Country Director - CCF Guinea is a new CCF programme with offices based in Conakry. This vacancy will attract a leader with plenty of initiative and extensive high level management experience to provide strategic leadership and vision for the Guinea programme. Program Director - this new and challenging vacancy based in Conakry, Guinea will attract a senior development manager to lead the efficient design, delivery and management of all CCF programs in Guinea.

ITPC is seeking to hire an International Coordinator, who with supervision and guidance from the ITPC's governing body, the International Steering Group (ISG), will manage day-to-day operations of the coalition. The International Coordinator will also work closely with the members of ITPC, all of whom are volunteers.

At least 8,800 children in Tanzania's semiautonomous island of Zanzibar are missing school and wasting away their childhood as they engage in various forms of child labour, a government minister has said. Most parents have their children engage in activities such as fishing and picking cloves and consider this as part of the child's education.

A recent South African Human Rights Commission report on the right to basic education maintains that levels of violence in South African schools are "unacceptably high" and that sexual abuse, gangsterism and drugs have become serious problems.

School heads want secondary education declared free by the Government. And all those who qualify for admission to local public universities should be admitted. These were some of the proposals they made to the Government as they concluded their five-day Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association annual conference at Kasarani, Nairobi.

The Minister of Education and Scientific Research, Jean d'Arc Mujawamariya, has disclosed that the long distance learning project at the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) is to turn into a national programme sponsored by the government when the Department for International Development (DFID) withdraws its support after a five-year contract.

Spanish TV cameras frequently capture images of undocumented African immigrants flocking to the Canary Islands. The sight of black masses disembarking on the Canaries reawakens centuries-old racial prejudice, says historian Antumi Toasije, cultural councillor with the Pan-Africanist Federation of Spain's Black Communities, who has studied Western stereotypes of Africans, reports the Mail and Gaurdian.

With South Africa still struggling to improve education standards, a new report has called on the government to consider using local languages as a medium of instruction in schools. "An inadequate command of language, whether by the teacher, the learner or both, constitutes a serious barrier to effective schooling and education," said the report.

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Thousands of students, teachers and disgruntled citizens took to the streets of the capital Niamey on Tuesday to denounce mismanagement and lack of funding for the country’s main university, currently closed due to protests. Organisers said 4,000 people marched on the parliament buildings, although an IRIN correspondent estimated turnout to be closer to 3,000.

The Geoseed Project is a non-profit volunteer organization based in the Silicon Valley. Our mission is to stimulate the desire for learning in children. A Geopack is a set of 12 recent issues of the prestigious, educational and colorful National Geographic Magazine.

AIFO/Italy is looking for a consultant for capacity building of a people's organisation based in a slum area in Nairobi. The consultant will be expected to run a workshop and provide training on working & strengthening of NGOs with focus on elements of leadership, project management and fund raising. All other things being equal, preference will be given to candidates from Kenya. Interested persons should send their CV to Dr. Sunil Deepak before 15 July 2006 at [email][email protected]

The Christian Children's Fund is a leading global NGO working in 33 countries and assisting more than 10.5 million children and families regardless of race, creed or gender. CCF addresses the causes of poverty in relation to children and provides practical tools for positive change.

The Government has started a programme of teaching lower primary children using local languages. It is being tried out in Nakasongola, Kasese, Kabarole and Iganga districts. In Nakasongola it is being tested in 25 primary schools. "The project is intended to explore ways of enhancing literacy, numeracy and life skills of the children," said Samuel Enyutu, the deputy principal outreach Nakaseke Core Primary Teachers' College.

Deaths of parents from AIDS-related illnesses in rural Swaziland has slowed the rate of school construction, school officials told Prime Minister Dlamini during a visit to the north of the country. "Construction of our high school was financed by parents. Unfortunately, most of these parents have passed away and everything has stopped," said Phindile Magagula, a community leader in Ludzibini.

While there's always a big rush every year to find a place especially for learners at schools in the urban areas, rural schools on the other hand are under-utilised. Expressing this concern, acting Principal Frikkie Cilliers told New Era that during previous years, the school had 350 learners. That number has dropped close to 100 now.

Behind the Mask is currently looking for correspondents to train in Basic Journalism and to eventually contribute LGBTI-focused news stories and articles to our website. If you have an interest in writing about LGBTI issues and have basic computer skills (you have access to and know how to use the internet and email). Email your CV and a letter of motivation or an article written by you, no later than Friday, 30 June 2006 to:
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The Tanzanian government will recruit almost 6,000 teachers within the next two months in a bid to address an acute shortage in its secondary schools, a minister said on Monday 19 June.

The South African Human Rights Commission has found that South Africa has two basic education systems -- the dysfunctional and impoverished schools used by the majority of children, and those for the privileged minority comprising well-resourced islands of educational excellence.

The chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has told the UN Security Council that investigators have uncovered evidence of "large-scale massacres" in Darfur, Sudan, but stopped short of labeling the situation there "genocide". Attacks on villages and refugee camps by Khartoum-backed Arab militias have killed as many as 400,000 people over the past three years, and left another 700,000 homeless and without access to humanitarian relief.