TUESDAY, 19 MARCH 2019, 08:17
Inventive Indonesians are coming up with new ways to get scarce reading materials into the hands of youngsters
With a great heave, a young man pushes the ancient, three-wheeled rickshaw down a ramp and it splutters to a start. The driver, Sutino “Kinong” Hadi, laughs as he putters his tiny Bemo in a loop outside a preschool in Tanah Abang, in central Jakarta. It’s all the signal the...
[Vanguard] Abuja -The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,has said it will soon compile and released names of people who have impersonated in its examinations in the past ten years.
[Premium Times] The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, says Nigeria will soon effect policy to prosecute parents who refused to enrol their children of school age in schools across the country.
[Premium Times] Ahead of the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME), the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) said the board had introduced innovations its successful conduct.
The first-in-the-family university students urging younger siblings to aim high with their ambitions.
With more and more women considering it, what exactly does egg freezing involve?
Universities say vital projects are ‘days from stalling’ as EU grants could be lost
Universities have raised the alarm about the potential loss of hundreds of millions of pounds worth of EU grants from the UK in the case of a no-deal Brexit.
They warned that life-changing research “could be days away from stalling” and urged the government to set up contingency plans to protect UK access to...
Education secretary to launch consultation to check courses are fit for purpose
The government is planning to streamline post-16 qualifications in England, scrapping funding for what it sees as poor-quality courses that fail to equip young people adequately for further education or employment.
In addition to A-levels and the new T-level vocational qualifications, there are 12,000 post-16...
Prof Joe Smith, director of the Royal Geographical Society, Prof Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy, and Prof Norman Gowar respond to a Guardian editorial
Your editorial in defence of the humanities (13 March) is well timed and well argued. The UK needs the contribution of Stem graduates and that made by graduates with knowledge, skills and understanding gained through study...
As the proportion of SEN children in alternative schools continues to rise, it’s time to stand up for inclusion
A showdown between parents of children with special needs and the government is coming. Three families from different parts of England have won the right to a judicial review of the funding allocated to local authorities to fulfil their obligation to educate the 253,680 young people...
Survey findings are prompting the profession’s leaders to take action to prevent sex discrimination and physical abuse of female economists.
[The Point] A United Kingdom-based charity who call themselves Orphan Child have promised to extend their humanitarian support to the Gambia to improve learning and water provision with clear emphasises on the needs and aspirations of Orphans.
[Guardian] Current political activities in the country should not take the steam out of a reality that the state of hostels for students in our public tertiary institutions leaves much to be desired.
[Premium Times] The French Embassy in Nigeria on Monday reaffirmed the country’s commitment to ensure improved relations between the two countries.
[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -The University of Dodoma (Udom) chancellor and former president Benjamin Mkapa has appointed Prof Faustine Karrani Bee the varsity’s new vice chancellor.
[Monitor] Sofie Kituyi was just an ordinary needy school-going child in Kamuli District when she was enrolled on the Equity Scholarship Programme.
The former education secretary has watched as class sizes have gone up, schools have fallen into disrepair and teachers have covered for cleaners. What’s next, she asks
Estelle Morris is someone who tries to see the positive side. She’s polite about political foes; she hopes that something better will come out of the nightmare that is Brexit. But she is finding it hard to sound upbeat about...
[SudaNow] He outmatched his contemporaries; being the first Sudanese to obtain a doctorate degree in history and the first Sudanese to obtain a professorship in this domain. Because of his discretion and his good performance as a school boy, the school tasked him to teach his fellow students when the history teacher failed to return from his leave because of illness.
[Concord] The West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists has during its 31st Annual General Meeting and Scientific Symposium in Freetown, graduated new fellows of the institution.
How one Welsh town became the backdrop for a remarkable fashion shoot. Words by Paula Cocozza. Photographs by Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte James
After their costume workshop at the Gellideg youth centre in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, some of the girls who had taken part braved the wind and the rain to parade the streets in their finery. It was soon after Halloween, November 2016....
Ministry of education will work with country’s securities regulator to ‘increase financial literacy’ among China’s youth
Chinese primary school textbooks may soon include definitions for terms like “price-to-earnings ratio” or “buy and hold” as the country embarks on a campaign to improve investor awareness.
China’s ministry of education and the country’s securities regulator said they...