality education for all children o...

There were 13 million pupils (pre-grade R to Grade 12) in ordinary public and independent schools in 2019, according to preliminary data from the department of basic education. This was an increase from 12.8 million in 2018. (Note: This number excludes early childhood development centres an...

In 2019, there were 23,076 ordinary public schools and 1,922 independent schools in South Africa, according to preliminary datafrom the department of basic education. The total was 24,998 – a decrease from 25,154 in 2018. (Note: These numbers exclude early childhood development centres an...

There were 444,857 teachers in ordinary public and independent schools in 2019, according to preliminary data from the department of basic education – an increase from 437,449 in 2018.(Note: These numbers exclude early childhood development centres and special schools.)...

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one. An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a v...