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For two days running, tension continues to mount in Iwo, Osun state as situation at Baptist High School, Iwo yesterday took a new dimension when some students of the school mobilized masquerades to the school. The students of the school, it was gathered also appeared in masquerade attire and prevented academic activities in the school

  Bothered by the yearly failures of secondary school students in their Senior School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has swung into action to tackle the downward trends by organising national trainings for secondary school teachers, beginning with Lagos State. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a three-day teachers’ training, Head

UBA Foundation has spurred education career of Nigerian youths as it organised  a mentoring and reading session with the students of the Sacred Heart Girls International School – Marian Calabar. Speaking during the mentoring session, UBA Regional Bank Head, Cross River Bank, Uduak Afangide who led the UBA delegation, said that the bank has come

  For many people, taking notes on a laptop is faster and more legible than scribbling furiously with a pen. But U.S. scientists have found the modern method could be harmful to academic performance as laptops encourage ‘mindless transcription’. They found that students putting pen to paper displayed a better grasp of concepts that they

  After 110 days of strike, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has said that polytechnic lecturers will not return to their classrooms until the union’s demands are met by the Federal Government. ASUP made this declaration yesterday after a National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja. In an interview with Newsmen after

  Tension, yesterday, enveloped a popular school in Osun State, the Baptist High School, Iwo, as the students wore different dresses that suited their religious inclination to school. The students, thereby, defiled the state government uniform specification recently introduced in all public secondary schools in the state as part of the schools reclassification programme. Apart

Poverty is not a barrier to success at school, a respected international organisation said yesterday. Factors such as poorly educated parents and run-down neighbourhoods condemn underprivileged families to a cycle of ‘social disadvantage’, according to some education experts. But the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development dismissed the assumption as a ‘myth’. Research shows children

An armed student who entered a school in Moscow and shot dead two adults before taking more than 20 teenagers hostage has been arrested. Police said the student had killed one officer and a teacher. Another policeman was shot and injured. The hostages were freed after the student’s father went in to the school. Russian

  Apparently disturbed by the several crises which led to the closure of Lagos State University (LASU), the Lagos State Government has again responded to the question over the increment of school fees saying quality tertiary education can’t be got cheaply.  “LASU is not funded by the tuition fees paid by the students. It is

    Next time you struggle to stop yourself scratching a rash or itch, the key could be to look into the mirror, scientists say. German researchers have discovered that the brain can easily be fooled into thinking relief is at hand. In a series of experiments using large mirrors, the team found scratching the