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            <title>Press Release: AVU to hold Computer Science and Teacher Education Curriculum Design Workshop</title>
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<p><strong>Nairobi, 16th, May 2013</strong>. The African Virtual University will hold a Computer Science and Teacher
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:07:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Press Release: AVU to hold Advisory Committee meetings for Teacher Education and Computer ...</title>
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<p><strong>Nairobi, 16th, May 2013</strong>. The African Virtual University will hold its Advisory Committee
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:50:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Press Release: AVU Wins a Third International Award</title>
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<p><strong>Nairobi, 14th, May 2013</strong>. The African Virtual University has won a global Award for the Outstanding Course/Text and Illustrations – Atomic Physics. According to Open CourseWare Consortium
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Computer Science and Teacher Education Curriculum Design Workshop, May, 20th to 24th, 2013</title>
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<p>The African Virtual University will hold a Computer Science and Teacher Education Curriculum Design Workshop from <strong>20th to 24th May, 2013</strong> in Nairobi Kenya. The workshop is expected to bring together about 170 participants from 27 African countries. The workshop will be preceded by the Computer Science and Teacher
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            <title>Gambia: Education Stakeholders Discuss AVU Multi-National Project Phase II - allAfrica.com</title>
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<p><br Stakeholders in the country's education sector, notably officials of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) and the delegates from the Africa Virtual University (AVU) recently held discussions on the
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            <title>Joint Initiative by ICDE and AVU to promote E-learning in Africa - Study Online in Nigeria</title>
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<p>Promoting access to higher education is now the focus point in Africa. Recently, initiative was taken on the 23rd by the International Council for Open and Distance Education or ICDE and the African
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<p><br The University of The Gambia (UTG) and the African Virtual University (AVU) have reached an agreement to introduce new virtual and electronic learning (e-Learning) programmes at the UTG. The project is under the
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<p>The African Virtual University (AVU) and the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE – a global body for the open and distance education community – have launched an e-learning partnership aimed at providing cost-effective and efficient tools to
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<p>Online higher education is increasingly hailed as a chance for educators in the developed world to expand access and quality across the globe.</p>
<p>Yet it may not be quite so easy. Not only does much of the world not have
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