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November 23, 2013

ASUU Update: Strike May Be Called Off Soon As Jonathan Approves N400bn

  The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation

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Why It’s Time To Start Teaching Students How To Think

  As a result of living in today’s age of technological instant gratification, it is becoming increasingly challenging for teachers to successfully grab and hold students’ attention long enough for them to process the information they receive using critical thinking skills. Ironically, even our testing methods detract from proper thinking and analysis. We set time

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ASUU, FG meeting reaches a dead end – again!

  The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, has once again ended in a stalemate. Governor Gabriel Suswam announced at the end of the closed-door meeting which lasted for about three hours, that N100billion will be disbursed by September 1, to tackle infrastructure deficit in the country’s universities.

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US Schools Top World University Ranking As Nigerian Institutions Remain Elusive

  The United States colleges topped the  global higher education ranking with 17 of its universities in the top 20 institutions. Some institutions swapped places in the top 20 but they were all still there except for the University of Tokyo, which slipped a place to make way for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH

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BREAKING NEWS: President Jonathan directs immediate action to end ASUU strike

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going strike. The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and

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Texting and Verbal Skills: Will Today’s Teens Be Able to Communicate

  Today more and more teens have cell phones.  Teen texting between friends has now overtaken cell phone communications – and every other common form of interaction.  According to a study byPEW Research: Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month. One in three send more than

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