In a bid to improve students’ reading culture, pioneer principal of Yaba College of Technology Secondary School, Lagos, Mrs Adio-Moses has said that students should be discouraged from cramming, especially in their early years of learning.

It’s the tallest I’ve ever been; Hands shot up in the Basic 3-5 classes of Barbara Cox Schools in Lagos at my question: “What do you know about Children’s day?” Thanks to Google, you won’t miss the fact that May 27 was set aside by the United Nations in 1953 to celebrate children all over the world.

THE Senate Committee on Education has charged the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETfund to come up with scholarship and loan scheme for indigent students in the country in order to ease the burden on parents and students of high tuition fees paid by them.

In satisfying the requirement of one of their courses at school, the 300L students of Mass Communication and Library & Information Science (UNILORIN), last Thursday, organised hypothetical Public Relations progammes. The course, MAC 312 “Public Relations Techniques” is a practical course in the department of Mass Communication.

The calm atmosphere of Compton compound, a popular off-campus hostel for students of the Federal University of Technology, (FUT) Minna, located at 13 Zarumai Road along Bosso Road, was ruffled penultimate Saturday, as hoodlums suspected to be armed robbers, stormed the compound in an unsuccessful armed robbery operation, but leaving dead a 400 level student, Emmanuel Uduak.

ABUJA – THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed national cut-off marks for admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions. For the 2012/13 academic session, the board pegged cut-off mark for admission into universities at 180, while 160 was fixed for polytechnics, colleges of technology, colleges of education and other diploma-awarding institutions.

In order to recognise and encourage students who did very well in its examinations, the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, inaugurated a scheme to honour this category of students. Its essence was to celebrate the best students in its examinations. This recognition brought along with scholarship and national honour from the students countries.

HUMBLE, humane, team player, generous, unassuming, the list goes on. These were the adjectives used to describe the late Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, the 10th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos by staff, students and associates when Vanguard Learning went to feel the pulse on campus following the sudden death of the helmsman.

Their black attires showed the mood of thousands of students at the University of Lagos on Tuesday as they took to the streets in a candlelight procession for their late Vice Chancellor, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, who passed on last week.

There is no bullying and fagging in this school.” The JSS 1 student told me. And I believed her. After being beaten and punished for five of six years in the boarding house, I believed her. It didn’t matter that I stood on the grounds of a Pro Unitate school that reminded me of my own alma mater.