Lagos opens Nigeria’s first alternative school for girls
The school is designed to admit girls who dropped out of school due to early marriage, poverty, teenage pregnancy, displacement and so on
Jonathan battles to bring back reading culture
Thousands of students from 23 secondary schools including two universities besieged the ultra-modern EXPO Hall, Eko Hotel, Lagos, where President Goodluck Jonathan took the battle for sustainable reading culture to them.
Why Lagos pupils perform better in 2010 WAEC – Bamidele
Lagos State Government has commended teachers and parents for joining hands with Government towards ensuring continued improvement in the standard of education in the State as reflected in the recently released results of the West African Examinations Council.
Knowledge is power, Bamkole tells pupils
At a time most politicians are plotting moves and counter-moves to acquire power, House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, recently added more loads to his basket of tasks: getting Nigerian children to embrace the reading culture.
NGOs take campaign on child abuse, desert migration to schools
Patriotic Citizen Initiatives, PCI, in conjunction with Martha Ihekoromadu Foundation, MIF, has taken campaign against child labour, human trafficking, and desert migration to schools.
My first action was to prevent attacks on students, staff – Provost
PROFESSOR Victor Peretomode is the outgoing Provost of the Delta State University, Oleh campus. In this interview with newsmen, he spoke on his challenges and other issues.
UK don gives Nigerian students kudos
A lecturer at the University of Leicester School of Management(ULSM), Leicester, United Kingdom, Dr. William Green, has given a thumb-up to Nigerian students.
Pen to help children with learning disorders designed
A pen to help children with learning disorders has been discovered. It was among the learning tools and methods which received the attention of education stakeholders at the just-concluded World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), hosted by Qatar Foundation.
Students performance determines teachers’ success, says Don
The Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance, Osun State University, Osogbo, Dr. Ishola Rufus Akintoye has said that success in examinations lies on both the students and the teachers as the performance of students are the best way of assessing a good teacher.
Samsung/AGDC training scheme churns out 40 students
About forty graduates drawn from various universities across the country have completed a four-week training programme organised by After School Graduate Development Centre (AGDC), Falomo, Lagos sponsored by Samsung Electronics West Africa.
Global summit on education highlights impact of innovative trends
Over three days, the World Innovation Summit for Education(WISE) witnessed a diverse range of innovations, experiences and emerging new ideas from around the world. From funding to curricula, from conflict and reconciliation to new skills, from assessment to improvement of the quality of Attendees, laureates and speakers came to WISE to advance international dialogue and propose realistic and effective solutions as well as new ideas.
