Education

News : Education

The Government Tuesday imposed tough rules aimed at ending the ongoing riots and destruction of property in schools. (AllAfrica)

The Senate Committee on Education has failed to broker a truce between the Federal Government and striking members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT). (AllAfrica)

In a landmark ruling on 15 July, the High Court in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, ordered the government to pay about US$13,000 compensation to a 15-year-old school girl raped by her class teacher. Mary Muyunda* brought a civil action against the teacher, the school and the minister of education. (AllAfrica)

Low enrolment in higher education poses a series of impediments to Africa's development, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Mr. Koichiro Matsuura has said. (AllAfrica)

Poor funding of the education system may render the Vision 2020 of the Federal Government of making Nigeria one of world's the leading economies a mirage if drastic steps are not taken to address the issue. (AllAfrica)

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Nigerian health workers will begin an open-ended strike this week, joining primary and secondary teachers whose own strike has entered the third week, officials of health told AFP yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Katsina State House of Assembly has initiated dialogue between the state government and Katsina State chapter of the NUT. The meeting is aimed at ending the four-week long industrial action embarked upon by the teachers. (AllAfrica)

THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has sent an urgent letter to President Umar Musa Yar'Adua calling for his direct and urgent intervention in the four-week national strike of the Nigeria Union Teachers over failure of government to issue a circular on the implementation of the Teachers' Salary Structure. (AllAfrica)

Last Friday, students of Kuoyo Kochia Secondary School in Homa Bay District damaged their school after objecting to being frisked before entering the examination room. (AllAfrica)

Students from schools affected by unrest have given a wide range of reasons for their actions, most of which resulted in losses running into millions of shillings. (AllAfrica)

A school affiliated to the Catholic church was yesterday closed after riots. (AllAfrica)

Up to ten pupils became pregnant in one school last year. And residents of one area in Nyanza are angry, with a local councillor saying this was the cause of the high drop out rates. (AllAfrica)

It's a warm, humid afternoon, and hundreds of students are gathered at Flamingo Secondary School Hall, chatting animatedly in small groups. (AllAfrica)

GAYAZA High School deputy headteacher Ronald Ddungu has won the Innovative Teachers Forum award organised in Ghana by the Microsoft for Teachers project. Ddungu won the Award for Innovation in the community. (AllAfrica)

Full text of a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops on the rising violence and unrest in secondary schools in Kenya. (AllAfrica)

In a three-prone dimensional speech which focused on Liberia's splintering school educational system, the head of the Liberia Media Center (LMC) squarely put the blame at the feet of parents, ministry of education and students, and many others. (AllAfrica)

About 100 students of Valombola Vocation Training Center (VVTC) in Ongwediva graduated in various areas of training over the weekend in Oshakati under the theme, "The contribution that vocational education and training can make to poverty reduction and the successful attainment of Vision 2030." (AllAfrica)

A teaching material donation of N$58 000 is to be handed over by the Windhoek Rotary Club to the Marti Ahtisaari Primary School in Katutura this morning. (AllAfrica)

Polytechnic of Namibia (PoN) students receiving financial assistance from the Ministry of Education almost had their hopes of further education dashed when the institution could not register them because of insufficient tutorial fees. (AllAfrica)

President Hifikepunye Pohamba who had a congested programme last Saturday unveiled a statue of late Reverend Mwadikange Vilho Kaulinge, at a new secondary school named after Kaulinge at Ondobe in the Ohangwena Region. (AllAfrica)

Discipline, commitment and fewer cases of absenteeism are some of the benefits of parental involvement in the education of their children, says Deputy Director of Education for Otjiwarongo, Simon Tsuseb. (AllAfrica)

The Polytechnic of Namibia has issued a decree that its premises are a no-go area for journalists covering student events, unless authorised by the Rector or the Vice Rector. (AllAfrica)

A three day workshop was officially opened on Monday in Tunis by Mr Lazhar Bououni, the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology. (AllAfrica)

Leading entrepreneur and politician , Professor Pat Utomi, has stressed the need to fast track the educational policy reform to free the children of the poor from the shackles of poverty. (AllAfrica)

The National Universities Commission [NUC] has pronounced Dr. Ijeoma Patience Obuh of the University of Benin as having the best-written PH.D thesis in science in all Nigerian universities for the year 2005. (AllAfrica)

The Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife, Osun State has scheduled its Post- University Matriculation Examination (UME) screening exercise for next Saturday, July 26. Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, said in a release that all candidates who scored 200 and above in the 2008/2009 UME and made the university their first or second choice are expected to fill and submit the application form on-line at www.oauife.edu.ng or http: eportal.oauife.edu.ng (AllAfrica)

No fewer than 100 students have been admitted for training at the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Lagos. They are to be trained in the nation's three major indigenous languages which include Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba as well as cultural values. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has appealed to the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resume negotiations with a view to resolving their differences over the sack of 44 University of Ilorin lecturers. (AllAfrica)

On July 27, 2007, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar promised that the education sector would be one of the sectors to receive the utmost attention of his administration. (AllAfrica)

Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara state has said that children are created by God and endowed with individual abilities to make them contribute to the development of the society. (AllAfrica)

THE R800m the education department has given to SA's eight medical schools to improve infrastructure and teaching capacity is not enough - nor was it intended to increase the number of doctors graduating each year, which has been stuck at about 1400 for at least the past five years. (AllAfrica)