Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Anders Einarsson, explained that in the last two decades Cowbell Milk, the company’s flagship brand, has been involved in the improvement of standard of education in the country particularly in the subject area of mathematics.
Opportunities are here again for young Nigerians who have prowess in mathematics as the search for next inventor begins. The 2018 edition of Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz show last Tuesday opened with excitement as Promasidor Nigeria Limited marked 20 years relationship of Cowbell and Mathematics.
Source: Guardian
DeVos Hits Bush, Obama on Education Policy
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos took to task previous administrations – both Democratic and Republican – for taking too heavy-handed an approach in driving education policy, resulting in stagnant academic achievement despite billions of federal dollars spent.
“Politicians from both parties just can’t help themselves,” she said. “They have talked about painting education in new colors and even broader strokes. But each time, reform has not fundamentally changed the system. Each attempt has really just been a new coat of paint on the same old wall.”
Source : USnews
Reps summon Education Minister over National HW budget
ABUJA-MEMBERS of the House of Representatives Committee in Basic Education on Wednesday summoned the Minister of Education to appear before it tomorrow, Thursday to explain the unrealistic budget presentation on the proposed national headquarters of the ministry.
Malam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education Chairman of the Committee, Rep Zakari Mohammed,APC, Kwara made this declaration during budget defence by officials of the ministry. He told the officials to come back “tomorrow with your Minister to explain how the contract to complete your headquarters was jerked up from N38bn to N78bn.
Source : Vanguard
China Promotes Online Education
The main bunch of 490 national quality courses are accessible online for people in general, as per an Educational Official on Monday.
The courses concentrated on basic educational programs for undergrad training and higher professional instruction, proficient fundamental courses, and expert center courses, said Wu Yan, leader of the Department of Higher Education with the Ministry of Education, at a public interview.
Around 70 for every penny of the 490 courses are given by China’s top of the line colleges, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Wuhan University.
Source : Pmnews
Enugu indigenes in Australia plan education trust fund for orphans
Enugu State indigenes association in Sydney, Australia at the weekend announced plans to institute an education trust fund.
Trust subsidize for motherless kids and less favored people in the state to empower them accomplish largest amount of instruction as a feature of its corporate social duties.
VP of the affiliation, Mr. Bernard Omewu, who expressed this when he drove individuals from the relationship on a visit to the Nigerian Red Cross Motherless Babies Home and Holy Child Motherless Babies Home, all in Enugu, said they were stressed in regards to the eventual fate of youngsters in the homes. The affiliation had brought a few sustenance things, child wears and money gifts to the homes.
Source : Guardianng
Finland’s education system puts the US model to shame
For one, the tiny Nordic country places considerable weight on early education. Before Finnish kids learn their times tables, they learn simply how to be kids – how to play with one another, how to mend emotional wounds.
But even as kids grow up, the country makes a concerted effort to put them on a track for success.
Here are some of the biggest ways Finland is winning in global education.
1. Competition isn’t as important as cooperation.
Finland has figured out that competition between schools doesn’t get kids as far as cooperation between those schools.
One reason for that is Finland has no private schools. Every academic institution in the country is funded through public dollars. Teachers are trained to issue their own tests instead of standardised tests.
Source : Independent
Rise in pupils caught with phones during exams…
Rising numbers of penalties are being handed out to school staff and students for exam malpractice, official figures show.
Ofqual data also showed a rise in the number of pupils taking mobile phones into tests.
New statistics reveal a 149 per cent hike in penalties issued to teachers and other workers, while the numbers for pupils rose by 25 per cent.
Malpractice covers anything that could “undermine the integrity of an exam”, according to regulator Ofqual.
Source : Independent
Four strategies for remembering everything you learn
Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge,” shares psych writer Annie Murphy Paul. “We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts.
But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself – the ‘meta-cognitive’ aspects of learning – is more hit-or-miss, and it shows.
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge:
- knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming
- knowledge about how learning actually works
Source : Independent
Edo Government to prosecute parents for denying children access to education
The Edo State Government has said it will arrest and prosecute parents and guardians, who violate the Child Rights Law, especially those who deny their children and wards access to education.
Acting Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Basic Education, Dr. Joan Oviawe addressing journalists during a tour of schools in Benin City, Edo State.
Acting Chairman of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Special Adviser to the Governor on Basic Education, Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, disclosed this during an inspection tour of schools in Benin metropolis on the first day of the academic session.
Source : Vanguard
NECO Releases November/december 2017 Result
The National Examination Council (NECO) on Tuesday released the November/December Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results with Ogun topping the chart of candidates’ performance by states with 91.42 percent.
The comparative analysis of candidates’ performance also shows that Akwa Ibom state came second with 87.97 percent, while Zamfara occupied the last position with 12.90 percent even though only 230 candidates sat for the examination from the state.
On the malpractice cases by states, Plateau came first with 21.31 percent, followed by Oyo, which has 19.97 percent.
Releasing the result, the Registrar/chief executive of NECO, Professor Charles Uwakwe said even though there was a downslide in the malpractice cases with 5.9 percent reduction compared to 2016, the Council was worried by the anomaly and was working relentlessly to address the problem.
Source : DailyTrust