Trump Floats Bonuses for Trained, Armed Teachers
PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Thursday suggested rewarding teachers who are trained how to use firearms and have a conceal carry permit with bonuses – one of several ideas the administration is considering as a way to prevent another school shooting in the wake of a Florida school shooting in which a former student killed 17 children and adults.
The president called for “a little bit of a bonus,” according to the White House pool report, for teachers who go through “rigorous training” to carry concealed weapons.
“You can’t hire enough security guards,” Trump said. “But you could have concealed on the teachers.”
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Nigerians are receiving expired education, says U.S. varsity VC
Vice Chancellor of the University of America, California, Prof. Gamalier O. Prince, has said that the change mantra of the Federal Government must fix the educational system if there must be positive improvement in the country.
Prince, who stated that the nation’s academic system expired long ago, said that the leadership of Nigeria had continued to fail because the educational system failed to impact the right qualities and had not shown signs of recovery.
Prince said: “People in Nigeria are getting expired education. That is why you see people who studied engineering and are not able to do engineering feat. You see people who studied computer science and are not able to understand anything or diagnose computer language and what have you. This is because Nigeria’s educational system is a dilapidated one.
Full article: https://guardian.ng/news/nigerians-are-receiving-expired-education-says-u-s-varsity-vc/
I love to solve problems – Student who developed retina-rectifying technique
Bashir Dodo, the award-winning Nigerian student at Brunel University, London who just developed a new technique for improving retinal disease diagnosis, shares his experience in this interview with CHUX OHAI
How did you come about the idea to develop a technique for improving retinal disease diagnosis?
There are many methods for the diagnosis. However, they usually follow a complicated framework towards the development of the algorithms. Our method stands out due to its simplicity, speed and accuracy. When I was a child, I noticed that my mother used to like crossword puzzles and riddles.
This has helped in developing this algorithm, which is all about logic and reasoning. We take some principles of perceptual grouping, such as similarity, differences, continuity and discontinuity, which forms the basis of image segmentation algorithms. The idea was that if segmentation is based on these principles, then utilising them as guidelines to develop more efficient methods is a good way forward.
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