News: Education

14 secondary students from undisclosed schools have been discovered that after they failed their exams, they went to neighbouring Uganda and bought forged academic papers.

Primary and secondary schools are to adopt a digitalised curriculum to enhance the memorability of learning materials.

A fire has gutted Lira High Nursery and Primary School in Lira District. This brings the number of school fires since April to 35, the Police said on Friday.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it would sustain all its programmes and policies geared towards enhancing the standard of education.

I WON'T know how to begin. It is a story that is a hundred years old. I was not there then and I won't be there when she celebrates her bi-centenary. Precisely on July 16, the acorn that grew to an oak was sown.

THE chairman of Imo State wing of Nigeria Union Teachers (NUT), Chief Josiah Eze, says the proposed Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) will only amount to an additional N90 million to the current wage bill of N380 million when implemented in the state.

Going by recent developments in the country, history appears to be going out of school curriculum.

Uganda has been gaining ground as a leading education destination in the region. We receive students from Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania who come to study at Ugandan institutions of higher learning.

KYAMBOGO University spent sh48m as "search expenses" for a vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor, Parliament has heard.

Where there is smoke, there is definitely a fire. According to a Ministry of Education official, the current outbreak of school fires is actually a trail of smoke indicating a big fire that is threatening the existence of the Ugandan society.

THE quota system of admission to public universities is to be phased out, state minister for higher education Gabriel Opio has said.

THE story we carry in today's edition about more than 400 school girls in Mumbwa district alone dropping out of school after either getting pregnant or being married off in the last two year is cause for serious concern.

Lack of adequate facilities is the greatest challenge facing the privately sponsored students programme. Often, universities admit more students than their limited facilities can cater for.

In 1998, the University of Nairobi admitted a handful of students into a new programme that allowed parallel teaching of courses offered in its mainstream classes. The courses were mainly business-related.

KAITA Local Government Council in Katsina State has awarded N5 million bursary to students from the local government studying in various institutions of higher learning in the country.

Even as they celebrate 10 years since the introduction of the parallel degree programme, the public universities would do well to improve on the weaknesses in the system.

THE headmaster of St Dominic's Secondary School in Chishawasha was yesterday convicted of diverting 1 000kg of sugar meant for the boarding school's kitchen to himself and other staff members.

A TOTAL of nine students graduated with diplomas and certificates in beauty therapy and hairdressing at a colourful ceremony held at the Meikles Hotel during the week.

A new study recommends counselling to curb the current indiscipline rocking the country's education system. According to a psychologist, Dr Pius Nyutu of the University of Texas at Austin, data for the study was collected from a sample of 867 Kenyan students - 423 male and 444 female - attending seven provincial high schools in Kenya.

The Government will harmonise teachers' salaries to compensate for hardship allowances paid to other civil servants, Education assistant minister Mr Calist Mwatela has said.