(By Jeff Dunn) Do you know what the scientific method is? If it’s been awhile since your last science class, you may be saying to yourself ‘oh yeaaa … a little help?’ That’s okay. Turns out you actually knew it as a baby, even if you don’t know it now. That’s because this little
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(By Uchechukwu Udoji) Last month at the Ideas Festival in Aspen, Design For Change founder Kiran Sethi shared with HuffPost Live the two words that can open doors for children around the world: “I can.” Sethi first spoke about the ‘I Can’ teaching model in a 2009 TED Talk. She then brought the idea
(By Emily Lucas) Google has undoubtedly become one of the world’s leading corporations. They have changed the way we access information and how we learn. It is this last point that has become more predominant for Google in the last few years with their innovative educational programmes from elementary school children to university professors.
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(By Mairo Danlami) We hear a lot about autism in the news and from families who care for children with autism. We don’t hear nearly often enough, however, from children who actually live with autism. A speech by one young man, Eli Rosenberg, shows that we should do more to help one another. He
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(By NAN) The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday announced the accreditation of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Agriculture. The commission also announced the approval for Engineering courses for the University of Abuja. The Chairman of the Task Team on the accreditation of the College of Medicine and Visiting Professor to NUC, Eugene Okpere, made
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Time for some math. You either love it or hate it, but it makes the world go round. For me, math was always a struggle. I wanted to love it, but the numbers swirling in my head never seemed to straighten themselves out for the test. But maybe that’s just it–”the test.” When math is
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(By Uchechukwu Udoji) The Oyo State Government on Monday reiterated its commitment to capacity building in science and mathematics education, in line with its aim of restoring the pacesetting status of the state in education. The state Commissioner for Education, Adetokunbo Fayokun, said this in an interview with journalists shortly after declaring open the
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(By Stefanie Weisman) Top students aren’t made, they’re born. After effortlessly absorbing whatever the teacher throws at them, they spout it back on tests and watch the A’s come rolling in. They have exceptionally high IQs, making it next to impossible for the rest of the class to compete with them. They’re the ones
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Are students prepared for the future? Are they graduating ready to innovate? What are some of the skills students should have in order to have a successful future? Those are some of the questions Tony Wagner (follow him on Twitter @DrTonyWagner) answers in a powerful talk all about the skills students must have for the
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(By Dotun Onimole) Rising from a meeting with the Senate Committee on Education, the National Association of Nigeria University Students (NANUS) yesterday distanced itself from the ongoing dispute between tertiary unions and the federal government. The national student body, led by its national president, Peter Bassey Asuquo, insisted that the Academic Staff Union of Universities
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