Educational

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Monday fixed Sept. 10 as the deadline for the registration of schools and examination candidates for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).   A statement by the Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Prof. ...

Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, are to resume in batches beginning from September, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, disclosed this on Monday.   Speaking on a radio interview monitored in Lagos, he explained that 400, ...

Pupils who pretend to cough at UK schools  could be sent home when the new term starts this week.   At least two schools have warned students they will be excluded if they cough or sneeze deliberately at someone else. ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered full resumption of tertiary institutions across Lagos State on Monday, September 14, after about six months shutdown occasioned by the outbreak of ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.   Sanwo-Olu, however, fixed a tentative resumption date for primary ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, has directed all tertiary institutions under the state government to reopen.   The institutions were shut indefinitely in March to check the spread of COVID-19. But at a briefing on Saturday, the governor asked them ...

Authorities of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, (AAUA) Ondo State has announced the downward review of the tuition fees of its students.   A circular, dated August 26, 2020, issued by the institution’s Acting Registrar and Secretary to the ...

Head, West African Examination Council (WAEC), Mr Patrick Areghan, has given updates on candidates infected with the COVID-19.   Areghan advised students battling COVID-19 and writing the ongoing examinations not to panic, saying the virus is not a death sentence. ...

Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure women’s rights campaigners said would help tackle gender inequality in the classroom and stop many girls from dropping out of school.   A legal amendment ...

  The Senate of the University of Lagos has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as its Acting Vice-Chancellor. The senate gathered this morning August 24 to elect an acting VC.   The Presidency over the weekend asked the Chancellor of the ...

Head of National Office, West Africa Examination Council, Patrick Areghan, said the body arrested some of its supervisors who revealed questions to candidates before the commencement of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination.   Areghan, who spoke during a ...

Some public secondary schools in Imo State are reportedly charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, SaharaReporters claim in a new report.The school owners met with ...

Singer and songwriter, Simi has questioned while formal education is still important as many who go to school come out, forget what they were taught and “end up doing something else with their lives.”   According to her, the “educational ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana said late Sunday that tertiary schools will reopen on Aug. 24 for students who have yet to complete the academic year.   The government will put in place necessary preventive measures to allow ...

The Senate of the University of Lagos on Thursday gave its backing to Vice Chancellor Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, whose sack was announced by the Governing Council on Tuesday.   Unions in the university  —  the Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

Osun State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode has disclosed that Osun state will revert to the 6-3-3-4 educational system.   The decision was taken following recommendations of the Education Review White Paper on the restructuring and ...

Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has insisted that he remains the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).   This is coming after Ogundipe’s removal was announced during the meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National ...

Students in Senior Secondary Schools Three in Ekiti State resumed on Monday for the commencement of West African Senior School Certificate Examinations. The state government on Monday announced the suspension of a school principal who was not available in the ...

The National Examinations Council has released the date and guidelines for the conduct of its 2020 examinations. This was contained in a press statement titled, “Making the Conduct Of Public Examinations Work in the COVID-19 Era”, by the NECO Registrar/Chief ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has shifted the commencement of 2020 admissions into tertiary institutions to September. To this end, the board said post- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) screening for the 2020 admission processes will now begin ...

Ninety-seven thousand US children tested positive for coronavirus in the second half of July – weeks before schools and universities reopen. The figures, taken from the American Academy of Pediatrics from July 16 to 30, come as the country tops ...

Some Ghanaian students taking the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have rioted over the strict invigilation during the tests. According to news agency report, some agitated WASSCE candidates at the Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School (SHS) in south ...

The Lagos State Government has directed Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3 students who are registered for National Examination Council (NECO) Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to resume on Monday. Recall that an earlier pronouncement issued by the state had directed ...

The chairmanship election of the Nigerian Medical Association, Enugu branch yesterday evening turned bloody as thugs invaded the venue and scatted the whole process. The thugs are believed to have been hired by a faction of the body.   Members ...

There was no resumption of schools in Enugu State yesterday, as some students who had gone to their schools in anticipation of the reopening, were sent back home on the orders of the state government. It was learnt that they ...

The Federal Government has begun the construction of the 27.3-kilometre perimeter fence for the University of Maiduguri to check incessant attacks by Boko Haram terrorists. The project, which is valued at N64bn, is to stop the terrorists who have been ...