UK Universities To Shutdown As Lecturers Embark On Strike
In the UK, around 70,000 employees at 150 universities will walk out over 18 days between February and March. The University College Union (UCU) reported that the strike was launched due to disagreements over wages, working conditions, and threats against pensions. Academics, librarians, and other employees are among the members who are requesting a pay increase over the 4% to 5%...
Reduce Out-Of-School Children Rate In Your Localities, FG Charges State Governors
The Federal Government has called on governors to stem the tide of rising numbers of out-of-school-children in their respective States by making substantive efforts to ensure increased access, improve quality and systems strengthening of education at all levels in the states. The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, made the call on Thursday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during...
Fatima Andat Emerges Best Graduating Student, As Covenant University Graduates 206 First Class Students
Dashe Fatima Andat from Jos with a cumulative grade point average of 5.0, a student in the Accounting Department at the College of Management and Social Sciences, was named the best-graduating student at Covenant University for the 2021/2022 session. At the Covenant University's 2021/2022 Convocation on Friday, 206 students from Ota, Ogun State, received First-Class degrees. During the 17th Convocation Ceremony...
Benue Teachers Decry Non Payment Of Salaries By Gov. Ortom For 13 Months
Teachers in Benue State say they are facing a lot of hardship due to the over 13 months of salaries owed them by the government. Our correspondent reports that some of the public primary school teachers have taken to petty trading and farming after school hours to meet some of their household needs. But, there are others who do nothing outside...
How Lagos Secondary School Students Lodge Female Colleagues For Sex Romp In Lagos
Some students of the Federal Government College, Ijaniki, Lagos State, have been caught after absconding from school to lodge female colleagues in hotels for sex romps. The students, who were all boarders, had on different occasions jumped the school’s fence with their female counterparts and stayed out of school for days. Findings by our correspondent revealed that the students involved in...
COEASU National Leadership Urges Ikpeazu To Reverse Alleged Sack Abia College of Education Union Chairman
The National leadership of COEASU, has called on the Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu to take urgent steps to ensure that the sacking of the Chairman of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) of Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (ASCETA) Comrade Egesi Onyemaechi Kevin is reversed. The body urged the governor to call...
NABTEB Still Valid For Admission, Says Education Minister
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that the National Business and Technical Examinations Board General Certificate of Education Advance Level results for 2015 to 2021 are valid. The minister noted that the results are not only valid but also usable for admission to tertiary institutions. This information is contained in the JAMBulletin, the official bulletin of the Joint...
Japa Syndrome: Ondo Polytechnic Bars Students From Unauthorised Overseas Trips
The Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State has banned the employees of the institution from travelling out of the country without the permission of the governing board of the polytechnic. The institution declared that any of its employees that flouted the order would be heavily sanctioned. The Rector of the polytechnic, Prof. Emmanuel Fasakin, disclosed this at the institution’s Christmas Carol and...
Job For Nigerian Teachers In UK | APPLY NOW
The United Kingdom Department for Education has announced that non-UK nationals can now apply to teach in schools in the UK. ABN TV reports that the announcement was made early in the month of December as seen on the UK government’s website for interested non-nationals. Nigeria has been listed as one of the countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status...
UK Welcomes Nigerian Teachers Seeking To Work Abroad
Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status through the Teaching Regulation Agency in the United Kingdom, from February 2023. Other foreign countries to which the offer extends to include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. A publication in early December on the UK government’s website, by its...
