A new retirement age has been approved for teachers. PUNCH reports that the Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers Bill, 2021. The bill, among other recommendations, seeks to change the retirement age of teachers
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Teens who have good, supportive relationships with their teachers enjoy better health as adults, according to new research. Perhaps surprisingly, although friendships are important to adolescents, the study did not find the same link between good peer relationships and students’
Artificial Intelligence expert, Mr. Olusola Amusan, has urged parents and teachers to expose children to the learning of Artificial Intelligence. Amusan, in an interview with a Punch correspondent, said it was unfortunate that Nigeria had not developed strategies to become
9,246 Nigerian teachers who sat for the Batch A professional qualifying exam held in July 2020, reportedly failed. The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) said only 75%, a total of 28,094 candidates passed the exam. The council’s registrar Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye
Most students who resumed for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Education revision have been found to lack the zeal for learning as some have forgotten what they had been taught. Some of the teachers who spoke with a Punch
Children who experience ‘dependent’ or clingy relationships with their preschool teachers tend to also have difficulties in their relationships with their mothers finds researchers at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The research, published in peer-reviewed
The economic effect of COVID-19 is biting hard and the voice of school teachers has been particularly distinct. Not earning at this time is also why some stakeholders have suggested that teachers are mounting pressure for schools to reopen despite
Private school teachers have cried out for help due to unpaid salaries by their management since March when schools were shut down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Yomi Otubela,
Barring any last-minute change, the Oyo State Government has modified the resumption of schools in the state that was earlier scheduled for June 29.The Government had earlier directed all terminal classes including Primary Six (Pry 6), Junior Secondary School Three (JSS3)
According to the Anambra Commissioner for Basic Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha, the decision not to open schools came from the Federal Government, so teachers should stop pressuring the state government to reopen schools as that won’t happen until the Federal Government gave
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has taken a giant step in the right direction and banned street begging in the state on Tuesday. The Governor said the action is to fully consolidate the free and compulsory primary and secondary
The Principal of United Junior Secondary School, Agugu, Ibadan, Mrs/ Christiana Oduola, has urged parents to be alive to their responsibility of raising and educating their children, since learning goes beyond what is taught within the four walls of a
A medical doctor, Afolabi Odunsi, has given reasons why boys do better in mathematics and sciences than their girl counterparts and he believes the scale can be balanced with the effort of teachers. Odunsi, who was the guest speaker at
President Buhari on Monday, December 2nd in Daura, Katsina State, extoled the virtues of education and said the socio-economic and political salvation of Nigeria would come from access to learning. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam
The Lagos State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has announced its plans to recruit 1,000 secondary school teachers into the state’s Post Primary Teaching Service. Mums who are seeking employment can tap into the opportunity. “This is to ensure that the
A few months ago, the Ogun state government launched her recruitment portal and now there’s an update on that. The same portal is currently used to publish and announce all job vacancies within the state and all interested persons who
The use of corporal punishment in Nigerian schools has been a controversial issue across the country. While some consider as a necessary measure to instill discipline and foster compliance among students, others disagree, describing the act as inhuman. Critics of
As schools are preparing to resume for a new academic session, some group of teachers have taken to social media to write an open letter to parents on how they can help their kids be better and to stop making
Most parents consider the school is a third party realm. Many unwittingly assume that there are invisible connecting lines between the child’s home and their school, but teachers wish parents could understand the relationship with the teachers and the school
Performance of teaching applicants during the Cross River State SUBEB Primary School recruitment exercises has been shocking and nothing short of embarrassing and sad. The quality of education available to pupils in state owned schools in Nigeria has always been
After being taunted and bullied by his friends, a 13-year-old Staten Island school boy, Daniel Fitzpatrick, penned a heartbreaking note and hung himself. His dead body was found late Thursday by his older sister in the attic of his family home, with a belt wrapped
