ASUU supports minimum wage
He explained that payment of tuition in Nigerian universities was unconstitutional as education remained a right and a public good. According to him, the introduction of education banks will do nothing better than enslave students and make them indebted for life. He also declared that ASUU was with the labour union in its efforts for the betterment of the life of Nigerian workers who are also producers and preservation of the wealth of the nation. Lawan lamented the lack of responsiveness of government to the needs of public universities, stressing that government was out to destroy university education as it had done to primary and secondary education in the country.
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Music school grants for poor students going to ‘comfortable middle class’
At the age of eight she passed the auditions to the Yehudi Menuhin music school near Cobham, within commuting distance of home. Because her parents were unemployed, Petrovic received a full bursary to cover the fees. Now in the sixth form, she plans to go to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and work in outreach to encourage music in state schools and institutions such as prisons.
Petrovic, 19, benefited from the government’s music and dance scheme (MDS), a £172m annual fund established to help “ensure that talented children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and families with limited financial means” have the opportunity to attend one of eight independent music or dance schools.
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