News: Education

If the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.

[Zimbabwe Independent] IN this 21st instalment we find it even more opportune to engage and exhort the State and other key stakeholders to take the initiative to introduce intellectual property (IP) matters in our education and training curricula.

[New Era] Oshakati - Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) donated computer equipment and a printer to three schools in Omusati Region.

[Leadership] A whopping sum of over N50 million meant for the universal basic education was not accessed by the various state governments until recently, the minister of state for education, Mr. Nyesom Wike has disclosed.

[Nairobi Star] TEACHERS want a 300 per cent salary increment to be factored into the next budget, Knut said yesterday.

[Nairobi Star] KABUNGE Primary School in Lari district has become fully operational after three years of political wrangles between area MP David Njuguna and some aspirants who were against the school's construction.

[Cameroon Tribune] March past and music rehearsals preoccupy most schools. The third session of the Organizing Committee of the 46th National Youth Day in the Littoral, placed under the auspices of the Governor Fai Yengo Francis, met in Douala yesterday, February 2. The official launch of the national event in the Littoral will take place in Douala V Subdivision on Saturday, February 4. Inventions by young people will be on exhibition during the official launch.

[Daily Champion] Abuja - NIGERIA Labour Congress NLC yesterday commended the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU for suspending their strike embarked upon to press home their demands, but warned government against breaching the terms of agreement on which the strike was suspended.

[Business Daily] The government will allocate funds in the next Budget to hire more teachers as shortage remains one of the main of hurdles to quality education.

[Vanguard] Warri - PLACARD-CARRYING students of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Ugbomro, Delta Delta, yesterday, protested the non-accreditation of degree programmes offered by the institution since it was established.

[Nairobi Star] Tetu MP Francis Nyammo has faulted the government over the criteria used in the form one selection.

[Namibian] THE presence of community policing officers at some Windhoek schools has led to a reduction of behavioural problems and crime around schools.

[Vanguard] Lagos - As universities in the country resumed for academic activities, Thursday, after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, called off its 59 days strike, chairperson of ASUU LASU chapter, Dr Jamiyu Oluwatoki, confirmed that lectures in the university have resumed at their duty post.

[Vanguard] Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa'i, Thursday, assured that the federal government would henceforth endeavour to fulfill every agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of the Universities, ASUU.

[Daily Trust] The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday queried Minister of Foreign Affairs Olugbenga Ashiru for allocating about N5 billion as school fees for children of the ministry's staff in foreign missions.

[Daily Trust] Kaduna - The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, yesterday complied with the directive of the national body of the union to end its strike.

[Daily Trust] Yola - The Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) yesterday in Yola launched a special scheme to discourage primary school teachers in the state from rural-urban drift.

[Daily Trust] Gusau - Emir of Anka and Chairman Zamfara State Council of Emirs Attahiru Muhammad Ahmad has advised states in the North to declare state of emergency on the education sector as a way of saving it from collapse.

[Daily Trust] Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday commended the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government for resolving a dispute that saw lecturers boycotting classes for two month, just as it called on government to fulfil the terms reached.