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Delta Polytechnic Otefe-Oghara Post UTME Form – 2015/16

Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara, DESPO post UTME application form for the 2015/2016 academic session admission exercise is out. DESPO post UTME minimum cut-off mark is 150. Candidates who made DESPO their institution of choice in the 2015 UTME and score 150 and above can apply for the post UTME screening exercise. DESPO Available Programmes. i.… Read More »

Delta State Poly, Otefe Oghara HND Admission Form – 2015/16

Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe Oghar, DESPO HND programmes admission form for the 2015/2016 academic session is now on sale. The management of the Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe Oghara (DESPO) is inviting suitably qualified candidates to her Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes admission for the 2015/2016 academic session. DESPO Available Programmes. i. Accountancy ii. Banking and Finance… Read More »

Osun State Polytechnic Iree Post UTME Details – 2015/16

Osun State Polytechnic, Iree post UTME application form for the 2015/2016 academic session admission exercise is on. Osun Poly Iree post UTME minimum cut-off mark is 150. Candidates that didn’t choose OSPOLY Iree but wished to be considered for admission into the polytechnic can also apply. The management of the Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree… Read More »

Gov't supports ICT education

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says government will continue to support the teaching and learning of ICT to enable the country to embrace and exploit the benefits that it provides for socio-economic development. He said it is, therefore, important that the country’s education system provides students with the requisite skills to keep up with the pace… Read More »

Gov't expands access to quality education

Regional News of Thursday, 30 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-30 In fulfillment of President John Dramani Mahama’s vision to expand access to quality education, construction work is on-going on an initial 73 Community Senior Day High Schools. “Work will begin this year in 50 other locations” Mr. Kwabena Nkansah Asare, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive,… Read More »

Hundreds demonstrate outside Taiwan's education ministry after student's suicide

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Taipei early on Friday calling for the education minister to resign after a student committed suicide, amid a deepening row over the island’s “mainland China-centric” school curriculum. Several hundred people, some holding white roses and candles, congregated outside the education ministry at midnight to bid farewell to 20-year-old Lin Kuan-hua,… Read More »

Review – 'Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason'

The face of modern education?. Flickr/Richard Lee. Some rights reserved. Ansgar Allen (2014) Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason, Basingstoke; Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781137272850. £65.00. Too many sociological and education studies are published nowadays. The pressure to publish has outrun the need to have something different to say. Wheels are constantly… Read More »

The $1-a-week school

ACROSS the highway from the lawns of Nairobi’s Muthaiga Country Club is Mathare, a slum that stretches as far as the eye can see. Although Mathare has virtually no services like paved streets or sanitation, it has a sizeable and growing number of classrooms. Not because of the state—the slum’s half-million people have just four… Read More »

Taiwan students storm education ministry compound in textbook protest

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hundreds of Taiwan students stormed the ministry of education compound early on Friday, after one committed suicide earlier in the week, intensifying anti-China protests over textbooks they say are aimed at promoting Beijing’s “one China” policy. About 700 students climbed barricades around the ministry and as of Friday morning about 200 students… Read More »