The Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, has sworn in Badamasi Lawal Charanchi as the new Commissioner of Education.
Swearing in of the new commissioner is an effort to address the lingering decay of the public education sector in Katsina state.
The state governor charged him to change the culture of the huge idle manpower at the education ministry.
Until his appointment, Charanchi was the special adviser to the governor on higher education.
Source : Channels
Govt alone cannot fund education in Nigeria – Senate
The Senate Joint Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) and Health on Monday in Abuja called for increased private sector participation in the education sector.
Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko made the call during a public hearing to investigate the outbreak of epidemic which affected 39 students and led to the death of three students of Queens College, Lagos in 2017.
He said: “It is so sad that we believe that government alone should take full responsibility of education in the country.
“The society particularly the private sector has a role to play to make the education sector grow.
Source : Dailypost
Parents and guardians to place high premium on the education
Obi Nkebakwu spoke at a send-forth in honour of the immediate past head teacher of Ojeokpa Primary School in UgbobaCommunity, Mrs. Phidelia Oseafiana, at the school premises.
TRADITIONAL ruler of Ugboba Kingdom in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, His Royal Majesty, Obi Ezedimbu Nkebakwu III, has called on parents and guardians in the state to place high premium on the education of their children and wards.He noted that the call became imperative as education was a global tool needed to enhance the sustainable socio-economic development of any society, adding that education was a worthy legacy that parents and guardians should bequeath to their children and wards.
Source : Vanguard
Nestle collaborates with Didier Drogba on education
Didier Drogba Foundation, in collaboration with Nestle and International Cocoa Initiative, has announced the opening of its first school in Pokou-Kouamekro, Côte d’Ivoire.
According to a statement from the firm, the school will accommodate 350 children and grant them access to quality education, thus limiting the chances of them engaging in child labour on cocoa farms.
Source : Punch
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
Administrator Calls For Huge Investments In Education
Governmental issues
An individual from the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Segun Olulade, has called for enormous interests in training to light up the eventual fate of the more youthful age and the nation.
Olulade, speaking to Epe Constituency II at the Assembly made the supplication at a lunch get-together he sorted out of appreciation for 324 splendid understudies in 2016/2017 scholarly session crosswise over open grade schools in the electorate.
As indicated by him, endeavors must be made to empower students and educators so as to propel the training part and quicken national development and advancement.
“It took eight years of my life before I went to the university. I am catching them young and giving them a direction from the beginning, and this is a thing of joy for me.
“We should understand that every child is ours. We cannot just train our own children and leave others,’’ Olulade said.
According to him, there are some families who cannot afford to send their children or their wards to public schools, not to talk of private schools.
Source : Pmnews
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