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THE government yesterday approved N20.6 billion for the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other federal educational institutions to stem a barrage of industrial actions in the education sector.
In the past several weeks, the nation has been grappling with the turmoil in the university system, occasioned by the continuing strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). With academic timetables in disarray and students once more prematurely sent home, parents-and the rest of the country-looked to the government and striking union officials to find a common ...
The Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Stephen Sumani Nayina, has reaffirmed the government's commitment to bridging the yawning educational gap between the North and the Southern parts of Ghana.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has become the latest beneficiary of a new e-banking product introduced by HFC Bank (GH) Ltd. aimed at making campus life easier for students.
Students of the National Vocational Training Center in Sawa (NVTC) said that the collages and vocational training centers opened in different parts of the country are playing major role not only in educating youths but also nurturing skilled manpower.
The Asmara Public Library is striving to provide efficient service to the public through addressing its shortcomings, according to Mr. Ephrem Matiwos, manager of the library.
Plans are far advanced for the East Gonja District of the Northern Region to intensify its in-service training programme for teachers, including those under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), to reverse the poor standard of education in the district.
The nation's desire to provide quality education to her citizenry will be a mirage, if issues of infrastructural development, educational materials and teachers' motivations are not addressed.
The Tiyumba Youth Association, a development-oriented organisation based in Dagban Dab-ba fong in the Tamale Metropolis, has donated school uniforms worth several millions of cedis to the Al-Islahiya English and Arabic Primary School located behind the old Tamale Sports stadium at the Kalladan Barracks.
Over 200 teachers under the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) took to the streets of Masvingo Friday morning, demonstrating for a review of their US$100 allowances. Earlier in the week the PTUZ called for a class boycott beginning July 10 and this is to be repeated next week on the 17th July. President Takavafira Zhou said the campaign was code-named Operation Friday/Chisi/Inzilo and ...
Continued from last Friday
The Honorable Member of Parliament (MP) for Asin-North, Kennedy Agyapong, has touched the hearts of the chiefs and people of Duayaw Nkwanta in the Tano-North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region, for fulfilling a promise made to provide the Boakye Tromo Senior High School with a boys' dormitory.
TEACHERS and government are heading for a showdown this month-end after teachers' organisations indicated that they will not accept salaries below US$400.
THE Government has said that the five per cent pay rise ceiling for University of Zambia (UNZA) workers is justified because their current salaries are higher than the public service workers who were given 15 per cent.
A tussle between two ministries over the ownership of assets worth billions of shillings belonging to recently upgraded MultiMedia University (MMU) has deepened, threatening to scuttle learning for thousands of students.
Barclays Bank is developing a new platform in the bonds market that promises to significantly change the way public universities finance their ever-increasing needs.
Following a vote of no confidence by Nanso, the Ministry of education says that "Despite various criticisms the NSFAF receives, the fund will continue to carry out its objective in its best possible approach."
The three-day old strike by workers under the aegis of Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) over non-payment of 33 months monetisation arrears owed them by the Federal Government has paralysed activities in the ...
AT least five lecturers have been sacked by the Abia State University, Uturu, over alleged sexual harassment of female students. Also, some lecturers resigned on their own, when they were being probed over cases of sexual abuse.
Many students seeking admission into the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, may not sit for the forthcoming post-University Matriculation Examination (UME), following the fraudulent activities of some banks, charged with the responsibility of collecting the fees for the institution's post-UME examination.
The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) member of parliament for Bui South (Jakiri) constituency, Hon. Wirngo Buba Kibo believes that "education is the foundation of all other professions and of a sound human society". It is with this firm conviction in mind that Hon.
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY Group, Mr. Nduka Obai-gbena, yesterday donated 100 computers to Day Waterman College located at Asu village, off Abeokuta-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun State.
Following the multiple industrial unrest that has gripped three key sectors of the Nigerian economy namely, education, health and information, the House of Representatives yesterday summoned the ministers in charge of education, health and information and communication, Dr. Sam Egwu, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin and Professor Dora Akunyili.
Makerere University's deputy vice-chancellor in charge of finance and administration, Prof. David Bakibinga and the University Secretary, Mr Sam Akorimo, were yesterday subjected to a fresh criminal inquiry over their role in the collapse of a Shs2 billion fence at the institution.
The number of children abandoning school for scrap business is worrying Lugazi Town Council authorities. Lugazi central chairman Ben Kawule said most of these children, who are mainly of primary school-going age, move from place to place, collecting any metal scraps they lay their hands on.
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