JAMB directs all institutions to end 2017 admissions by Jan. 25
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday directed all tertiary institutions to end their 2017 admission by January 25. The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
Benjamin said the board’s decision came after a meeting where all issues and ones bordering on the admission process were taken into consideration.
Source : Vanguard
We’ve won a victory for public education in Kaduna – El-Rufai
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday said the state has secured a major victory for public education by defeating an indefinite strike by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT without recalling any of the sacked teachers.
The NUT, supported by the Nigeria Labour Congress, had called the strike to demand the recall of about 22,000 primary school teachers sacked by the state government for failing a competency test.
In his first public reaction to the collapse of the NUT strike, Mr. El-Rufai said there was no time to dwell on the euphoria of removing trade union obstacle to better standards in the education sector.
Source : PremiumTimes
Why Education in Prison Matters
Tufts’ new college-in-prison program is hosting a two-day symposium, Prison and Education: The Responsibility of Engagement, on February 1 and 2.
It will include speakers who are graduates of college-in-prison programs, representatives from prisoner advocacy organizations, including formerly incarcerated people. The event, the first of its kind at Tufts, is free and open to the public.
The symposium, which seeks to bring knowledge of prison and education issues to a wider audience, is part of the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College, which includes a new undergraduate course at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI) in Shirley, Massachusetts. Hilary Binda, AG03, founding director of the program, last fall brought ten undergraduates to the medium-security prison, where they discussed literature with ten incarcerated men, who earned college credit for the class. The course is being offered again this semester.
Source : TUFTS