http://www.webremixed.info/ Aggregation of tags: education Webremixer http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060693.html Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state, has been most unfortunately and erroneously portrayed by critics as a non-performer simply because of his penchant for trips overseas primarily to woo foreign investments to his state. Fortunately such pedestrian misconception emanating mainly from his detractors who are hell bent to pull him down at all cost and by all means appears to have been debunked as Yuguda's name will now be written with a golden ink as a leader who, in spite of all odds firmly planted against him, has succeeded in putting Bauchi state solidly into the 21st century with the unprecedented records of achievements to his credit within few months in office. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:33:46 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060693.html 2009-01-06T17:33:46Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060656.html Angolan youths have been called to engage in studies, taking advantage of the schools and professional training centres that exist countrywide, ANGOP has learnt. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:36 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060656.html 2009-01-06T16:00:36Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060530.html Jigawa State Government will henceforth be sponsoring 100 best secondary graduating science students to study in the United Kingdom every year, Governor Sule Lamido, has said. Governor Lamido who disclosed this during the end of year session with journalists in the state at the weekend, said it is part of his administration strategy to reposition the educational sector in the state, adding that it is the responsibility of government to provide quality education for the younger generation. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:12:22 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060530.html 2009-01-06T11:12:22Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060477.html Edo State government in collaboration with the Centre for Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto is hosting the 23rd edition of Qur'anic Recitation Competition slated for 9 - 13th January, 2009 at the Sports Pavilion, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:41:04 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060477.html 2009-01-06T10:41:04Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060447.html THE General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Nigeria Army, Enugu, Major General Adamu Ibrahim yesterday commissioned newly constructed 14 classroom -- one storey building at the Command Day Secondary School, Enugu with an assurance that the army would continue to support the development of education in the country. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:18:30 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060447.html 2009-01-06T10:18:30Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060261.html Undoubtedly, there has been several attempts to effectively address the knowledge and skills deficit in the healthcare workforce in the country. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:51:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060261.html 2009-01-06T08:51:20Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060207.html The 55th National Council on Education (NCE) has opened in abuja with a call for renewed commitment to restoring the education system for global competitiveness. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:32:29 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060207.html 2009-01-06T08:32:29Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060148.html The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has sued the Federal Government over the failure of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to reconstitute the Governing Councils of federal universities, which were dissolved on October 23, 2007. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:14:57 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060148.html 2009-01-06T08:14:57Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060081.html THE large jump in the number of matriculants who passed mathematics at a level roughly equivalent to an old higher-grade pass is causing concern. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:07:52 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060081.html 2009-01-06T07:07:52Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060078.html ONE of the larger questions hanging over the new matric curriculum - written for the first time last year - is how those who passed mathematics well enough to study university-level courses that require the subject will fare this year. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:07:49 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060078.html 2009-01-06T07:07:49Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060055.html ANXIETY has gripped prospective Form One pupils who sat for Grade 7 examinations last year with Zimsec failing to give exact dates for the release of results ahead of the first term that begins next Tuesday. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:05:07 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060055.html 2009-01-06T07:05:07Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060038.html MAKERERE University Council has started searching for a new vice-chancellor to replace Prof. Livingstone Luboobi whose contract expires on May 31. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:53:33 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060038.html 2009-01-06T06:53:33Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060021.html GOVERNMENT is still considering fee applications submitted by schools and will tomorrow announce its position regarding the charging of the fees in foreign currency. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:48:54 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901060021.html 2009-01-06T06:48:54Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050987.html Sokoto State Government has spent N189 million on the rehabilitation of three secondary schools in the state. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:43:28 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050987.html 2009-01-05T11:43:28Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050910.html Kogi State Government has said it would establish additional science secondary schools to the existing 18 and employ more qualified teachers to help salvage the declining quality of education. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:29:45 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050910.html 2009-01-05T11:29:45Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050817.html Despite coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, pupils at a Khayelitsha school specialising in maths and science clinched a 100 percent matric pass rate. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:54:42 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050817.html 2009-01-05T10:54:42Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050712.html The nationwide strike by Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), scheduled to begin today has been shelved, following a tripartite meeting held weekend, by ASUP executives, Minister of Education, Dr Sam Egwu and Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Dr Nuru Yakubu.THISDAY gathered that Egwu had requested the union to give government six months to examine its demands. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:41:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050712.html 2009-01-05T10:41:20Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050663.html Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Mr Koichiro Matsuura, arrives Nigeria today on a four-day visit that will take him to Abuja, Lagos and Abeokuta. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:32:28 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050663.html 2009-01-05T10:32:28Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050237.html Emile Nsegiyumva, a 19 year old student in Gabiro high school in the Gatsibo district early this week returned to Rwanda after a three-week tour of the United States. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:34:45 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050237.html 2009-01-05T08:34:45Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050175.html As part of its effort to ensure the provision of qualitative education in Kano State , the state government has employed 1000 teachers. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:06:55 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050175.html 2009-01-05T08:06:55Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050166.html The education network will be reinforced in this school year with opening of 21 new technical schools in various provinces of the country, in the ambit of expanding the teaching implemented by the Government since 2007. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:53:49 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050166.html 2009-01-05T07:53:49Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050114.html CHF International, a non-profit humanitarian aid organisation, has donated school materials to at least 34,000 orphans and vulnerable children ahead of the beginning of the academic year. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:09:22 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050114.html 2009-01-05T07:09:22Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050108.html Rwandan students from various universities and other institutions of higher learning outside the country yesterday completed a ten-day civic education training popularly known as Ingando. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:09:17 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050108.html 2009-01-05T07:09:17Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050098.html MAKERERE University has received $10,000 (about sh19m) to train women entrepreneurs. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:05:53 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050098.html 2009-01-05T07:05:53Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050097.html THE Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results are scheduled to be released next week, Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) said on Friday. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:05:52 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050097.html 2009-01-05T07:05:52Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050040.html WHILE we understand that, with the introduction of the Foreign Exchange Licensed Warehouses and Shops, most products and services can only be accessed using hard currency, and that to be viable, schools have to charge fees in hard currency, we feel there is need to strike a balance between school viability and access to education. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:33:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901050040.html 2009-01-05T06:33:20Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020792.html Mereb Construction Company implemented major development and reconstruction projects worth about 200 million Nakfa over the past couple of years, according to Lt. Colonel Haile Mesfin, manager of the company. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:19:55 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020792.html 2009-01-02T17:19:55Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020691.html The erstwhile serene city of Jos made famous by its attractive weather has been turned into a hotbed of ethno-religious conflagration with heavy tolls in both lives and property. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:26:34 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020691.html 2009-01-02T11:26:34Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020685.html Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, has vowed to embark on far-reaching changes that would turn around Nigeria's troubled education sector. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:26:27 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020685.html 2009-01-02T11:26:27Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020621.html Anambra State government has announced immediate return of 18 schools to its owners. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:07:33 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020621.html 2009-01-02T11:07:33Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020587.html ANAMBRA State government has returned 18 secondary schools originally built by Churches to them as part of the state government's determination to strengthen its partnership with non-governmental organizations. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:55:20 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020587.html 2009-01-02T10:55:20Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020585.html The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, FCT, has approved a new public relations policy authorising only the Chief Medical Director (CMD) to speak to the press. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:55:18 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020585.html 2009-01-02T10:55:18Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020526.html An Abuja-based Muslim cleric has called on Muslims in the country to educate their children, especially the female ones, in order to eradicate poverty from the society. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:32:09 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020526.html 2009-01-02T10:32:09Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020510.html Prominent among the reasons for poor implementation of the various initiatives that have been introduced for the purpose of rejuvenating the nation's education system is unsustainable funding. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:41 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020510.html 2009-01-02T10:13:41Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020508.html The on-going efforts at instilling in Nigerian students skills and competencies relevant to the economic and technological development of the country received a big boost with the donation of N5 million worth Auto-card Computer Assisted Design and Drafting equipment (CADD) to Yaba College of Technology by Chevron Nigeria Limited last Monday. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:39 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020508.html 2009-01-02T10:13:39Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020507.html The nation's educational system equips students only with explicit knowledge which exposes students to learning by rote without necessarily leading to the acquisition of skills badly needed for production processes. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:38 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020507.html 2009-01-02T10:13:38Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020502.html The Danja Local Government Council in Katsina has employed 103 graduates as casual teachers and posted them to primary schools.The Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Balarabe, stated this last year in Danja while briefing newsmen on the achievements of the council in the past eight months. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:33 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020502.html 2009-01-02T10:13:33Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020500.html As 2008 rolled away, the year will be remembered for the turbulence, turmoil, upheaval, neglect and stagnation that characterised education sector. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:30 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020500.html 2009-01-02T10:13:30Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020480.html Influential historian and acclaimed scholar Professor Merid W. Aregay passed away yesterday at the age of 74 at the Black Lion Hospital where he was being treated for his illness the past month, sources told The Daily Monitor. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:00:12 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020480.html 2009-01-02T10:00:12Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020475.html The Ukrainian government has commenced moves to partner with the federal government in the area of human resource development with a view to reducing the problem of unemployment in Africa, just as its ambassador in Nigeria recently commissioned the Oyo main Campus of the African Maritime Academy. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:59:57 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020475.html 2009-01-02T09:59:57Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020434.html The Sokoto State government has donated a set of computer to each of the 15 students from the state studying at the Nigerian Law School, Bwari, Abuja. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:53:58 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020434.html 2009-01-02T09:53:58Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020431.html Niger State government has concluded plans to partner with University of Ilorin in the area of admission. This was disclosed by the state governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu when he received a dele-gation from the university who came on an appreciation visit to the Government House, Minna on Wednesday. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:52:42 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020431.html 2009-01-02T09:52:42Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020417.html Anambra State government has announced the immediate return of schools to its owners. Some of the school immediately handed over in the first phase of the exercise are: Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha; Girls Secondary School, Onitsha; Christ the King College, Onitsha; Queen of the Rosary Collage, Onitsha; Mater Amabilis Secondary School, Umuoji; Girls Secondary School, Umudioka; St. Peters Secondary School, Achina; All Saints Secondary School, Umuneze; Girls Secondary School, Ozubulu; Girls Secocndary School, Nnewi; Boys Secondary School, Oraifite; Comprehensive Secondary School, Nawfia and Girls Secondary School, Awka; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:51:37 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020417.html 2009-01-02T09:51:37Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020404.html Sokoto State government has presented laptop computer sets worth about N2 million to 15 of its indigenes studying at the Nigerian Law School. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:40 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020404.html 2009-01-02T09:45:40Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020395.html Kwali Area Council has budgeted N10m for scholarship to assist less privileged indigent students in various tertiary institutions across the country. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:17 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020395.html 2009-01-02T09:45:17Z http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020394.html Danja local council in Katsina state has recruited 103 ad hoc teachers to boost its teaching staff in both primary and secondary schools in the area. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:16 GMT http://allafrica.com/stories/200901020394.html 2009-01-02T09:45:16Z