As the 2019 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show formally begins with a call for entries, Promasidor Nigeria Limited, the makers of Cowbell Milk, has reiterated its commitment to the improvement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in Nigeria.
“As part of the brand’s deliberate effort in encouraging Girl Child interest in STEM courses, Mr Einarsson, reiterated the company’s appeal to mixed secondary schools to nominate a minimum of two female students for each category. As research has shown that a positive relationship exists between girl child education and the GDP of a nation,” he explained.
The executive summary of the proposals, according to The Punch check on Thursday in Abuja, showed that the education sector got N620.5bn (about 7.05 per cent), marginal raise over the total of N605.8bn budgeted for the sector in 2018.
Over some years, the country’s funding for education continued to rotate between five per cent, six per cent and seven per cent of the national budget.
Labour MP Lucy Powell, a former shadow education secretary, who received the data after tabling a parliamentary question, said it was now clear that reforms of the GCSE system had put state school pupils at a disadvantage compared with their private school counterparts.
The number of teachers who walked out of classrooms and onto picket lines to demand higher pay, smaller class sizes and increased funding for K-12 students was unprecedented, according to education historians.
The movements in places like Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia galvanized educators around the country, prompting thousands of them to run for office in the 2018 midterm election.
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But as 2019 approaches, teachers are setting up to ring in the new year by continuing to wrestle with the same old issues.
Already some 31,000 educators in Los Angeles, the second-biggest school district in the country, are planning to walk out on Jan. 10 after the Los Angeles Unified District and the United Teachers Los Angeles failed to reach an agreement over issues including pay, class size, testing and charter schools.
Every parent knows the difference a year makes in the development and maturity of a young child.
A one-year-old is barely walking while a two-year-old gleefully sprints away from you. A four-year-old is always moving, always imagining, always asking why, while a five-year-old may start to sit and listen for longer stretches
When approved the proposed Federal Polytechnic, Daura, would be the first federal institution in Katsina North Senatorial District, according to promoters of the bill. The bill, being sponsored by Sen. Ahmed Babba-Kaita, was initiated by his immediate predecessor, Sen. Mustapha Bukar, who died early this year. Also featuring at the public hearing were bills seeking the establishment of the Federal University of Education, Aguleri, Anambra, and the National Institute of Construction Technology and Management, Uromi, Edo. They are being sponsored by Sen. Victor Umeh (Anambra Central) and Clifford Ordia (Edo Central) respectively.
Richard Appiah Akoto, a teacher at the Sekyedumase NA Junior High School in the Ashanti region of Ghana, has exhibited a passion for teaching and immense creativity by taking the initiative to provide this vital knowledge to his students, even with the simple means available to him at the time.
The success of the video showing Richard teaching ICT in front of the blackboard led multinational corporations to donate the necessary technical equipment to establish an ICT lab at his school.
UNICAF went one step further, offering the visionary teacher a full scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Education with Unicaf University, and a free tablet to facilitate online studying at all times. At UNICAF we believe that through quality education we can make our world a better place, and because we value and reward innovation, creativity and the pursuit of knowledge.
* Over 9m primary pupils benefiting in 26 states already
* Over $183million has been invested so far
* 95,422 cooks and over 100,000 smallholder farmers benefitting
He added, “it is becoming clearer that the 21st Century will be defined by knowledge and skills. The nations that are best able to present the most knowledgeable and most skilful citizens will prevail in commerce, in science and technology and of course, will enjoy the greatest prosperity and the longevity to enjoy the prosperity. Nations that do not invest enough to produce the required level of talent and skills will be left behind. A farther distance than ever before in the history of mankind.”
By the end of 2018, with the number of new States in the country joining the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, it is set to become the largest school-feeding programme in Africa, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. He stated this in Tunisia, where he delivered a keynote address at the closing ceremony of the 20th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum held at Four Seasons hotel in Tunis, stating that the programme “has been by all accounts, a remarkable success.” Speaking on the philosophy underlying the Programme, Prof Osinbajo told the 353 delegates from 9 countries, which include experts in the nutrition industry, United Nations officials from World Food Programme, Global Child Nutrition Fund, the World Bank and stakeholders that “Nigeria took the decision to embark on a school feeding programme as an important part of our human capital development agenda, by tackling the broader issues of eradication of poverty, food and nutrition security, and increasing school enrollment.”
The World Bank says it has selected Benue State to benefit from the pilot scheme to boost technical skills acquisition in the country.
A Senior Education Specialist, Dr Tuned Adekola, during a visit to Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday, said the project was in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Education.
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