Education

Students who are 16 years of age or will become so by August 2025 may be admitted to postsecondary institutions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). This is in accordance with a circular that was distributed to postsecondary institutions this week and signed by Mohammed A. Babaji, Director of Admissions at JAMB. Following […]

Sphiwe Hobasi, a South African, has hoped that his high school bully will not be allowed parole after learning that he is incarcerated.   After his picture appeared on television as one of the prisoners taking tests, Sphiwe told Zola about his experience. “My high school bully is writing matric exams in prison. Xola would

A 15-year-old Secondary school student identified as Usman Sandra, has been arrested by men of the Ondo state police command for allegedly st@bbing her colleague to de@th.    The command in a post shared on its X handle said Sandra and the deceased had a f!ght and in the process, she brought out a kn!fe

According to the Federal government, all students in Nigeria’s Basic and Senior Secondary Education programs must graduate with a minimum of two talents as part of the new curriculum that will be implemented.   This was said by Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, on Thursday, October 10, during the 68th National Council on

Today’s students in Scotland are able to identify as animals and are permitted to do so. It has been acknowledged by a second Scottish council that at least one student has been permitted to identify as an abnormal. According to information released by the council, “one or more [primary school] pupil(s)” had been diagnosed with

A terrifying near-miss involving two young schoolgirls in Colombia who were on the verge of being crushed by a minibus was seen on camera. When the public transport vehicle came thundering down the street on Tuesday afternoon, October 1, after schools in Ciudad Bolivar, a neighbourhood in the capital city of Bogotá, the two 14-year-old

When I was in primary school, I was seen as a bright kid, and was very reserved too. So parents around my street knew, and would never mind their kids associating with me. In fact, a parent had to withdraw his child from a particular school and brought him to my school. The first day

In the event that its members abandon their posts and close Nigeria’s public universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU, has asked Nigerians to hold the Federal Government accountable. The union argued that although it had taken every precaution to prevent the impending strike, neither the government nor its representatives had shown genuine

This morning, October 2, the driver of a bus that caught fire in Thailand has surrendered himself to the authorities. On October 1, a fire that started on a fifty-year-old bus that was transporting twenty pupils and three teachers into Bangkok killed everyone inside. All field trips nationwide were halted in the wake of the