When it comes to you succeeding at school, being the teacher’s pet really does go a long way. A team of German researchers compared the personalities of teachers with their students before asking the tutors to rate each pupil. They discovered that when the teachers and students shared similar traits, the teacher was more likely
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Five teenage girls, Chloe Westphal, Marina Stepanov, Stephanie Lopez, Genesis Saucedo and Amanda Arellano, who are all students at Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennhewick, Washington, designed an app to help students manage stress and deal with anxiety and depression. The app, which is called Safe and Sound, features a journal for users to express their thoughts and
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Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, weekend, threatened to embark on indefinite strike from Wednesday if the Federal Government failed to attend to all pending issues raised in its ultimatum. ASUP had on February 11, issued a two-week strike notice to the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with the union over four
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Following the incessant unrest in public secondary schools in Osun State, The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has said the involvement of students in cult-related activities is one of the main factors causing disorder in the State Schools. In an interview with the Punch, Osun State NUT Public Relations Officer, Mr. Boye Abolurin, revealed that
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that candidates who are visually impaired will also participate in the computer based test (CBT) in the forthcoming Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination. It said the board would not deny any candidate their rights due to their disabilities. During a meeting with delegation from the Anglo-Nigeria Welfare Association for
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have propounded that teenage parents may be more likely to pass on birth defects to their children. The Study looked at DNA of 24,000 parents and their children found that when the father was 20 or younger, the children had many more mutations than did children of older dads, as well
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Sokoto state police have begun a 24-hour patrol of all schools in the state in a bid to protect pupils and property from terrorists attacks, even as the Boko Haram sect remains a threat. The spokesperson of the Sokoto State Police Command, Al-Mustapha Sani, on Tuesday said the initiative was started to make sure that
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United State – Getting enough sleep is vital for healthy living and productivity. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), teenagers function best obtaining 8-10 hours of sleep every night. However, contrary to popular stereotypical notions that teenagers spend ‘all day’ sleeping, a new study says otherwise. Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — Police in Florida said a teenager caught posing as a doctor at a hospital had been carrying out his ruse at the facility for about a month. Police were called to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Jan. 13 on a report of a juvenile falsely identifying
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Many schools in Liberia have reopened, six months after they were closed to try to curb the spread of Ebola. Pupils welcomed the move, but some raised fears that the deadly disease had not yet been totally eradicated. Staff at school gates were equipped with thermometers to take pupils’ temperatures and buckets of chlorinated water
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