After 110 days of strike, Poly teachers vow to continue shunning lecture theatres

  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

After 110 days of strike, Poly teachers vow to continue shunning lecture theatres Read More »

Do people forget you if you’re PRETTY? Ugly faces are more memorable, scientists claim

  The old maxim of never forgetting a pretty face might be untrue as psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognised. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face is particularly distinctive. German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted by

Do people forget you if you’re PRETTY? Ugly faces are more memorable, scientists claim Read More »

Revising for an exam? DON’T use a laptop: Taking notes with pen and paper boosts memory and our ability to understand

  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

Revising for an exam? DON’T use a laptop: Taking notes with pen and paper boosts memory and our ability to understand Read More »

Way To Go! UBA Foundation mentors students on reading

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

Way To Go! UBA Foundation mentors students on reading Read More »

WAEC tackles failures among secondary school students, trains teachers nationwide

  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

WAEC tackles failures among secondary school students, trains teachers nationwide Read More »

OSUN SCHOOL CRISIS: Defiant Students Dress Up As Masquerades, Disrupt Academic Activities For Hours

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

OSUN SCHOOL CRISIS: Defiant Students Dress Up As Masquerades, Disrupt Academic Activities For Hours Read More »

Poorer students doomed to fail? NO! Study reveals quality of teaching is more important than economic background

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

Poorer students doomed to fail? NO! Study reveals quality of teaching is more important than economic background Read More »

Tension In Osun As Religious Crisis Looms Among Secondary School Students

  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

Tension In Osun As Religious Crisis Looms Among Secondary School Students Read More »

Scroll to Top