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Children who own books are six times more likely to read above the expected level for their age – and yet hundreds of thousands of pupils are still missing out, a report suggests. More than 380,000 children in the UK do not have a book of their own, an analysis from charity the National Literacy […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has handed over no fewer than 195 candidates in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination to the police for prosecution over alleged involvement in various examination malpractices. JAMB said some of the candidates had been arraigned by the police in various courts while others were still undergoing further
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Weeks before he was set to graduate at the Western Michigan University, a Nigerian-America student, Bassey Offiong, died from coronavirus after being refused a test several times in Michigan. The PUNCH gathered that the deceased is a 25-year-old college student studying Chemical Engineering at the Michigan-based university. A relative to the deceased told The PUNCH
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An African American lady, Sotonye, shared her story on how she was able to finally study medicine after many rejections and depression. Narrating her story to Humans of New York, Sotonye said she had always wanted to be a doctor ever since she was a little girl. She got the inspiration after meeting with a
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The Ekiti State government will start teaching primary school pupils on the state-owned Ekiti FM 91.5, beginning from today. Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Francisca Aladejana, in a statement, said the 30-minutes daily programme tagged ‘school on air’ is designed to positively engage pupils who are on indefinite break as
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Phebean Ogundipe, nee Itayemi, was born in Esa-Oke, Osun (Formerly Oyo) state in Nigeria on May 6th, 1927. She had her elementary education in Esa-oke and Imesi-Ile. She attended Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos on a full scholarship for her secondary education and then proceeded to University of St Andrews, Scotland to obtain her degree in
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in a recent statement, said 60.2 million teachers and 1.37 billion students, representing more than 3 out of 4 children and youth worldwide are no longer in the classroom due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Organisation, nearly eighty percent of the world’s student population
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The National Examinations Council is currently verifying its workers and examination officers in its bid to fish out those in possession of forged certificates and to sanitise the examination system. The Staff Certificate Verification Committee, which was set up by the acting Registrar of the council, Mr Abubakar Gana, has a mandate to verify and
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Following the approval for the establishment of some programmes at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), The National Universities Commission (NUC) has accredited 19 courses at the Institution. This was declared in a circular signed by Dr. Maryam Sali, NUC’s Director of Accreditation, and dated March 19, 2020. The result of the development, according to the
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The national body of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has criticised its Ogun State Chairman, Tomiwa Bamgbose, for condemning both the Federal and the Ogun State governments over the closure of schools to curtail the spread of Coronavirus pandemic . NANS,describing his statement as reckless, said it has dissociated itself from the “outburst”
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