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At least 60 persons have received sound knowledge of what their human rights values are, and the rights of others in Voinjama District, Lofa County.
As the competition for the post of the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti hots up, interest groups within the campus and the three unions in the institution have vowed to resist any attempt by the power- that-be to impose any unpopular candidate on them.
The Nigeria Customs Training College, Kano has graduated over 400 cadet officers and redeployed them for two months compulsory internship after the completion of 6 months training exercise.
Law faculties floated during moratorium would be considered illegal and unapproved by the Council of Legal Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School Dr Tahir Mamman, has said.
Over 5,000 students due for promotion to Senior Secondary Class(SSC) Three, but failed English and Mathematics in the promotion examination in Kwara State have been asked to repeat SSCII.
GOVERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State yesterday vowed not to give up in pursuing programmes that would positively affect the lives of people in the state and the country in face of alleged adversity, describing opposition to his administration as irresponsible.
The Federal Government has been advised to give education a priority because of its importance to the attainment of Vision 20:2020 as well as its capacity to solve national problems.
NAMIBIA is no way near reaching its own development targets and needs drastic intervention in its labour market and education system to get back on track, Bank of Namibia Governor Tom Alweendo has warned.
About 30 private primary and secondary schools in Kabale District were on Tuesday closed over lack of required operational standards.
National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) said on Tuesday that it had returned 2,000 street children of different ages to various public primary and secondary schools in Kogi State.
With increasing nutritional progress, maternal health improvement and implementation of the nine year basic education programme that includes pre-school, Rwanda has been cited as a nation committed to the development of its youngest population.
Happy, smiling faces was the order of the day as Grade 12 learners left their exam rooms after a three hour Accounting paper on Tuesday.
With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
Thousands of students who are indigenes of Lagos, Ondo, Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa States studying Medical and Engineering courses in various tertiary institutions are currently smiling to banks, courtesy of the N118 million scholarship funds made available by Agbami partners, a group of oil companies.
The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Ahmed Modibbo Mohammed has said that Basic Education is not only paramount to National Development, but for development to be sustained, it has to be anchored on sound and relevant Education.
Confucious Institute has been established at the University of Lagos which will provide Chinese language teaching at various levels, teaching Chinese language instructors and providing Chinese language teaching resources.
After he formally announced the release of results for the May/June 2009 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) recently Dr. lyi Uwadiae, Head of National Office, West African Examinations Council (WAEC), fielded questions from the education media, which included Vanguard Education Weekly.
Four students arrested in Bindura on Monday have been released after a night behind bars, as the harassment of activists across the country continues to intensify.
To further demonstrate its commitment to education in Nigeria, Cotecna Destination Inspection Limited (CDIL), a foremost trade security and facilitation company, has donated amenities and materials worth N6.5million to King's College, Lagos Island.
Both academic and non-academic staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife have refused to go back to work after the three-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was called off.
The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, have two major goals which currently pre-occupy their minds: to lessen the financial burden on government as regards the funding of the first generation university and to make the institution self-reliant by 2012.
The Kumasi Campus of the University College of Education Winneba (UCEW-K) has held its 14th Congregation with a call on the government, civil society organisations, and well-meaning individuals, for assistance with a massive inflow of financial resources to make the college truly functional.
About 200 students, from both Tertiary and Senior High Schools in the Old Tafo constituency in the Kumasi metropolis, have been handed a lifeline to further their education, after being offered a scholarship package by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei.
The National Association of Nzema Students (NANS) last week embarked on an educational tour to the three Senior High schools in the three Nzema Districts of the region, to give them tutorials on university education.
The Cape Coast Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Anthony Egyir Aikins, on Tuesday had discussions with the Headmasters of Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Metropolis, to strategise on how to admit more Cape Coasters to their schools. The meeting, which was held at the office of the MCE, brainstormed on the need for the Headmasters to allocate part of their protocol to the assembly.
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