Teacher Gets Full UNICAF Scholarship


ghana-teacher-gets-full-UNICAF-scholarshipRichard Appiah Akoto, a teacher at the Sekyedumase NA Junior High School in the Ashanti region of Ghana, has exhibited a passion for teaching and immense creativity by taking the initiative to provide this vital knowledge to his students, even with the simple means available to him at the time.

The success of the video showing Richard teaching ICT in front of the blackboard led multinational corporations to donate the necessary technical equipment to establish an ICT lab at his school.

UNICAF went one step further, offering the visionary teacher a full scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Education with Unicaf University, and a free tablet to facilitate online studying at all times. At UNICAF we believe that through quality education we can make our world a better place, and because we value and reward innovation, creativity and the pursuit of knowledge.

Cowbellpedia Teachers of the Year award


Kehinde Oludare and Oluwaseun Makinde have emerged winners of the Teachers’ edition of Cowbellpedia Mathematics Quiz Show.

The event, which was part of the activities organised to mark the 2018 World Teachers Day, saw 12 teachers whose pupils made it to the finals of the 2017 edition of the competition compete for the best in both categories.

Expressing his appreciation to the organisers of the contest, Oludare of Bibo Oluwa Academy, Ilesha, Osun State, who  emerged best in the senior category, said, “Beyond passion, Mathematics teachers must have hunger to teach the subject. Initiatives like this have helped to stimulate the interest of pupils and teachers in the subject.

Kaduna Govt recruits PhD holder as primary school teacher


The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology,  Mallam Ja’afaru Sani, said the government has recruited additional 13,606 qualified primary school teachers, including a PhD holder in the state.

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.

Experts caution schools on teachers’ recruitment


Image result for sexual predatorsEnugu State Police Command arrested the head teacher of a primary school in the Enugu-Ezike area of the state, Mr Nathaniel Idoko, for defiling four female pupils between the ages of five and six. Idoko blamed his crime on ‘Satan’.

From 2013 to date, there have been at least 19 reported cases of teachers sexually assaulting their pupils. A total of 39 pupils; 35 girls and five boys, across eight states were raped, ‘fingered’ or sodomised. One of the predators had defiled as many as seven girls. News reports claimed that one of the victims was even infected with a sexually transmitted disease.

The children, aged between two and 14 years at the time, were pupils of private schools, except one public school in Epe, Lagos State. Most of the incidents took place in the schools’ premises, save for two occuring in either the victim’s residence or that of the accused.

Teacher treks 42km to school daily, honoured with standing fan


A teacher who walks 42km to school has been rewarded with a standing fan, in appreciation of his dedicated service.

Awudu Kombian, who teaches at Warvi D/A Primary School, Ghana, received the gift at the parade to mark Ghana’s 61st Independence, which held on Tuesday.

Apart from travelling such a long distance, Kombian was the only teacher in the school, and also doubled as the headmaster until recently when three teachers were posted to the school.

The school, which has a population of about 74 pupils with three classrooms, was solely taken care of by Kombian for more than a year.

As a headmaster, he performed other tasks and so the school was always closed down whenever he fell ill or travelled.

Full article : http://punchng.com/teacher-walks-42km-to-school-daily-honoured-with-standing-fan/

Educational support for deaf children in England ‘in complete disarray’


A deaf pupil with a specialist teacher

 A deaf pupil with a specialist teacher. In some areas, there is just one specialist teacher for every 100 students. Photograph: Brian Mitchell / Alamy/Alamy

A report by the Consortium for Research into Deaf Education says the number of teachers of the deaf has been cut by 14% in the past seven years, at the same time as a 31% increase in the number of children requiring support.

In some areas the situation is so critical there is just one specialist teacher for every 100 students. Without intervention, researchers say the crisis is likely to worsen, with many existing staff close to retirement.

Source : Guardian

TSC deregisters teachers for negligence, having sex with students


Teachers Service Commission CEO Nancy Macharia.

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.

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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

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