Every time Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers New Year address, his office bookshelves inside the Zhongnanhai compound have always been studied by curious bookworms across the country and the world. As the camera pans, careful viewers can find that in Xi’s book collections are some quintessential French masterpieces, including The Spirit of Laws, Les Miserables, The Red and The Black, and The Human Comedy. “I developed a keen interest in French culture and particularly French history, philosophy, literature and art…

Russia has signed a cooperative agreement with nearly 30 African universities to enhance the training of mining engineers on the continent. Zimbabwean universities are also set to benefit as there are part of the Subsoil Africa Consortium Universities under which the agreement was signed. The signing of the agreements of commitment for the relevant support and implementation of this initiative follows up on the 2nd Russia – Africa Summit. At the summit African and Russian leaders agreed to explore a…

A congress for Russian and African science and technology mining experts opened here on Tuesday to explore ways to enhance the training of mining engineers. The week-long event themed: “International Congress: Africa Seeks Solutions,” has attracted 150 participants from 45 African countries. This event was organised by the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of Unesco in partnership with the Subsoil Africa Consortium of Universities and the Catherine ll St Petersburg Mining University. Subsoil Africa Consortium…

The Global Education Monitoring Report 2023, published by UNESCO, has three specific mentions on the use of technology in the education sector in Kerala. Under the heading, “Collaborative work will improve the quality and diversity of content creation”, the School Wiki portal is mentioned as an international model. The report says that a remarkable achievement is the development of content about more than 15,000 schools. The portal is the largest repository of local language information on education in India, including…