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48 teachers acquire mathematical skills

Posted on 2016-12-03 (2021-06-10) by Henry

Forty eight teachers have benefited from a mathematics skills training programme to upgrade their skills and improve their teaching in mathematics in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region. The training was sponsored by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and was facilitated by NOVAN Education. By Ghana News Agency Click here […]

Kigali to host science centre of excellence HQs

Posted on 2016-12-02 (2021-06-10) by Henry

The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences is set to establish a regional centre of excellence in the country. This was announced by the Institute’s founder Neil Turok while briefing journalists shortly after his meeting with President Paul Kagame at Urugwiro Village, yesterday. The centre of excellence will also serve as the institution’s headquarters on the […]

AIMS South Africa celebrates the success of its January intake

Posted on 2016-11-22 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

AIMS South Africa acknowledged the success of its fifth group of January intake students at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony held on 22 November 2016 at its centre in Muizenberg. Eleven students (including nine South Africans) received their certificates and will graduate through the partner universities that they are registered at. The 11 graduates […]

AIMS South Africa celebrates the success of its January intake

Posted on 2016-11-22 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

Next Einstein Forum announces NEF Fellows Class

Posted on 2016-11-18 (2021-06-10) by Henry

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today, 18 November 2015, announced the 2015/2016 NEF Fellows Class – twelve of Africa’s top scientists and technologists under 42 years old, working in Africa and around the world By Zweli Sikhakhane/biznisafrica.co.za Click here to […]

Adequately finance science education – Prof Allotey

Posted on 2016-11-11 (2021-06-10) by Henry

A renowned Ghanaian Mathematical Physicist, Prof F. K. A. Allotey, has called for deliberate policies to adequately finance science and technology education and research. By Donald Ato Dapatem/Graphic.com.gh Click here to view the full article […]

TTP training of 46 mathematics pedagogic inspectors in Cameroon

Posted on 2016-10-29 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

The AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, supported by the Government of Cameroon, organised the training of 46 national and regional pedagogic inspectors for mathematics in Cameroon from the 17 to 29 October 2016. This training aimed to strengthen the supervision and pedagogic capacities of pedagogic inspectors to enable them to […]

Neil Geoffrey Turok, Founder of AIMS and Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wins the John Wheatley Award

Posted on 2016-09-28 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

The American Physical Society has awarded Neil Turok with the John Wheatley Award for “visionary efforts to provide science and math training to young Africans, to help promote technological and socio-economic development on the continent.” The John Wheatley Award named after one of the twentieth century pioneers of superfluids was established in 1991 with the […]

Sky Science Sees University of the Western Cape Beat Big Names in Nature Ranking

Posted on 2016-09-08 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is top in Physical Science in Africa‚ according to a ranking by science journal Nature. The Nature annual index of peer-reviewed journal research bases its scores on the number of papers in a select group of prestigious high-impact journals‚ taking into account the percentage contribution of the university […]

Xolisile Thusini: A Smashing Science Success

Posted on 2016-09-01 (2021-06-10) by Cedric Shema

Xolisile Thusini is a particle physicist whose research focuses on the discovery of the Higgs boson and its properties. Thusini was born and raised in a small traditional household in Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal. She says it was her aunt, a lecturer at the University of Zululand, who prompted her to study further. “When you’re from the rural […]