TAN – The Afro News

Africentric elementary school

By michelle-lee : Well it’s finally happened.  After much discussion, protests and meetings, school Trustees voted 14-6 in favor of the “concept of continuing an elementary-to-secondary Africentric school pathway for students”.  The approval was met with loud applause from supporters in the public gallery. Read the full story

Student From Ghana

Commentary/Ghana/Africa Education

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong : The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambling for answers. Is it the quality of teachers? Is it lack of educational material? Is it the environment? Read the full story

Criticism in the work place

Criticism in the work place is often masked as a compliment, or a helping hand. Sadly, it is not always constructive nor is it as progressive as it is thought to be by the person delivering it. Read the full story

Ghana Ex-President Jerry Rawlings

Comment/Ghana/Africa :

All progress starts from the mind. The better the mind, the better the progress. How better the mind is driven by how serious, sophisticated, and deep the thinking is. If the society thinks poorly, its development becomes poor. This is glimpsed from the society’s intellectuals, their Big Men. Read the full story

Dominic Nitiwul

Comment/Ghana/Africa

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong -The Afro News International  : Forget the fact that Dominic Nitiwul, the main opposition National Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Bimbila, has LLM from the University of Westminster, UK, MBA in Corperate Finance from the University of Glamorgan, UK, and BED (Science) from the University of Education, Ghana. Read the full story

Mme Danielle Arcand en face des participants du café de l'intégration autour de la table

LE DOUZIÈME CAFÉ DE L’INTÉGRATION:  Par Juvénal BARANKENGUJE, PhD, The Afro News Vancouver

Le vendredi 08 avril 2011, à partir de 17h30, le Repère Francophone a organisé, comme à l’accoutumée, l’activité mensuelle baptisée « le Café de l’Intégration ». Cette rencontre d’échanges et de réseautage entre francophones de divers horizons a eu lieu à la bibliothèque centrale de Vancouver. Read the full story

Éducation et diversité culturelle.

Par Juvénal BARANKENGUJE, PhD, The Afro News Vancouver

Lors du Café de l’Intégration du vendredi 03 décembre 2010, les membres et les sympathisants de l’association Le Repère Francophone ont suivi avec beaucoup d’intérêt un exposé dont le thème s’intitulait : Éducation et diversité culturelle. Celui-ci a été présenté, à tour de rôle, par sept étudiants de SFU, inscrits au Programme de Qualification Professionnelle (PQP) de la Faculté d’Éducation. Read the full story

William Edward Burghardt DuBois, first African-American to receive a doctorate from the school

At the editorial meeting to discuss the 2010 Education Issue, publisher Honore Gbedze asked staff members to name one especially significant Afric champion of education. Those choices are briefly described below. What was interesting to see is that they were all closely involved in the craft and art of writing as their livelihood and their means activism. 

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University Of Ghana

Accra, Ghana, November 15, 2010 – Universities’ role in the development of a more prosperous Africa was advanced last week with the announcement of a new $2.2 million partnership between African and Canadian universities.

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