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GOVERNMENT has no money to pay teachers invigilating this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations and is urging the educators to make sacrifices for their students, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday.

During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds.

A Member of Parliament has been expelled from a university over examination malpractice.

Hardly a day goes by in Uganda without a case of defilement making the rounds in newspapers and media outlets.

The inspector-general of higher education, Madeira Pereira, Monday in Luanda called on university students for greater engagement in researching activities, for a better quality of teaching and learning.

The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society.

The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, Cândida Teixeira, advised Sunday in Luanda, Angolan young women to engage in training, especially in courses of social sciences, for the country's continuous growth.

THE TERTIARY Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has entreated the government to remain focused and not to be distracted by 'antagonists', whose main objective is to bring down President Mills' administration.

Fifteen students from Ebonyi State are to be trained at the Nigeria Maritime Academy, through an N81 million government scholarship fund as part of efforts to have its indigenes in all sectors of the nation's economy.

On September 23, I wrote on these pages suggesting a way out of the stalemate that had gripped Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, over the appointment of its vice-chancellor since the departure of the last substantive V-C, Professor Shehu Usman Abdullahi,

Vice President of Visual Art Association of Nigeria (VATAN), Prince Adeyemi Kosoko has decried the attitude of state governments towards the provision of visual materials to secondary and primary schools in the country.

The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State has resumed for the 2009/2010 academic session and has commenced academic activities for both fresh and returning students of the institution.

Why did it take the Alumni Association so long time to have an Abuja Chapter?

Oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited has donated to the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom State, various engineering equipment worth N17 million, to promote effective teaching and learning.

The use of multiple-choice questions in Post Universities Matriculation Examination (Post-UME) screening by universities in the country contravenes the original concept. Former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola has said.

A Canadian Education Consultant and international admission specialist, Ms. Karen Perez has attributed attempts by parents to seek better education opportunities for their children where available, to the insecurity in the country's education system.