Pupils at Eton College have been banned from using smartphones, laptops and tablets in their rooms after bedtime because of fears their addiction to social media is leaving them sleep-deprived.
The £38,700-a-year boarding school has told all 13-year-olds to hand over their electronic devices to their housemasters before they go to bed at 9.30pm.
The measure was introduced by headmaster Simon Henderson, who said lost sleep could harm pupil’s ability to concentrate in lessons and, damage academic performance.
Source : Dailymail
EDO STATE EMERGE WINNERS OF LAFARGE NATIONAL LITERACY COMPETITION
Edo state has risen champs of the 2017 Lafarge National Literacy Competition. 11 year old Yusuf Hassan and 10-year old Faith Toun-Agbai from Edo state developed champs in the definitely challenged finals.
Alternate finalists were Plateau, Anambra, Ondo, Kano and Gombe. Ondo state took the second prize while Kano and Gombe developed third and fourth separately.
Oby Ezekwesili, previous Minister of Education while conveying a keynote address at the occasion complimented Lafarge for concentrating the activity on open elementary schools the nation over.
Source : Businessandeducation
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), 
Dr. Maikanti Baru, has expressed the commitment of the Corporation to science education. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru.
The NNPC GMD who stated this during the grand finale of the Corporation’s 2017 National Quiz Competition Tuesday in Abuja, said the Corporation’s stand was informed by the critical role of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the quest for nation building.
Source: Vanguard
Britain’s 4-year-old political influencer
When I meet Scottish comic Mark Nelson, he is depleted. Doing the school run, as usual, there was a morning dramatization, and his stubborn, four-year-old little girl Isla was at its focal point.
“I needed to berate her for yelling at her gran,” he moans, shaking his head. “She was securing the dishes and Isla was advising her, ‘the glasses don’t go in that drawer, they go in the other one’. She was legitimately hollering at her and I resembled, ‘you can’t do that. It’s your gran.'”
Source : Telegraph
Change begins with Education – Adamu Adamu
It is with extraordinary regard and appreciation that I respect His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to this vital Presidential Retreat on Education for Ministers.
Your Excellency, your essence at this critical and memorable occasion is a showing of initiative and your own responsibility regarding training and the enthusiasm and duty of this organization to renew our instruction division and build up the country’s human capital.
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JAMB fixes dates for 2018 examination
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Wednesday morning that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2018 would hang on March 9 to March 17, 2018.
The JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, reported this amid a continuous partners’ meeting, saying that the dates were picked “taking into perception the dates of other open examinations.”
The board said the ridicule examination would hold between January 22 and 27, including that the application charge remained N5000.
Source : Punch
Lagos orders relocation of 64 private schools
Ex-Officio, League of Muslim School Proprietors in Lagos State, Sulaimon Anthonio (left); Chairman, Fatai Raheem; Guest Speaker and Director General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Ronke Soyombo; and others at the LEAMSP’s school managers’ workshop.
The Lagos State government has directed 64 private primary and secondary schools to relocate because of their alleged non-conduciveness for human and educational activities. The number is from over 6,000 private schools operating across the state.
The Director-General, Office of Quality Assurance, Mrs. Ronke Soyombo who disclosed this at the annual school managers’ workshop organised by the League of Muslim School Proprietors (LEAMSP) in Ikeja, recently.
Soyombo said the affected schools were operating in either swampy or flooding areas or very dirty and poorly ventilated structures as well as in places totally unsafe for human beings.
Private universities provide quality education?
Most private colleges in Nigeria can contend positively with their companions abroad on the grounds that they concentrate on giving quality instruction to their understudies, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, Mrs Fatima Jiddum, has said.
She made the comment at a workshop titled ‘Private University and its Place in Nation Building; Standards, Qualities and Expectations’, sorted out by Nile University of Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday.
Source : Dailytrust
PEMBROKE TUTORS in partnership with TutorMavens : DECEMBER REVISION SCHOOL
Here are five reasons many Nigerians don’t do well in IELTS.
1. A few people accept since it is English, it is a certain pass. They get to exam lobbies and understand the need to plan. It is typically past the point of no return. Regardless of how great you will be, you have to get ready.
2. Many individuals think maybe a couple months planning is sufficient. It might be, however it relies upon you. Your general information of English issues. Planning for the test isn’t tantamount to creating yourself. On the off chance that your English is poor, crash arrangement can’t win you a high band. You have to deal with your English by and large.
3. Local speakers of English are normally incoherent to Nigerians. This is mostly because of their fast discourse and the idea of English as an anxiety designed dialect. Many individuals don’t do well in IELTS listening since they do not have the capacity to comprehend what local speakers articulate. Subsequently, when you watch English movies, focus on how words are articulated. Don’t simply hear BBC news; hear it out.
Source : Naij