The university admissions service Ucas is under pressure after an investigation revealed that more than half of all applications flagged for possible fraud are from black students.
Ucas researchers found that over a five-year period 52% of applications investigated for potential fraudulent activity were from black candidates, even though they only make up 9% of total applications.
In contrast, over the same period – between 2013 and 2017 – just 19% of all suspicious applications were from white students, even though they make up 73% of all applications. Asian students made up 11% of applicants and 16% of those flagged.
Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/31/ucas-criticised-over-screening-of-black-applicants
Teaching children without play was soul-destroying
To a child, play is serious work and the motivation to learn is intrinsic
One year, during Sats preparation, I watched as a number of my year 2 students cried because the paper was too difficult. I told them not to worry and to just try their best, but inside I felt dreadful. I knew that no matter how hard they cried, I would force them to continue. I’ve been a teacher for five years and I love working with children. But I’ve realised I don’t want to teach them any more.
Ambode gives scholarship, N5m cash reward to best LASU graduating student
During the 22nd Convocation Ceremony of LASU at the University Auditorium Complex, Ojo, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
Adetoro, who is of the Faculty of Management Sciences, was announced as the best graduating student at the 22nd convocation ceremony held at the Auditorium Complex of the University in Ojo having scored CGPA 4.78.
Responding to Adetoro’s request for scholarship to go for masters’ study outside the country, Governor Ambode said he would personally finance the student’s education in any university of his choice anywhere in the world. “In response to the best graduating student’s request, Lagos State Government does not generally give scholarship anymore but only bursary. So, I adopt him.
Full article: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/05/ambode-gives-scholarship-n5m-cash-reward-best-lasu-graduating-student/
Academic and Leadership Camp
Pembroke Tutors will be returning to Lagos to provide expert tuition and skills-based workshops which focus on leadership and development.
Older students will be offered university admissions workshops.
We will be in Lagos for two weeks: students can choose to complete either one week (self-contained) or the full two week programme.
Northern govs will sack teachers after winning 2019 election – El Rufai
Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has said that the educational reform, which took place in Kaduna, will also be carried out in other northern states after the 2019 elections.
It would be recalled that the Kaduna State Government sacked about 22,000 teachers for incompetency in 2017, as part of the efforts to reform the education sector in the state. The action had attracted much criticism from various quarters in the sector.
El Rufai, who was the guest lecturer at the 4th Distinguished Guest Lecture of the University of Medical Science, Ondo town, Ondo State, said the decision to sack incompetent teachers was taken by all the northern state governors, but most of them could not carry it out for the fear of losing the next governorship election scheduled for 2019.
Full Article : http://punchng.com/northern-govs-will-sack-teachers-after-winning-2019-election-el-rufai/
Current population of teachers not enough for schools – Minister
The Minister of Education, Adamu has described the population of teachers currently engaged in the education sector as grossly inadequate.
Adamu stated this during a recent teaching and learning conference organised by the African Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities and the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria in Abuja.
The minister said Nigeria had been projected to be among the world’s 10 most populous countries by 2050 and, therefore, there must be plans to review and sustain the education system to cope with the anticipated population.
Full Article : http://punchng.com/current-population-of-teachers-not-enough-for-schools-minister/
FG begins audit of schools nationwide
The Federal Government, through the Universal Basic Education Commission, has said that it will commence the audit of pupils and teaching personnel in public and private-owned schools nationwide so as to collect data for the purpose of policy planning and implementation.
The UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, who stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Thursday, also said the audit of the teaching personnel in schools would begin by April 29 in the southern states and June 3 in the northern states.
Bobboyi noted that the exercise was aimed at collating reliable data for the national databank in line with the Nigeria’s Education Management Information System policy.
Full Article : http://www.punchng.com/fg-begins-audit-of-schools-nationwide/
Indigenous languages can’t stop children from becoming successful
A university teacher and writer, Prof. Oladejo Afolayan, and the Commissioner for Education in Osun State, Mr. Kola Omotunde-Young, have called on parents and teachers to communicate with their children in indigenous Nigerian languages.Addressing students at the third book fair organised by Joyous Innovations Sixty Seven, held at the Osogbo Government High School, Osogbo on Wednesday, Afolayan and Omotunde-Young said that most of the highly successful persons around the world first learnt to speak their mother-tongues.
Full article : http://www.punchng.com/indigenous-languages-cant-stop-children-from-becoming-successful/
Dangote Foundation donates secondary school in Lagos worth N120m
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dangote Group, said he has plans to implement a scholarship programme for less privileged children in the state.
The Dangote Foundation said it has donated a well-equipped secondary school in Lagos valued at N120 million as part of its interventionist programme to boost education. The foundation has also offered annual free tuition to 250 indigent pupils. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, said this at the inauguration and handing over of the school with well-equipped laboratories to Nawair-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College, Idi-Oro, Mushin, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
In a statement signed by Tony Chiejina, the head of communications of the group, Dangote said: “Aliko Dangote Foundation started in 1993 with the principle of `to whom much is given, much is expected’ and looking at the less privileged ones among us have compelled the foundation to provide some reliefs.
Federal Government has approved the Cisco Networking Academy Programme
The Federal Government has approved the Cisco Networking Academy Programme to be run in unity schools just as it also approved the establishment of six Internet of Things (IoT) innovation centres across federal unity colleges in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.
The approval routed through the Federal Ministry of Education, is possibly government’s strong statement towards entrenching sound Information and Communications Technology, ICT learning in primary, secondary and tertiary education in the country.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who made the announcement at the official opening and inauguration of one of the Innovation Centres at Queen’s College, Lagos, said government has discovered that qualitative education in the modern world is intrinsically tied to the development and deployment of ICT in education.
Full Article : https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/ict-education-fg-establishes-six-iot-innovation-centres-nigeria/