About 69% of Nigerian students who wrote the last West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, failed. If this statistic is anything to judge the education sector by, it would mean that only […]

Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned.
Evidence suggests that the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade.
Opinion is […]

The West African Examinations Council has inaugurated the Walk-in-Candidates initiative for candidates sitting for its examinations.
The Head, National Office of WAEC Nigeria, Mr. Charles Eguridu, unveiled this […]

Albert Einstein said: “Your imagination is a preview of coming attractions.” When we consider education, does this mean that we will eventually live in a world where learning feels more like play and everyone has […]

It could finally let people who work on their feet sit down on the job.
Swiss researchers have unveiled an almost invisible ‘chairless chair’.
The exoskeleton can be locked in place, allowing the wearer to sit […]

The date of Earth’s potential destruction has been set at 16 March 2880, when an asteroid hurtling through space has a possibility of striking our planet, Dailymail reports.
Researchers studying the rock found […]

Nigeria has been given the all clear to host AFCON qualifying matches which begin next month after the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) instructed Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to find neutral grounds […]

Adults tend to remember their teenage years as easier, since they only remember it as a time when they didn’t have three kids and a mortgage. But ask any teenagers who are considering suicide over a bad […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Chief Yomi Ogunnusi, has identified the erratic power supply in the country as a major factor for the perennial students’ poor performance in public examinations.
It w […]

The umbrella body that represents vice-chancellors in the UK, Universities UK has put universities on alert to be ready for a potential Ebola outbreak, as West African students arrive for the new semester, which […]

It seems phone batteries always die at the same moment you need to make an important call.
But while shouting at your mobile in frustration might seem pointless, a new gadget could soon mean your screams won’t be […]

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, attributed mass failure recorded by Nigerian students in the May/June 2014 West African Examinations Council to the non-chalant attitude of government to education […]

Ever feel like your besties understand you better than anyone? As in, it’s hard to believe you’re not actually related? Yup, us too—which is why we were thrilled (and yet a little unsurprised) that it turns out t […]