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GOVERNMENT has no money to pay teachers invigilating this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations and is urging the educators to make sacrifices for their students, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday.
The inspector-general of higher education, Madeira Pereira, Monday in Luanda called on university students for greater engagement in researching activities, for a better quality of teaching and learning.
The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society.
The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, Cândida Teixeira, advised Sunday in Luanda, Angolan young women to engage in training, especially in courses of social sciences, for the country's continuous growth.
THE TERTIARY Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has entreated the government to remain focused and not to be distracted by 'antagonists', whose main objective is to bring down President Mills' administration.
Fifteen students from Ebonyi State are to be trained at the Nigeria Maritime Academy, through an N81 million government scholarship fund as part of efforts to have its indigenes in all sectors of the nation's economy.
On September 23, I wrote on these pages suggesting a way out of the stalemate that had gripped Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, over the appointment of its vice-chancellor since the departure of the last substantive V-C, Professor Shehu Usman Abdullahi, in May. Nine candidates had applied, but one had dropped out before screening by a selection committee of five appointed by the university and ...
Vice President of Visual Art Association of Nigeria (VATAN), Prince Adeyemi Kosoko has decried the attitude of state governments towards the provision of visual materials to secondary and primary schools in the country.
The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State has resumed for the 2009/2010 academic session and has commenced academic activities for both fresh and returning students of the institution.
Why did it take the Alumni Association so long time to have an Abuja Chapter?
Oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited has donated to the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom State, various engineering equipment worth N17 million, to promote effective teaching and learning.
The use of multiple-choice questions in Post Universities Matriculation Examination (Post-UME) screening by universities in the country contravenes the original concept. Former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola has said.
A Canadian Education Consultant and international admission specialist, Ms. Karen Perez has attributed attempts by parents to seek better education opportunities for their children where available, to the insecurity in the country's education system.
Ghanaian President, Prof. John Evans Attah-Mills has pledged his government's full support to the Association of African Universities (AAU). He made the pledge while receiving the Board members of the association, led by the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede, who visited the President on the African University Day, November 12.
Teachers and pupils of Baptist Day Primary School , Agbesi Ewekoro, Ogun State had cause to celebrate, as Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc. recently renovated and provided electricity for the entire school complex comprising five blocks of 14 classrooms, laboratory, head teachers office and the toilet.
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has warned that it would not recognise any graduate of Engineering from universities or institutions approved only by the National Universities Commission (NUC) without a corresponding approval by the council.
A Lagos-based firm, Mclilyville Consulting Limited has, in collaboration with the state Ministry of Education, organised a free Mathematics clinic for Senior Secondary One (SS1) students drawn from senior secondary schools in the state's Education District Five.
Hauwa Adamu's favourite subjects are Chemistry and Biology. Notwithstanding that oil is the backbone of Nigeria's economy, the SS2 student of Government Secondary School, Jiwa, Abuja, said she knew nothing about how the country became one of its major producers in the world.
Lagos State government has commenced a comprehensive computer literacy programme involving teachers and counselors in all primary and secondary schools as part of its effort aimed at improving learning and teaching techniques.
BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga was likely to receive a first report this week from her department's investigators on why cheating kept on cropping up in matric examinations in Mpumalanga, the department's chief director of examinations and assessment, Nkosi Sishi, said yesterday.
THE ministry of education and sports is to incorporate anti-doping lessons in the school curriculum to help fight the increasing drug abuse among the youth.
A TOTAL of 713 students have graduated with diplomas and degrees in various business courses at Multitech Business School. The school's second graduation had 453 females and 260 males.
WHEN Prof. Timothy Wangusa, the presidential adviser on literary affairs, was a little boy, he used to walk 500 metres, everyday to Nambale Pre-Primary School. Wangusa became a literature lecturer and professor at Makerere University and Mukono Christian University, respectively for over 40 years.
Zimbabwe continues to offer quality education despite the economic challenges facing the nation, a senior Government official has said.
Modern goat rearing's future looks bright following the move by Makerere University researchers to come up with ways to prevent and lessen the goat disease burden. Now researchers say, they can eradicate goat diseases by either confining and separating male from female goats.
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