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Through an initiative that several people now refer to as an admirable course in the right direction for change in Africa, the Reach Them team early in April took her social impact activities to inspire not fewer than 175 young people in Lagos. Reach Them is the 4 days of Impact done annually to mark

Teachers in England are calling for GCSEs and A-level exams to be scheduled in the morning to help Muslim students who are fasting during Ramadan, it emerged today. Hundreds of thousands of pupils across Britain could be forced to take ‘large entry’ tests, such as maths and English, before 12pm under a radical shake-up. School

It’s the place to update friends about your day, share pictures and catch up on the gossip. But in the future, Facebook users could use the site to make electronic payments and save money too. The social network is rumoured to be seeking regulatory approval to offer financial services – including electronic money and remittances

Anambra State has emerged the overall best in the 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The official WAEC result, made available to The PUNCH, on Thursday, show that Ghana came first among West African countries while Anambra State came first among states in Nigeria followed by Abia, Rivers and Lagos states. The breakdown of

Akintunde Ahmad, a 17-year old Nigerian student at Oakland Tech in Oakland, who got a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 on the SAT, has received numerous offer to study in some of America’s top colleges like Yale, Columbia and Brown. While some people are still in shock over his accomplishments, the star student athlete notes in

Los Angeles (USA) students think some schools deserve more attention and resources. They staged a protest and took it to the streets. And they brought their desks with them. Some 375 empty desks blocked a downtown street. It stopped traffic for several hours outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices. Organizers say the number

Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested  the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and  called on federal government to

  Students of Yaba College of Technology and members of Education Right Campaign (ERC) yesterday protested  the prolonged strike action embarked upon by public polytechnic lecturers. The students took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to register their grievances on the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) industrial action, and  called on federal government

  Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, has ordered the arrest of three secondary school teachers for allegedly forging the signatures of their respective principals as having nominated them to supervise the May/June Senior School Certificate examination. Muoboghare said: “Their action borders on criminality and therefore they deserved to be

The Federal Government said the refusal of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to accept the payment of their N40 billion emolument in two instalments was responsible for the lingering strike. The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, said this in Bauchi on Monday at the North-East stakeholders’ town hall meeting on Tertiary Education Trust