Most of us are familiar with Alexa and Siri and have employed them to help us out in some way or other. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. And now chatbots similar to Alexa and Siri are finding their useful way into higher education and
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The United Nations’ Children Fund has said that it will ensure that one million out-of-school girls are enrolled in schools in six northern states by 2020, under its Girls Education Project 3. The UNICEF identified the states as Zamfara, Bauchi, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto and Kano states. The UNICEF GEP 3 Coordinator in Kano State, Richard
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About Award: The NSE Essay Competition is one of the financial literacy and inclusion initiatives of The Nigerian Stock Exchange. The competition aims to bridge the gap in classroom learning with the practical knowledge required for long-term personal financial planning. The competition’s overall goal is to develop a culture of wealth creation amongst the youth
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it would use the National Identity Number issued by the National Identity Management Commission for the conduct of 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, stated this when the Director of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Mr Dasuki Arabi, visited him at the
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Eleven student teams from various universities will pitch their innovative ideas to solve societal problems to a team of academic and industry experts at the Professor Ogindipe Innovative Challenge (POIC) next Tuesday at the Jelili Omotola Multipurpose Halls of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). At a press briefing to announce the challenge on Wednesday, Dean,
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the June/July 2019 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results. The result was released barely a month after the conduct of the examination. Acting Registrar and Chief Executive of the NECO, Mr Abubakar Gana, while announcing the results at the NECO Headquarters in Minna, Niger State, said 1,151,016 sat
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If there’s anything people struggle to achieve as much as, if not more than, the elusive happiness, it’s better productivity. However, just like the art of happiness, being more productive isn’t rocket science either. The key is to work smarter, not harder. As the saying goes, “it’s not the number of hours you put into work,
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When we talk about accessibility in education, we tend to offer a blinkered view on what it truly means, becoming drawn into primarily domestic debates of admission fees and entry requirements. However, the issue is much broader than this. The latest UN figures reveal that there are over 263 million young people out of full-time education globally,
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In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas. Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried
The global scene of education has opened its avenues, accommodating students from various backgrounds to further their studies in universities of their choice. However, most of these institutions have their academic requirements, which must be met before admission. Some of them include standardised test or exams that must be passed by students before they can
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