The increased number of jobless youths in East Africa will continue to double or even triple annually to alarming rates, unless institutions of higher learning revise their curriculum to start teaching on-the-job skills as opposed to academic-based programmes.
Vice Chancellors and top professors from the academic fields attending a regional conference on education that kicked off in Kigali on Thursday have been told it is the only sure way of ensuring graduates don’t spend years looking for jobs before most of them lose hope and resort to menial jobs and others get into crime. More...

By Dana Sanchez. By the time he was 18, entrepreneur and leadership development guru Fred Swaniker had lived in Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
What he learned from a childhood across Africa is that while good leaders can’t make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries with weak structures, leaders can make or break a country. More...