The Governing Council of the University of Abuja have ordered the shutdown of the school indefinitely It was reported that as the #BringBackOurExams protest was heating up, some students that were still within the school mini campus were chased out and the school put under lock and key. It wasn’t a different story in the
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You might hope that every school would want pupils to work their very hardest – and pass any exams with flying colours. But one primary head has decided there is more to life than educational achievements, and has written to her final-year pupils to tell them not to worry about their results. Headmistress Rachel Tomlinson
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said it would not go back on its decision to make the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) entirely computer-based. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said this in an interview a three-day National Conference on Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM) Education in Lagos. The conference was
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Thirteen-year-old Akintokun Adegboyega’s appearance does not convey anything special about him. He looks ordinary like many other pupils in his age bracket– harmless and innocent. But beneath this innocence lies a head full of figures. Little wonder, he has again emerged the 2014 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition champion. The young lad earlier in
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The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has given automatic employment to over 200 graduating students of the Lagos State College of Health Technology. The governor, who is the Visitor of the college, made the declaration during his address at the second convocation ceremony of the institution in Yaba, Lagos, on Thursday. Fashola in his address
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The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday cancelled the proposed competency test for teachers in the state. The governor has also recalled the 936 teachers, whose name were deleted from the payroll over certificate discrepancies and age falsification and announced the immediate extension of the relativity allowance to teachers in the state public schools,
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Agidingbi Senior Grammar School, Lagos has emerged first at the Commonwealth quiz competition held in Lagos to mark 30 days before the Commonwealth Games scheduled to hold July in Scotland. In a stiff competition among seven schools – Opebi Junior Grammar School, Oregun Junior School, Opebi Senior Grammar School and , Oregun Senior High School,
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Supervising Minister of Education, Sen. Nyesom Wike, was on Tuesday absent at a meeting with the Senate to resolve the grievances of the striking Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Unions, COEASU. This is the second of such meetings Wike has shunned It would be recalled that the
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The Federal Government, in consultation with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, has pegged the cutoff marks for 2014 admissions into universities at 180, while polytechnics and colleges of education were put at 150, respectively. The cutoff points were arrived at on Tuesday, after the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions, held
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Lagos State University, LASU, has said following the reduction of tuition fees, it will refund over N69 million excess fees paid by the students for the 2013/2014 academic session. This came after the state government’s decision to refund the excess to all students who had paid for the 2013/ 2014 academic session. During consideration, the
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