Thousands of parents in England are struggling to get subsidised childcare as they grapple with a glitchy website eight months after it was set up.
In some cases, money meant for fees has become stuck in tax-free childcare accounts, leaving some parents unable to pay their nursery bills. Others struggled to apply for or reconfirm their free childcare. The government says that fewer than 2% of the 320,000 parents who have opened accounts had encountered problems. It added that earlier teething problems had been put right with extra resources and insists the website is running smoothly for the majority of parents. Source : BBC
Justine Greening unveils new drive to improve child literacy in England
Education secretary says schemes aim to ensure that ‘every child will get the best literacy teaching’
Phonics roadshows and English hubs are among a range of measures announced by the government in an attempt to improve child literacy.
The programmes will form part of the drive to tackle inequality and ensure “every child will get the best literacy teaching”, the education secretary, Justine Greening, has said.
The Department for Education said a £7.7m curriculum fund aimed to encourage the development of high quality teaching resources, while it was hoped a £5.7m investment would help boost literacy and numeracy skills in 469 schools around the country.
Source : theguardian
Kaduna teachers dare El-Rufai, begin indefinite strike
Teachers in public secondary and primary schools in Kaduna State on Monday began an indefinite strike action over job security and welfare issues.
The strike was called by the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT).
The government on Sunday threatened to sack any teacher that joined the strike.
In some of the schools in Kaduna metropolis only security guards were noticed in the premises as students and teachers remain at home.
At LGEA Primary School Mahuta and Unguwan Boro only security guards were at the premises while the classrooms were under lock and key.
Source : PremiumTimes
Edo Govt. okays 300 schools for New skills-based curriculum
Three hundred schools in the basic education sub-sector have been selected for the implementation of the Edo State’s new skills-oriented curriculum that will leverage on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who said this in his New Year broadcast, explained that his administration was set to implement the reforms in the educational sector starting with a pilot that includes 300 basic schools.
Source : Vanguard
Nutritionists Advocate Education, Counseling to Fight Infant Mortality
In an offer to diminish Nigeria’s high newborn child death rate, specialists have called for accentuation to be set on training and directing on the significance of sustenance for youngsters, beginning with selective bosom sustaining.
They said the majority of the passings amid early stages were connected to poor sustenance, thus the requirement for Nigerians to be educated on the significance of nourishment for their newborn children and kids.
The specialists talked as of late, amid a ‘Symposium and Convocation of Post Graduate Program in Pediatric Nutrition’, an instructive activity upheld by Nestle Nutrition Institute, in relationship with Boston University School of Medicine and Medinscribe, in Lagos.
Source : ThisDay
SNOW vs Schools…
Hundreds of schools across England and Wales have closed due to snowy weather.
More than 400 schools are shut in Wales. And in Birmingham, the city council has closed all of the schools it runs.
Hundreds more have closed in counties across huge swathes of central England as snow continues to fall.
So has it become easier to close a school?
The short answer is no. There has not been any change in the rules governing school closures.
The guidelines from the education departments in England and Wales are clear. They stress schools can close only in truly exceptional circumstances, when there is no other option.
This is because schools have to be open a set number of days a year.
However, there are no systematic central records held on how many school days are lost to poor weather each year.
Source : BBC
TSC deregisters teachers for negligence, having sex with students
The Teachers Service Commission has banned more than 41 teachers from working over misconduct.
Chief executive Nancy Macharia said the deregistered teachers will not be allowed to teach in any school in Kenya – whether it is public or private.
DEREGISTERED
Forty of the banned teachers are male.
Reasons given for their deregistration range from desertion of duty, having sexual relationships with students, insubordination, negligence, exam cheating and embezzlement.
Source :Nation
Nigerian columnist leads exceptional Nigerian researchers in the UK with a qualification
The overseeing editorial manager of The Nigerian News London, Angula Jessica drove other Nigerian individuals from her MBA class at the Coventry University to come finish with a refinement. Angula moved on from the Benue State University, Makurdi in 2013 and had enlisted among other Nigerian understudies at the Coventry University United Kingdom for her MBA in (Oil and Gas Management) in 2016. She came best of her class with a First Class in an occasion that was held at the Guild Hall, Buckingham City, London.
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UniAbuja Staff School teacher relocates to bush on hunger strike
A teacher with the University of Abuja Secondary School, Mr. Solo Anuli Obiagwu, was on hunger strike for five days over the plight of staff school teachers in the university.
Obiagwu, who claimed he was being owed for 11 months by the university, said teachers in the staff school have been subjected to serious emotional trauma so he protested “victimisation of secondary school teachers at the University of Abuja Secondary School.”
Source : Vanguard