EXCLUSIVE: LASU VC Appointment: Visitation panel recommends new selection process
The panel has also recommended the engagement of consultants to join a new joint council and senate selection committee to be inaugurated by the university’s governing council.
The controversies over the appointment of 9th substantive vice-chancellor at the
Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, may yet be far from being over as the visitation panel appointed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has recommended jettisoning of the report of the second selection process,
The panel, headed by the Pro-Chancellor of the Ekiti State University and former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Bamitale Omole, on Monday submitted a three-volume report to Mr Sanwo-Olu containing its recommendations on ways towards resolving the lingering crisis over the appointment, among other pertinent issues.
Should There Be Shona-Language Versions of Google and Social Media Sites? This Zimbawean Technologist Says Yes
Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda s conducts machine learning research on the Shona language
Editor’s note: From April 13-19 2021, Blessing Sibanda will be hosting the @DigiAfricanLang rotating Twitter account, which explores how technology can be used to revitalize African languages. Read more about the campaign here.
Shona, an official language of Zimbabwe, is one of the most spoken Bantu languages, with an estimated 10.8 million speakers. But while there are a number of established historical and literary resources in Shona, the visibility of the language online is far from encouraging.
Journalists ‘bathing in poverty’
As Namibia celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration and the subsequent establishment of World Press Freedom Day, local media practitioners say journalists are overstretched.
During the biggest celebration of Namibia’s media sector in the last 30 years, journalists in its biggest newsroom, the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), are on strike over wages and better working conditions.
The media practitioners agree that newsrooms in Namibia are facing unprecedented challenges – declining circulation, declining advertising revenue and increasing printing and distribution costs. Financial pressure has resulted in retrenchments, and the increased use of interns and freelance journalists.
One Economy Foundation appoints youthful duo as Board of Directors Mandisa Rasmeni
The One Economy Foundation ‘ONE’ has appointed Beatha Iileka and Macveren Kapukare to their Board.
The Foundation stated that the new directors were selected because of their intimate experience and knowledge in local and international youth development issues.
Beatha is a 21 year old Bachelor of Accounting student at the Namibia University of Science and Technology and she is an Ambassador of the #BeFree Movement and Orange Babies Namibia.
While Macveren is a Software Engineer, employed as an Office, CS and CSI Lecturer at the Physically Active Youth (PAY) and is also interning at Green Enterprise Solution.
KENYA KAMBOWE RUNDU
Government will avail subsidies to the tune of N$161 million towards private schools owned by churches as a means to help them meet their needs during the 2021/2022 financial year.
This is according to education ministry executive director Sanet Steenkamp, who yesterday confirmed the figure, saying only church schools the state has an arrangement with will benefit.
This arrangement emanates from a memorandum of understanding (MoU) dating back to 1990.
Steenkamp was responding to a media enquiry on whether government has made budgetary provisions to the over 200 private schools in the country which have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic as far as enrolling and maintaining learners is concerned.