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A meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities was cancelled by the Ministry of Labour and Employment on Monday. This was the second time in two weeks that the scheduled meeting was postponed by the government. The spokesman, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, did not give reasons for the development. It was, however, gathered that ASUU was still consulting with its organs on the latest offer by the government. Efforts to get ASUU failed its president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, could not be reached.

Move by US's largest 4-year university system is one of first signs crisis will have major effects through end of year. California State University's Los Angeles campus on April 25, 2019  California's state university system, the largest in the United States, cancelled classes on Tuesday for the fall semester   because of the coronavirus pandemic, while Los Angeles County said its stay-at-home order was likely to be extended by three months. The announcements on the West Coast came after the country's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, told Congress that lifting the sweeping lockdowns could touch off new outbreaks of COVID-19, which has killed nearly 81,000 Americans and devastated the economy. In one of the first indications the pandemic will continue to have significant effects through the end of the year, the chancellor of California State University said classes at its 23 campuses would be cancelled for...

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed stark inequalities in Ghana's educational system. Pupils gather around their teacher in class in Prestea, a mining town in southwest Ghana  Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, a lecturer at the University of Ghana, is looking for new ways to carry on teaching his students. He has no other choice. Ever since Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo ordered last month the indefinite closure of all schools to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, many of the country's higher educational institutions began exploring options in online learning. "I plan to use WhatsApp and Zoom to make the classes more interactive," said Opoku-Agyemang, who teaches literature courses at the Accra-based university's Department of English. "I will also be having guest artists and guest lecturers join in. The artists will use Instagram Live, while the guest lecturers will probably use Zoom." Yet, it won't ...

In a dramatic move, at least a dozen colleges and universities across the country have cancelled in-person classes and switched to teaching their courses online, as the battle against the novel  coronavirus  in the  United States intensifies. The cancellations have been focused in states hardest hit by COVID-19 cases, including, California, New York and Washington state, after the virus infected more than 800 people in the US and killed at least 28 according to official counts. On Tuesday, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, asked its students not to return to campus after its spring break, which begins on Saturday, and said it would move to virtual teaching by March 23. "The decision to move to virtual instruction was not made lightly," the university said in a  statement . "The goal of these changes is to minimize the need to gather in large groups and spend prolonged time in close proximity with...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English. "Come to an all-night prayer vigil to welcome the ember months," read a text from my mother. It was an August ritual she had reminded me about severally. "I have something to do next tomorrow," I texted back from the barbing salon. "You sef," came her instant reply, half-irritated, half-rebuking. What I considered to be a conversation in perfect English between my mother and me would have been regarded as wrong by the self-appointed language police here. But now I have something with which I can defend myself, thanks to the OED, which calls itself "the definitive record of the English language". The Oxford lexicographers have updated the dictionary with 29 Nigerian words, recognising the "unique and distinctive contribution to English as a global language...

A proposal outlined in the State of the Union address would provide tax credits for contributions to organizations that provide scholarships, including for low-income students US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Members of Congress to pass his administration's No. 1 education priority during his State of the Union address – a controversial tax credit scholarship that would allow states to direct billions of dollars to private and religious schools. "For too long, countless American children have been trapped in failing government schools," Trump said Tuesday evening. "To rescue these students, 18 states have created school choice in the form of opportunity scholarships." "Pass the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act," he told the chamber, "because no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government school." Education Secretar...

The Education Department is reviews in districts across the country to examine how sexual assault cases are handled after a recent dramatic rise in reports from schools. OFFICIALS FROM THE Education Department's Office for Civil Rights are launching a Title IX compliance review in schools across the country – a response to an alarming increase in reports of sexual assault in elementary, middle and high schools and what Secretary Betsy DeVos is calling "the tragic rise of sexual misconduct complaints in our nation's K-12 campuses." "We hear all too often about innocent children being sexually assaulted by an adult at school," DeVos said in a statement. "That should never happen. No parent should have to think twice about their child's safety while on school grounds." Authorities reported approximately 9,700 incidents of sexual assault, rape or attempted rape in public elementary and secondary schools during the 2015-2016 scho...

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