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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.
THE finance ministry did not withhold part of the funds for Universal Primary Education funds over ghost pupils, as the education ministry had requested.
Prof. Pen-Mogi meeting the students at the university main hall on Monday
In this interview a visually impaired person talks about his dilemma in his quest to get higher education. Apparently, his assertion raises questions about the University of the Gambia.
The Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday dismissed charges against the president of the University of Dar Student's Organisation (Daruso) and four others for lack of witnesses to testify against them.
Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi has commended Spring Bank Plc over the donation a multi-million naira 2-storey multiple classroom block to the Monsignor Maduka Memorial Secondary School in Ekwulobia as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative in Anambra State.
Rowdy students of Gulu University on Monday stormed the office of their Vice Chancellor, Dr. Jack Nyeko Penmogi and marched him to the main hall where he was forced to cancel late registration fees that were introduced recently. It all started with an abortive meeting between officials of the students' guild and the university administration that was called to settle the misunderstandings.
The current system for the evaluation of teachers in SA's schools had failed and a new model -- possibly including the idea, despised by trade unions, of returning to an inspectorate -- had to be developed, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said yesterday.
Wonderful administrators are in Abuja. The word they utter shows their state of mind. It tells of their mentality too. When the nation's education system showed shocking statistics in the secondary school leaving certificate examinations results for May/June 2009, the Minister of State for education, Hajia Aisha Dukku, had this to say: "We have...said that whoever is responsible for this mass ...
Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya has launched a campaign to give students practical techniques that will enable them to plan for life after school. Bukenya's Youth Leadership for National Guidance is giving students tips on how they can earn income while still at university and later create their own jobs.
The National Organisation of Trade Unions has strongly opposed a request by university vice chancellors to exempt part-time lecturers from saving with the National Social Security Fund. Notu says the move will make lecturers vulnerable when they retire.
Rotary Club of Ikeja District 9110 has constructed an ultra modern four-classroom block and a six-stall toilet at Sogunle Primary School , Ikeja, Lagos State .
Only 11 universities out of 57 (federal and state) on the Education Trust Fund (ETF)'s list accessed their normal intervention funds for last year. Worse still, only seven of them accessed funds meant for library development, while 13 accessed that meant for Academic Staff Training and Development (ASTD).
The board of the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) yesterday said it will partner with THISDAY Newspapers to stimulate and encourage intellectual, creative and academic development of Nigerians.
It is tempting to be immersed in reflections on day-to-day problems and lose sight of global currents as they shape those issues with which we are pre-occupied. You may rightly ask: why should a hungry Nigerian bother about whether the cold war ended or did not end on November 9, 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell paving the way for eventual German unification? It could be said, with a good measure of ...
As the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off its four months old strike on Thursday 23rd October 2009, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) wishes to commend the leadership and members of ASUU for a battle well fought.
Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema has released the sum of N150 million for the commencement of the Kafanchan campus of the Kaduna State University (KASU) and has made provision for N500 million in the 2010 budget for infrastructural development at the campus
Taraba State Agency for Mass Education, in conjunction with the National Commission for Mass Literacy, has trained 50 facilitators for a radio literacy programme.
Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Senator, Olu Alabi has donated a brand new 32-seater Toyota Coaster bus to the students' union. The presentation, held at the school's Conference Centre was attended by members of the council, staff and students.
A Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Jacob Olorunjuwon Akinyemi has stressed the need for periodic review of the curricula of all engineering programmes in the country's institutions to make them more practical-oriented and their graduates, more relevant to the society.
Sokoto State government has sponsored 45 indigenes of the state for a programme at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja at the cost of N15 million.
Chief Executive Officer of Landmark Group of Schools, Dr. Olamide Oladiji has attributed the decline in the nation's educational standards to the attitude of some parents.
Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), Lagos, Dr. Oluwole Olatunji has called on the National Assembly to assist the institute to provide funds for the replacement and upgrading of obsolete facilities
It was jubilation galore at Ikeja Senior High School, Lagos, as the Dick Tiger Iheatu Foundation (DTIF) recently rewarded five students of the school, who had outstanding results in academics, sports and display of civic responsibility.
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