A top Chinese university has removed references to “freedom of thought” from its charter, triggering a rare act of student defiance, while two other institutions added language stressing fealty to President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party.
A video circulating this week showed students at Shanghai’s Fudan University singing the school song — which extols “academic independence and freedom of thought” — in an apparent protest.
Fudan’s charter change was announced by the Ministry of Education on its website late Tuesday and criticism quickly trended on social media before China’s ever-vigilant online censors acted to delete posts and block …
The committee added that there was an urgent need to review the admission process into the country’s tertiary institutions as Nigeria scored low on the internationalisation index.
The committee, headed by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, stated these in Abuja on Thursday at the
A councillor, Mr Emmanuel Sokenu, representing Ward C, Badagry Local Government, on Tuesday donated a speedboat and 30 safety jackets to pupils from Gberefu Island, a riverine area in Badagry.
Sokenu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that pupils from Gberefu Island were passing through hard times crossing the river to their different schools.
“This will make students from my community to get to their different schools in Badagry as we do not have any school in Gberefu Island.
“I was born and brought up in the Island and I know what students pass through crossing …
Texas educator Lynne Anne Burge, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to having sex with two teens, won’t be spending any time in the slammer.
The 33-year-old former Muenster High School teacher claimed she was too hammered to even recall the separate trysts involving a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old.
She copped to two counts of improper relationship between educator and student, confirmed People.
A third charge of online solicitation of a minor was dismissed, according to court records.
According to an arrest warrant obtained by
The school temporarily suspended the students- Popoola Olaniyi, Oluwadare Faith, Nandi Jessica, Ajuwon Emmanuella, Emmanuel Taiwo and Alao Cecilia for
Students of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, and two journalists are counting their losses after fire razed down their compound in Gwalameji area of Bauchi metropolis on Sunday.
Daily Sun learnt that the fire started around 1:30 pm from one of the rooms at Tinubu Lodge.
One of the occupants, a journalist, working with THISDAY newspaper, David Adenuga, said: ”It was like a dream, I couldn’t believe that everything in my room has gone, I lost all my belongings to the fiIre.
”There was no light that time, we still don’t know the source of the fire. The fire affected nine …
The Programme, which was organised by International Center for Leadership Development Nigeria (ICLDG) in partnership with the Nigeria Policing Programme (NPP) with the theme “Own it, Secure it, Protect it”, educated the participants on the consequences of cybercrime in the
The Indian students were arrested on charges of running a “Pay to Stay” visa racket wherein they were assisted hundreds of immigrants in illegally prolonging their stays in the US.
Six were arrested in Detroit, one in Florida and one in Virginia on orders of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.
All eight defendants, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India, pleaded guilty, Khaalid …
No fewer than 13 students of the Kogi State University, Ayingba, have been killed by unidentified persons suspected to be members of a secret cult.
The killings according to eyewitnesses, started on Friday last week when nine students, including a 200-level female student and her boyfriend, were hacked down on the campus and at different points.
Channels Television gathered that some of the victims were attacked on Stadium Road and Our Lady of Fatima’s Lodge where they were brutally murdered and their body dismembered by their assailants.
They said it was a reprisal carried out by one of the cult …
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued the remaining four students of Government Day Secondary School Gwagwada in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who were abducted on their way to school on Oct. 10.
The Deputy Director Army Public Relations Officer,1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna, Col Ezindu Idimah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday night that the students have been handed over to their joyful parents at Gurmi village.
NAN recalls that bandits terrorizing Kaduna/Abuja highway on October 10, abducted 10 students of the school while on their way to school.
However, the quick intervention …
Six students of a private secondary school and two of their teachers in Kakau Daji village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State were yesterday kidnapped by gunmen.
The village is located behind the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company (KRPC) in the state capital.
Confirming the incident, spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, Yakubu Sabo, said the gunmen invaded the school through a porous fence in the early hours of yesterday, went straight to the female hostel and abducted six students.
The spokesman also disclosed that two teachers residing inside the school were also kidnapped by the bandits …
