Female students of the Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, Damaturu are finding it difficult to stay in their hostels at night because of snakes.

THE Government has proposed to remove religious studies from the school curriculum for what they say are "strategic and ideological" reasons (The New Vision, Monday, April 28, 2008). Although we are entirely relying on the short article to react to

Government's insincerity with its campaign to eradicate illiteracy is a calculated attempt at keeping the masses ignorant and incapable of holding it accountable for monumental failures in meeting the aspirations of Nigerians.

THE provisional admission list of government-sponsored students at public universities shows a huge gap between boys and girls. Out of the 3,000 students admitted on merit, only 940, or 32%, are girls.

ONCE again, Makerere University lecturers demonstrated that even those with the highest academic qualifications are prone to engaging in intrigue every now and again.

The president of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Nasarawa State chapter, Mr. Charles Umekwe, has called on the Nasarawa State government to involve private school operators in all stakeholders meetings in the state.

Members of the Barbaig community have been advised to send their children to school in order to catch up with the rest of the world.

The Mukidoma chain of schools intends to establish what is likely to be the first television station in Arusha region.

Kebbi State Committee on the Improvement and Development of Education has submitted its report to Governor Saidu Dakingari in Birnin Kebbi.

Youths in Bwari area council have been charged to embrace education if they must make a mark in the contribution to national development.

With the pace to establish higher institutions of learning gaining speed in Arusha, the management of Mukidoma chain of Schools has expressed their intention to set up yet another University in the vicinity.

I read with concern an article in The New Vision of April 29, where the lands commission boss, Mayanja Nkangi, was lamenting over a Cabinet proposal to have religious studies banned from the school curriculum.

On Friday the 2nd of May, 2008, the management of University of Abuja, took a bold step in the commissioning of some important structures and the formal relocation of the office of Vice Chancellor of the university to the permanent

Hundreds of teachers have abandoned the chalk for jobs in the private sector and the public service. The Kenya Secondary School Heads Association says nearly 600 teachers have left the classroom for the Public Service in the past six months.

MBARARA district councillors have proposed a by-law banning boarding sections for pupils below 12 years.

Schools reopen Monday for the second term, the longest and busiest period in the academic calendar. But challenges abound as children resume studies.

The association of Tanzanian employees at the East African Community Secretariat has taken the initiative to give a remote school in Ngaramtoni area a major face-lift.

Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST) last week established Anti- Trafficking School Clubs in four secondary schools in Freetown.

A college lecturer was arrested and threatened with spending the long weekend in Caledon Square's police cells after being accused of making racist remarks against Metrorail.

The abolition of the CPE examination cannot be an administrative, bureaucratic and political decision decreed from the top. Here is a bottom-up approach where ground reality determines everything. The CPE will no longer be the nightmare of so many children