TEN MOST EXPENSIVE SECOUNDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS

10. Dowen College

N2, 000,000 annually for a boarding student and N1, 250,000 for a day student.
Dowen College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for the children aged 11 to 18. Dowen offers a broad and balanced education within a friendly, caring and happy environment. Their state-of-the-art facilities include a well equipped library, computer centre, internet connectivity, cultural facilities, football pitch, swimming pool and many more. Their school fee is about N2 million per annum for the boarding student and (N1, 250,000) for the day student. The fees include feeding, school uniform, house wear, and textbooks. They make the list at number 9 in my 10 most expensive school in Lagos.

Address: 18, Adebayo herty Road, Road 14 , Phase 1, Lekki, Lagos.
Website: www.dowencollege.org

9. Chrisland College, Ikeja

N2, 000,000 annually. Fees can be paid annually or termly but on or before the first day of school. These include registration, tuition deposit, accommodation and feeding.

Chrisland High School, Ikeja is a vibrant, modem and unique school concerned with the diversity of learners as people in their totality. It is located at Ladipo Oluwole Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. Their facilities include spacious fully air-conditioned classrooms, modern laboratories, music and drama studio, wireless internet access, stocked library, swimming pool, well laid out air-conditioned cafeteria, basketball court and many more. Chrisland college come 9 as my 10 most expensive schools in lagos

website www.chrislandschools.org

 

8. Atlantic Hall

N2, 270,000 annually

The school is committed to and reflects academic excellence and a well rounded education. Atlantic Hall was established in January 1989 by the Atlantic Hall Educational Trust Council.  Atlantic Hall offers first class facilities in a spacious and attractive rural setting.  Their facilities includes Laboratories, Library, Technology Rooms, Food Technology Rooms, Fine Art Centre, Music Rooms, ICT Laboratories, Prep’ Rooms. Atlantic Hall comes number 8 as my 10 most expensive schools in lagos

TEN WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR MATH GRADE

10 Ways To Improve Your Math Grade. This is one of those subjects in school that many students complain about. Maths is one of those subjects which you can easily spend hours studying but end up none the wiser. However much you have studied, if you can not solve the problem on day of the test, you are lost. The problem many students have is that they don’t know how to study maths to get good results. The following tips will help you to improve your math study skills.

1. Master A Topic Before Moving To The Next One.

It sounds simple, but it is absolutely essential. If you are having a problem with a topic, continue working with that one until you understand it and can work problems successfully. Attend tutoring, read the book and examples a second time, or even get a totally different book to have it explained a different way, but whatever you do not turn the page and tackle the next topic.

2. Study In A Quiet Place.

If you have a quiet place without the background noise, you will be able to could focus much better. Try to find a quiet spot in your home or in the Library to get your schoolwork done and you will get your work done much more quickly because you’ll be able to focus and absorb more.

GHANA : TEACHERS ISSUE ONE WEEK ULTIMATUM TO GOVERNMENT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) – GH, have given government a one week ultimatum to address issues concerning their salary arrears.

In a letter dated 17th October, 2017 addressed to the Finance Minister, cited by ClassFMonline.com, the teachers said: “We refer to our letter dated 21st June, 2017 and subsequent meetings that followed on the subject matter above and regret that the concerns raised have been left unaddressed to date.”

KADPOLY : ASUP SUSPEND STRIKE

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) in Kaduna Polytechnic (Kadpoly) has suspended its seven weeks old strike.

The students of the institution were writing their second semester examination when their lecturers decided to down tool.

Chairman of the union, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim confirmed the suspension of the strike to newsmen in his office on Tuesday saying that, the suspension followed the resolution of the emergency congress of 17th October, 2017.

According to him, “following the resolution of the emergency congress of 17th October, 2017, the seven weeks old strike has been suspended.

LAUTECH ASUU SUSPENDS STRIKE

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Ladoke Akintola University of Technology has suspended its four-months-long strike after a meeting with its members at the university’s main campus in Ogbomoso on Tuesday.

This will be the second time the academic staff union will be suspending its strike which, in sum, has spanned, at least, two years.

The Secretary of ASUU LAUTECH Dr. Abegunrin, corroborated by the union’s Zonal Coordinator Dr. Ade Adejumo, confirmed that the strike had been suspended with immediate effect but academic activities will kick off on Monday, October 23.

“The zone will have to be briefed, national will have to be briefed, but the Congress have suspended the strike in principle as from today but full lectures will resume on Monday,” Dr. Adejumo said. “Skeletal things will continue, preparatory to the commencement of full academic activities on Monday.”

FG TO ENFORCE 200 CUT- OFF MARK FOR ADMISSION OF TEACHERS INTO UNIVERSITIES

Nigerian government has revealed that it will soon direct the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to enforce a cut-off of 200 marks for candidates who desire to be teachers.

Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony Anwukah noted that the current 100 marks cut-off for prospective teachers through the colleges of education and other higher institutions “was unacceptable.”

The minister said the low cut-off would bring a fall in the standard and quality of teachers produced in the country.

His words: “The recent announcement by JAMB (on the cut-offs) has not gone well with me. There is no point saying that those candidates going for teacher training should have 100 marks.

ZARIA - TEACHERS FAST AGAINST SACK

Teachers in Zaria Local Government Area in Kaduna state on Tuesday began three days of fasting and prayers to seek God’s intervention on the planned sack of 20,000 primary school teachers.

Kaduna State Government had conducted an examination for primary school teachers in the state and said 68 per cent of the teachers (20,000) did not pass the primary four pupils’ exam at excellent level.

Malam Yahaya Abbas, NUT Chairman in Zaria Local Government Area, told journalists in Zaria yesterday that the teachers were compelled to seek God’s intervention over the planned sack.

Abbas said: “Majority of our members here are Muslims and we do not have anywhere to lodge our complaint except to our creator.

UNITED KINGDOM MAY DEPORT NIGERIAN STUDENTS

More than 100 Nigerian students on scholarship in the United Kingdom universities could be deported home as early as this week except their fees are settled immediately, according to The Telegraph of London.

The students are said to be sponsored by a regional agency and some of them are saddled with debts of up to £20,000.

The name of the sponsor agency was not given in the report.

The report described the students as “some of the Nigeria’s brightest undergraduates.”

They have been told that they will not receive their degree certification even though many of them completed their courses in the last academic year.

The newspaper said some of the affected students claimed they have been warned they could be deported by Friday, October 20.

It said the Nigerian High Commission in London confirmed that 152 students had been caught up in the scandal and that the sponsoring agency had been left with a “draught of funding” due to a slump in Nigeria’s oil revenues.

The High Commission said in a statement that additional funding had been approved for 87 students.

There was no mention of how soon the bill would be paid.

The universities of Leeds and Essex said they “sympathised” with the affected students but declined to say whether their visas would be revoked.

They said that they were working closely with the Nigerian High Commission to resolve the dispute.

The University of Sussex claimed it had allowed one student to graduate, but declined to comment on whether their transcript had been withheld. It added that it had been providing “some financial assistance for living costs in cases of particular hardship.”

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OAU STUDENTS - WE ARE NOT CRIMINALS

Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who were recently suspended by the management of the institution, have kicked against the allegation that they were involved in criminal activities.

The leadership of the Students’ Union of the university, who spoke on their behalf on Monday, said the suspended students did not engage in any criminal activity.

The student leaders argued that the affected students were suspended for expressing their displeasure over the poor welfare conditions on the university campus.

They said this in a press statement jointly signed by the President of the union, Oyekan Ibukun; its Secretary-General, Boluwajaiye Adeoluwa, and Public Relations Officer, Okediji Simon.

The OAU authority on Friday announced the suspension of four undergraduates of the university over alleged involvement in criminal activities and a breach of the university’s code of conduct, among other offences.

The students, who condemned the suspension, complained that two postgraduate students were also suspended for also protesting.

REBUILDING THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

 

 Education according to Wikipedia, is “an act or process of developing and cultivating (whether physically or mentally or morally) one’s mental activity or senses; the expansion, strengthening, and discipline of one’s mind, faculty, etc.; the forming and regulation of principles and character in order to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction.

Nigeria ranks as the tenth largest nation in the world, and by far the largest nation in Africa, with an estimated population of 150,000,000 people. Located north of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, Nigeria is bordered on the east by Cameroon, on the northeast by Chad, on the north by Niger, and on the west by the Republic of Benin. Land features change dramatically in Nigeria, from rain forests along the coast to rolling savanna hills about 200 miles north of the coastline. The savanna extends another 200 miles northward across the Niger and Benue Rivers. In the northeast, mountains form the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. The central and western part of northern Nigeria is a flat, semi-desert land called the Sahel. The Sahara Desert expands southward into the northern edges of Nigeria. The total land area is 356,669 square miles (923,773 square kilometers).

THE POWER AND PLACE OF A TEACHER CAN NOT BE UNDER ESTMATED
IN THE GROWTH OF A NATION

THE PLIGHT OF THE NIGERIAN TEACHER

The way people perceive teachers varies from one society and culture to the other. To the Jews, he is known as “Rabbi” (the great scholar) while Indians refer to him as “Brahman” (the esteemed one). In Athens, he is referred to as ‘prodigy’, that is, the most intelligent one in the community while in Rome; a teacher is a ‘pedagogo’, meaning a slave whose duty is to teach the young ones. Back home in Nigeria, it is believed in some quarters that teachers are generally wretched and miserly persons who measure yams with a ruler or foodstuff  such as garri (cassava flour), rice, beans, etc. so as to determine the quantity to be cooked. As evident in our society, teachers are usually sneered at for their not too comfortable and favourable social status. Worst still, while others readily get their own share of the national cake while still alive, teachers are to wait for their own reward in heaven!

The role of the teacher is multi-faceted, comprising academic, pedagogical and social roles. The academic role comprises teaching, counselling and supervisory roles. The pedagogical roles includes instructional, evaluation and facilitating roles. The teacher as a facilitator is involved on motivating pupils to learn, maintaining classroom and school control and creating a condusive environment for learning to take place. Social roles includes socializing activities which prepare students for the society's way of life. Other roles include reference roles, detective roles, parent surrogate, confidant and affectionate roles.

AUCHI POLY STUDENTS PROTEST

Students of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, on Monday, have staged a protest against the management for non-conduct of students’ union election in the institution.

The students’ protest, it was gathered, disrupted the second semester examination which commenced on Monday, and other activities on the campus.

The protest, it was gathered, started as earlier as 7.00a.m, forcing the acting Rector, Dr. Sanusi Jimah, to invite soldiers and policemen to be station at the two gates leading into the institution. The security operatives were also said to have patrolled the school’s campus.

As a result of the students protest, the 2016/2017 second semester examination, academic and administrative have been crippled on the campus as workers refused to enter the campus for fear of being cut in the crisis particularly with the presence of soldiers and policemen.

NON TEACHING STAFF TO MEET FG OVER STRIKE

The non-teaching members of staff of Nigerian universities on Monday said they would meet to decide on a date to meet with the Federal Government over the indefinite strike embarked upon by the unions.

The non-teaching members of staff of universities under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee had threatened to embark on an indefinite strike from September 11 over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.

The President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, made this known in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.

“We have commenced the strike today (Monday); the strike is total, comprehensive and indefinite. We only just got a letter from the Ministry of Labour and Employment inviting us for a meeting today.

“But, it is not something I alone can decide but the JAC as it involves other unions, we have to come together and take that decision on when to meet with the Federal Government,” he said.

The unions under the JAC are the National Association of Academic Technologists, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and the Associated Institutions and SSANU.

The demands of the unions include the payment of earned allowances to members, a review of the governance system in universities, improved funding in line with UNESCO recommendations, provisions of infrastructure in universities, payment of salary shortfall being owed members and the implementation of the National Industrial Court judgment on university staff schools, registration of NUPEMCO.

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UNIONS SHUT DOWN KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY

The Kaduna State University chapters of Senior Staff Association, Non-Academic Staff union and National Association of Technologists have joined the nationwide indefinite strike declared by unions on Monday.

Mr. Kantoma Bala, Chairman of the universities senior staff association, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna on Tuesday, that the three unions had formed a Joint Action Committee to monitor the strike.

“It is a national strike and the non-academic staff unions are part of the respective national bodies.

“We began the indefinite strike as directed by our respective national leadership over the failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement with the union,” he said.

NAN reports that the agreement was supposed to address the problem of inadequate funding of public universities, poor governance, and administrative lapses.

Other issues that prompted the strike include poor infrastructure, abandoned projects, fragmentation of salary payments to staff, and lack of adequate teaching and learning facilities among others.



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CAMEROON : 2017 GCE 'O' AND 'A' LEVELS - RESULT WITNESS SIGNIFICANT DROP

The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board (CGCEB) has released the results of its 2017 examinations. While the Advanced Level General and Technical Education was announced in Buea 11 August, 2017, the Ordinary Level was released two days later on 14 August. 

The statistics indicate a 35.32% pass for Advanced Level down from 66.52% in 2016. The Advanced Level Technical scored 22.37% against 54.33% in 2016. For the General Education, 38.628 candidates registered for the examination and had 33.037 students who effectively sat for the examination. 3.591 absences were recorded while 11.670 were declared successful.

 For the Advanced Level Technical, 3.472 students entered their names as candidates. Of the number, 2.567 wrote while 905 students were absent and 574 candidates passed. Meanwhile the GCE Ordinary level General Education (O/L) results show a 25.29 percentage pass this year drastically dropping from 62.17 in 2016. Only 11.770 candidates pass out of the 46.532 who sat the exam in the various centres of Cameroon.

 The GCE Technical O/L registered a 28.49 percentage pass as against 40.12 last year. The Baccalaureat Technique and related exams shall be proclaimed after the on-going practical. Results of some candidates have been withheld for various suspected malpractices. The concerned candidates are requested to appear before the Examination Executive Council (EEC) ad hoc committee at the Board in Buea on 21 August, 2017, at 10 am. 

The CGCE Board is also withholding the results of candidates who wrote the 2017 examination without prior registration or registered after the April 15, 2017 deadline. The Board emphasized that it has to verify and ensure that the students are void of malpractices and meet the registration formalities. The results can be consulted on www.camgceb.org. This year's nose-dive in GCE results has been blamed by Officials on the socio-political climate that shoke Anglophone Cameroon with ghost schools from November 2016 grounding two of the three yearly terms of studies.

SCHOOLS RESUME IN DRC WITH EMPTY CLASSROOMS

The new school year has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo - but many pupils and teachers are nowhere to be seen.

The teachers at schools run by the state are on strike as they demand higher pay and better working conditions.

The country's economic crisis also means increasing numbers of parents cannot afford private school fees.

UNILORIN TO SCREEN 64,000 UMTE APPLICATION

The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), on Monday, commenced the University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening for no fewer than 64,000 candidates seeking admissions there for the 2017/2018 academic session.

Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs Department of the University, Mr Kunle Akogun in Ilorin,the Kwara State capital, that 104,000 candidates applied for the screening.

He said that only 11,000 successful candidates would be admitted into the various programmes of the institution after the exercise based on its capacity.

Akogun said that the university’s cut-off mark had been pegged at 180 as the minimum.

He said that every department was expected to come up with its own cut-off mark.

According to him; the university is known for its stable academic calendar, making it the most sought after in the country.

He said that the administration of the Vice-Chancellor designate would continue to uphold the virtues and standards of the university. (NAN)

ASUU SILENT ON MEETING WITH FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it will not disclose when it will hold its meetings to consider the Federal Government’s offers, aimed at resolving the ongoing strike.

The ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on Sunday while responding to correspondent’s inquiry as to when the union would meet to examine the Federal Government’s offers and resolve the strike.

The union and the Federal Government’s delegation held a 14-hour meeting on Thursday, after which they issued a communiqué, in which ASUU was asked to revert to the government within one week.

The ASUU President had on Friday said in an interview that he could not determine when the union would call off its strike until its members met to decide the next course of action.