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The Borno Government says it will re-open all public schools after the Ramadan fast. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the schools were shut on March 14, following series of attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on schools in neighboring Yobe State. Mr Inuwa Kubo, the Commissioner for Education, told NAN in Maiduguri on Friday that government had […]
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Indian parents have begun a boycott of a Bangalore school after claims emerged that a six-year-old student had been raped by two staff members. The parents, who staged a protest on Thursday, have asked the school to step up security for students. The alleged assault happened on July 2 but her parents discovered it only
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One hundred and seventy-six teachers have been killed and 900 schools destroyed in Nigeria’s Borno state since Boko Haram militants intensified their violent attacks in 2011, officials said Thursday. The governor of the northeastern state Kashim Shettima revealed the horrifying statistics in a statement to a committee attempting to make the country’s schools safer. The
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has taken a cultural competition among all Secondary Schools in Nigeria to Anambra State. The competition, which is scheduled to hold tomorrow at Cana House Mission road in the state capital, is expected to produce Nigerian students who would represent the country at the continental level.
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The twelve parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, Wednesday, explained that they refused to meet President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja last Tuesday because they were not in the city at the instance of the Federal Government or any of its representatives. They said they were in Abuja on the full understanding that they were coming
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The Governing Council of the University of Abuja have ordered the shutdown of the school indefinitely It was reported that as the #BringBackOurExams protest was heating up, some students that were still within the school mini campus were chased out and the school put under lock and key. It wasn’t a different story in the
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You might hope that every school would want pupils to work their very hardest – and pass any exams with flying colours. But one primary head has decided there is more to life than educational achievements, and has written to her final-year pupils to tell them not to worry about their results. Headmistress Rachel Tomlinson
A meeting scheduled between President Goodluck Jonathan and parents of abducted girls in Chibok, yesterday, could not hold as the parents shunned the meeting. The meeting was arranged after education activist and a victim of terrorist attack, Malala Yousofazai, met with President Jonathan on Monday and pleaded with the president to meet with the parents
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A South African school has been rocked by allegations that a senior teacher inadvertently screened pornography to pupils. The teacher, who has been suspended in the wake of the scandal, is understood to have mistakenly shown illicit sexual images during a presentation. His future will be determined by an independent probe currently under way, while
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said it would not go back on its decision to make the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) entirely computer-based. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said this in an interview a three-day National Conference on Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM) Education in Lagos. The conference was
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