Half of area’s pupils missing out on chosen secondary school
Less than half of children in Butetown get their top choice school compared with 88% across Cardiff.
SATURDAY, 20 APRIL 2024, 02:38
Less than half of children in Butetown get their top choice school compared with 88% across Cardiff.
[Premium Times] Mr Laka, said the 22 people, comprising 15 students and seven workers of the university, were abducted from the university in September 2023.
Teacher retention problems particularly acute in larger Mats, analysis finds
Multi-academy trusts (Mats) in England have significantly higher annual turnover of classroom teachers at secondary level than schools maintained by local authorities, analysis has found.
Teacher recruitment and retention is a challenge facing all schools but the problem is particularly acute in larger Mats where...
[Mastercard Foundation] Every month, stakeholders such as policymakers, EdTech entrepreneurs, teachers, and parents come together to discuss the intersection of education and technology at the EdTech Mondays Radio Show.
[Leadership] Stakeholders have emphasized the urgent need for educational reform and human resource development in Nigeria.
[Ethiopian Herald] Addis commits to quality health delivery
[Ethiopian Herald] With a view to discharging corporate social responsibility, Champions Academy said every year it has allocated a 10 percent enrollment for autistic students and help them to lead successful and productive lives.
The answers to today’s problems
Earlier today I set you these puzzles, set by the author of Much Ado About Numbers, a new book about mathematics in Shakespeare’s day.
1. Hours and hours
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The Beaks are among the families in England and Wales who have faced fines over health-related school absences
Chloe Beak lives with chronic, debilitating migraines that leave her unable to attend school for days at a time. But instead of receiving support from her school, her parents have been fined by the local authority for her truancy.
The family’s current fix is to send their daughter in...
[Daily Trust] Musa Inuwa Kubo was the Borno State Commissioner for Education when the kidnap of the Chibok school girls happened. In this interview, he speaks on circumstances surrounding the abduction, the pressure from federal government officials at that time, who felt that no one was abducted, among others.
[Daily Trust] It has been ten years since over 250 girls were taken from the Government Secondary, Chibok. Since then, some of the girls have been recovered. But till date, over 80 of the girls are still in captivity. Just like it has been in the past 10 years, today, every year, parents of the victims lament their situation. Some say they do not know whether to keep hoping that one day their...
[Daily Trust] The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked the federal government to intensify efforts and take decisive action to rescue the remaining abducted Chibok schoolgirls who have been in the hands of their captors for the past 10 years.
[Premium Times] Mr Tinubu gave the assurance at the 13th Convocation and Investiture of the third Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
[Unicef] Abuja, Nigeria — New UNICEF report shows that just 37 per cent of schools across 10 states have early warning systems in place to identify threats, such as school attacks
[Daily Trust] Today, April 14, 2024, marks the tenth anniversary of a national disaster. It coincides with the day Boko Haram terrorists dressed in military uniforms abducted 276 final year school girls in a nighttime raid from their dormitory in Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. About 50 of the girls escaped immediately by jumping out of the lorries, in which they were...
[Daily Trust] When the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram perpetrated the infamous mass abduction of teenage girls in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, precisely a decade ago today, the first major challenge was the failure of all the relevant stakeholders to reach a consensus that indeed there was a security breach of monumental proportions.
[Daily Trust] Vanderbilt University, USA — The recent revival of the Almajiri education programme, marked by the establishment of the Almajiri Commission, reflects a commendable commitment to addressing this longstanding issue. However, the track record of past endeavours raises valid doubts about the potential success of this latest initiative. From the deportation of Almajiri children to...
Though the academic scene continues to imbue this coastal Connecticut city with a certain gravitas, surrounding neighborhoods are showing off their own cultural capital in the realms of art, food, music and more.
[Premium Times] The released students spent over 200 days in the terrorists’ camp following their abduction last September.
Don’t make this a comedy of errors
Today’s puzzles come from the quill of Rob Eastaway, the bard of brainteasers, whose latest book Much Ado About Numbers is a journey into Shakespeare’s mathematical life and times.
1. Hours and hours
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Fawcett Society warns sector is lacking in ambition and delivery and calls for free ‘universal’ hours
Labour in a bind over much-needed childcare reform
England’s childcare system is failing and falling behind those of much of the rest of the world, a UK charity for gender equality and women’s rights has said.
The Fawcett Society said childcare in England was failing on several fronts:...