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South Korea is to introduce a blazing fast 5G mobile internet service, quick enough to download a full length feature film in less than a second. While most of the world has yet to experience the improvements offered by 4G services, the technologically advanced country has announced a £900million in its successor. South Korea’s […]
A real Boeing 777 takes 50 days and hundreds of people to build, but one student has created an impressive miniature paper version of the jetliner. Luca Iaconi-Stewart crafted the incredible replica aircraft using only glue and manila cardboard folders, and it contains tiny details from padded airline seats, to fan blades in the
Think about it: when children are young, they’re encouraged almost constantly to be creative. They tell stories, play make believe and dress up, build forts, and draw pictures. Once they get to school, that flow of creativity starts to dwindle, and continues to do so as they get older and older. But the truth is
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The management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has closed the state-owned university indefinitely following what it termed ‘violent protest by the students”. This decision was contained in a bulletin, dated 23rd January, 2013, titled LASU management Closes University indefinitely. The statement reads, “In the wake of the violent protest by some affected students
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Forget carrying around a charger – your next mobile could be powered by the beating of your heart, researchers have revealed. A team of US and Chinese researchers has revealed a tint implantable battery they have used to power a pacemaker. It converts the constant movement of organs such as the heart, lungs and
Nissan, the Japanese car maker, said it would commence the assembly of locally-made cars in April. Senior officials revealed this at a meeting with the President Goodluck Jonathan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Nissan Chief Executive Officer, Carlos Ghosn, said the company planned to roll out the first “made in Nigeria”
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As a teacher you have a great deal of power and influence over the student body, and you should use this to help improve the quality of student writing. Teaching the English language is not just the English department’s job, it is the job of all teachers, and it is important to take student writing
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Memorization sometimes gets a bad rap in the education world. Yes, education IS way more than just memorizing facts, dates, formulas, spellings, and pronunciations. But you do have to get information into the brain somehow, right? Technology has brought more information to our fingertips, but does it also make us forget things more easily? The
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Etisalat has announced the 2013 shortlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the shortlisted nominees are: “Bom Boy” by Yewande Omotoso, “Finding Soutbek” by Karen Jennings and “We need new names” by NoViolet Bulawayo. The Etisalat Prize for Literature is the first Pan-African literary prize created to recognise and reward debut fiction writers in Africa.
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The Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has lamented the dearth of teaching staff in schools, just as it also called on state governments and proprietors of private schools to procure detectors to prevent candidates from smuggling in mobile handsets into examination halls. This was disclosed at the 56th
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