Authorities of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) have announced that registration for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates, First Series (January/February), will commence on October 8, 2018. This page provides everything you need to know to successfully register for the 2019 WAEC GCE.
Intending candidates for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2018 – Second Series are hereby informed that the registration will commence on 8th October, 2018.
The WASSCE for Private Candidates. 2019 – First Series will be an urban based examination. Nineteen (19) subjects will be available for the examination. Intending candidates for the examination are therefore, strongly advised to visit the Council’s corporate website- www.waecnigeria.org- to confirm available examination towns and subjects before obtaining the registration PIN.
Candidates should also note that the 2018 WAEC GCE registration procedure has been designed to accommodate biometric features that will be used for validation at the examination centres.
NUT wants teachers’ retirement age at 65
The Nigerian Union of Teachers has called on the Federal Government to review teacher’s retirement age in the country to 65 years.
The NUT President, Mr Muhammed Idris, stated this in Abuja on Thursday at a news conference to mark the 2018 World Teachers’ Day, calling for a review from the present 60 years.
The theme of the conference was, “The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher.”
The NUT president, who noted that it was important retain qualified and experienced teachers in the system, called for an urgent review of retiring teachers annually without providing corresponding recruitments to fill the vacant positions.
13.2 million Nigerian children now out-of-school –UBEC
The Universal Basic Education Commission has said that the population of Nigeria’s out-of-school children has increased from 10.5 million to at 13.2 million.
The UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hammid Bobboyi, stated this in Abuja on Thursday during a United Nations Children’s Fund briefing on out-of-school children.
Bobboyi, who was represented by the Director of Social Mobilisation, Bello Kaigara, said the 2015 Demographic Health Survey had confirmed the development.
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.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/asuu-rejects-introduction-of-education-banks-supports-minimum-wage/
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.
NUNS vs FG
Covenant University joins global ranked universities.
The ranking platform also says Covenant University has had a rapid rise in reputation in the decade and a half it has been operating. The Nigerian Universities Commission named it the best private university in Nigeria in its 2018 rankings and the 6th best university overall.
Profiling the institution on its website, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings describes the school as one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian Mission Ethos.
Earlier in February 2018, Webometrics, another university ranking website rated Covenant University as the second best university in Nigeria.
ASUU threatens FG
The National President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to him, no meaningful development will be achieved if government fails to put issues concerning education on the front burner for global reckoning and competitiveness.
Free education for girls in Kaduna public schools
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the full implementation of free education for female students in the state’s public secondary schools to improve girl-child education.
According to the commissioner, 191,445 female students currently in Kaduna public schools will immediately benefit from the government’s new directive which will cost it N143 million every term and N430 million annually.
The commissioner said the government’s decision will remove any hindrance to girls acquiring quality education as they make up a majority of the over 10 million out-of-school children in the country.
Kaduna Govt recruits PhD holder as primary school teacher
Sani said the exercise marked the completion of the 25,000 vacancy announced after the sack of the 22,000 unqualified teachers in the state in January, this year.
The Commissioner also noted that in addition to the PhD holder, 8,494 of the 25,000 recruited teachers were first degree holders while the remaining were National Certificate in Education holders.
Addressing news conference in Kaduna on Saturday, Sani also announced that the state had commenced full implementation of free education for girls in the public secondary schools across the state.