The Council of Heads of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology has thrown its weight behind Federal Government's recent decision to phase out Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes in institutions throughout the country within two years.

The results of the BEPC examination will be published in the days ahead.

The Cameroon Students' Rights Association, popularly known by its French acronym as ADDEC, has dragged the Director of the Advanced School of Mass Communications, ASMAC, Prof Laurent Charles Boyomo, to court for what they termed extortion.

Mallam Mohammed Kabir, National President, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), yesterday described on-going one week warning strike embarked upon by members of the union as successful.

The Ministry of Basic Education will soon begin to recruit Grade I teachers for the 2008/2009 academic year.

The old students of Danteng Methodist Primary and Junior High School in the Kwahu West District of the Eastern Region, and the people in the area, have been urged to contribute positively towards the development of the school

The All-Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) yesterday called on the Federal Government to urgently accede to the demand of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for the issuance of a circular for the implementation of the Teachers'

Ijaw National Congress Europe (INC-EU) has petitioned President Umaru Yar'Adua over an alleged marginalisation of Niger Delta people especially Ijaw in the award of overseas scholarship scheme (OSS) by the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF).

Chief Investigator in the Office of the Ombudsman, Erastus Wanyengapo, has confirmed receipt by the Office of the Ombudsman of a request to investigate the affairs of the University of Namibia (Unam).

If you have ever graduated you would know what it feels like as you look forward to the day of your sendoff. A Graduation ceremony is a special epoch in the life of an individual. After weeks, months, or years

The Students and Young Professionals' Academy 2008 has ended in Accra with a call for African leaders to look inwardly for solutions to the continent's problems.

Efforts by the government to improve on the level of literacy in the country is suffering a big blow in the Sene District of Brong Ahafo Region as a result of the persistent use of child labour. According to Mr.

EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor has announced that the University of Limpopo's (UL's) healthcare faculty, which produces almost half of SA's African medical graduates, will not be moved from Ga-Rankuwa, outside Pretoria, but will be revamped.

The Ethiopian Science and Technology Agency (ESTA) on Tuesday awarded medals, money and accreditation certificate to individuals and institutions in the country, for their usage and teaching and dissemination of the science and technology.

HOW do you forgive terrible crimes committed against you, and by you? The blood diamond-fuelled war from 1991 to 2002 left Sierra Leone in pandemonium with about 50,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.

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NEW offices and a classroom block, worth sh185m, have been inaugurated in Amuru district by the northern Uganda state minister.

OVER 2,000 secondary school teachers are to get jobs after the finance ministry lifted the ban on teacher-recruitment.

Four primary schools in Mbale have been closed due to the cholera outbreak in the district.

Crisis is brewing between the authorities of the University of Benin and the Academic Staff Union of Universities over an alleged harassment of members of staff with the security department of the school by the institution's management.