The Administrator, Grace Schools, Lagos,
Mrs. Olatokunbo Edun, has called on privileged members of the society
to sponsor indigent but brilliant pupils to enable them achieve their
dreams.
Edun said this recently while presenting scholarship awards to two indigent pupils of the school.
While noting that the award was
instituted in honour of the late founder of the school, Mrs. Grace
Oshinowo, Edun added that it had become an annual event to support poor
pupils to enable them have access...
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Friday, 4 September 2015
04:49
Excellent Johnson
The United Nations Children’s Fund has
decried the unrelenting deaths of migrant children and their parents as
they attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in their bid to enter Europe at
all costs.
UNICEF works for children’s rights, survival, development and protection.
In reaction to the image of
three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian child-migrant whose dead body was
washed up a beach in Turkey, the UNICEF Executive Director, Mr. Anthony
Lake, said, “Heart-breaking images of children’s...
04:27
Excellent Johnson
The National Deaf Teachers Association
has said it is wrong to set the same academic standards for pupils
without disability and their deaf and hard-of-hearing counterparts,
calling it “misplaced expectations.”
The Chairman, Local Organising
Committee, Dr. Tola Odusanya, said this at the inaugural conference of
the association in Oyo on Thursday, with the theme, “Deaf children’s
education today: Creating a shared vision for deaf teachers.
Odusanya said setting the same academic
standards...
04:26
Excellent Johnson
A professor of Guidance and Counseling
at the Delta State University, Okobiah Otete, has called on the Federal
Government to encourage teachers in public schools to undergo in-service
training.
She said it would help to mould teachers’ attitude to work and enhance the development of the teaching profession in Nigeria.
Otete spoke at the 2015 Great Teachers Conference, organised by Jes’s Lord International Services Limited in Lagos recently.
The conference was held at the Home Science School,...
04:24
Excellent Johnson
The Executive Director, New Generation
Change Education Foundation, Dr. Sheri Ajasin, has advised pupils to
align themselves to moral values and national ethics as enshrined in the
constitution.
Ajasin said this during an interview
with our correspondent on Thursday. According to her, it is imperative
to engender a positive attitudinal change by observing the seven
national ethics of Section 23 of the 1999 Constitution, using drama as a
tool.
She noted that these core values include
...
04:20
Excellent Johnson
A non-government organisation, Save Our
Needy, has donated learning materials and renovated some classrooms of
the Progress Nursery and Primary School, Festac Town, Lagos.
According to the NGO’s Chief Executive
Officer, Marvella Odili, the intervention was to make the learning
environment conducive for pupils who are from poor homes, adding that
the gesture was also to commemorate the inauguration of the first phase
of its ‘Better Life Through Education’ programme.
Presenting materials...
04:14
Excellent Johnson
Community Senior Grammar School | credits: Folashade Adebayo
Parents
who have had to pay unauthorised levies to the management of some
public schools in Lagos have cried out to the state government for
intervention.
The parents, who are alleging that
principals of the affected schools forced them to pay N1,500 before they
could collect the report cards of their children, are asking the...
04:11
Excellent Johnson
United Global Resources Limited, a
partner of Microsoft, has said no less than 128 pupils have benefited
from its certificate programmes in five years.
Centre Manager for UGRL, Mr. Odion
Oyakhire, said it was an annual programme that provides information
technology skills to primary and secondary school pupils.
“Within two or three weeks, 31 pupils
wrote the exams. Twelve of the 31 got certified as Microsoft Office
Specialists for Office Excel 2010, while 19 got certified as Microsoft...
04:09
Excellent Johnson
Some of the country’s leading child
safety experts have demanded that a subject which teaches children about
sexual abuse and relationships becomes mandatory.
Leading child safety experts have called
for a subject that educates children on issues such as sexual
exploitation and abuse to become mandatory in schools.
The demands come a year after reports
confirmed that more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited by gangs
in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
In order to help raise awareness...
04:08
Excellent Johnson
Survey finds that majority of parents believe that young children should not own smartphones
Children under the age of ten should not
be allowed to own a smartphone, a majority of parents believe,
according to a new survey
Internet Matters, a non-for-profit
organisation working to keep the internet safe, found that 85 per cent
of parents of primary school children want an age requirement enforced.
Currently, as many as 65 per cent of children aged between eight and 11 years old own a smartphone.
Newcastle...
04:06
Excellent Johnson
A school which has only taught boys for more than 500 years has opened its doors to girls for the first time.
Nottingham High School welcomed 41 girls in the sixth form as the new term started on Thursday.
The school, which taught writer DH
Lawrence, Jesse Boot of Boots fame, and politicians including Ed Balls
and Ken Clarke, had only accepted male pupils since it was founded in
1513.
There was also be a mixed intake of pupils in reception, year one and two.
Lucy Stansfield, 16, of Newark,...
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Saturday, 6 September 2014
07:28
Unknown
Many
Nigerians have disagreed with the new directive by the federal
government that all private and public primary, secondary schools resume
September 22.
The reviewed date made public on Friday was a reverse of the initial October 13 date approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
The
federal government had considered the option of keeping all schools
closed as a precautionary measure...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
12:19
Unknown
The House of Representatives Committee on Education has criticised the Ministry of Finance for the delay in release of appropriated education parastatals.
The Committee expressed its disappointment on the back of its
oversight function to the National Universities Commission to ascertain
the level of implementation...
Saturday, 16 August 2014
01:16
Unknown
An education consultant, Afolabi Imokhuede, has attributed the
decline in the performance of students that sat for the West African
Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the last three years
to societal failure.
Results released by the West African
Examination Council (WAEC) showed that out of approximately 1.7 million
students that took the exams, 529,425 passed with at...
Friday, 15 August 2014
11:48
Sergio kun
The University Management has approved the re-
opening of the
Portal for three[3]days, Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th
August,2014.
The re-opening was borne out of many complaints
received from
students ranging from wrongful upload of course
codes in some departments to errors in the
registration of some courses with compulsory and/or
elective status
in place of others at the beginning of
2013/2014Academic...
11:48
Sergio kun
The University Management has approved the re-
opening of the
Portal for three[3]days, Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th
August,2014.
The re-opening was borne out of many complaints
received from
students ranging from wrongful upload of course
codes in some departments to errors in the
registration of some courses with compulsory and/or
elective status
in place of others at the beginning of
2013/2014Academic...
Thursday, 14 August 2014
21:58
Sergio kun
Report reaching usfrom Makurdi, the Benue
State capital indicates that a female hostel of the state
university is currently on fire.
According to our source, the fire outbreak was caused
by electrical fault on Tuesday morning in the Block S
Hostel, 2nd campus.
This newspaper further learnt that no life was lost in
the incident. We gathered that fire service men are
currently on ground to put out...
Friday, 8 August 2014
01:52
Unknown
Prof. Tenebe Vincent
The
National Open University of Nigerian, NOUN, has awarded full
scholarship to the Paramount Ruler of the Isoko North Local Government
Area community; HRM Francis Onovughakpor Ekhama.
The announcement
was made as the people Emevor, a community in Delta State, celebrated
the opening of a NOUN Study Centre in their domain.
Vice
Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Vincent Tenebe,...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
12:09
Unknown
Members of the National Association of Ondo State Students (NAOSS)
are now at loggerhead with some aides of Governor Olusegun Mimiko over
an alleged undue interference to the affairs of the union.
They
are particularly pointing accusing fingers on the Secretary to the State
Government (SSG), Rotimi Adeola and the Senior Special Assistant to the
Governor on Youth Affairs, Muyiwa Asagunla for imposing an already
impeached Students’ Senate President, Israel Fagbamigun on them.
Speaking
at...
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