The Education Ministry and the US Agency for International Development have proposed a new programme The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) to promote reading habit in school-age children. EGRA is designed to understand the best foundation skills to be used in early-grade literacy programmes, said Bridget Okpa, director for policy, planning, management and research at

  The 37th General Assembly of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, kicked off in Paris on Tuesday with Nigeria’s Supervising Minister of Education Ezenwo Nyesom Wike elected as one of the General Assembly’s vice presidents. China’s education minister Hao Ping was elected the president of the General Assembly. Wike led Nigeria’s

  Finalists in this year’s edition of the MTN Football  Scholar Scheme have said that the role of education in sports development can no longer be taken for granted. They said this on Saturday at Airforce Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos where they sat for their final Scholastic Aptitude Test examination to qualify them for admission

  The Group Managing Director of Cool FM, Mr. Amin Moussalli, has urged Nigerian tertiary institutions to expose their students to practical aspects of their chosen courses. Moussalli said such initiative would not only make the students have deeper understanding of their disciplines, it would also prepare them to make useful impact if they decided

  Nollywood actors and actresses are really getting it the way they want it with TB joshua’s ministry as apart from now he has delivered the likes of the late Enebeli Elebuwa , Camilla Mgberekpe, Jim Iyke etc; and now its actress Nneoma Ukpabi. Mrs Nneoma Ukpabi is a Nollywood actress who had the problem

  Laraine Cook, a former girls’ basketball coach at Pocatello High School in Idaho, was fired from her job in October over a Facebook photo in which her fiance, Tom Harrison, holds her breast. “I don’t feel that it’s an immoral photo, and that’s what the termination is based on,” Cook said. The photo shows

  National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools(NAPPS) has called for autonomy to enable them regulate the affairs and activities of private schools in the country, pointing out that the association is in a better position to flush out bad eggs in the educational system involving private school owners.  The call came at the South-West

    Barely 48 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan engaged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in a marathon 13-hour closed door meeting, in a bid to end the union’s four-month old strike, Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that officials of the Federal Ministry of Education have been directed to commence  processes for the re-opening of

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