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Nigeria: Kaduna to regulate operations of private schools

África/Nigeria/Abril 2016/Fuente:The Guardian /Autor: NAN

Resumen: El Gobierno del Estado de Kaduna Nasir Rufai señala que va a regular las operaciones de las escuelas privadas que operan en el estado, para garantizar la entrega de una educación de calidad a los estudiantes.

The Kaduna State Government says it will sanitise the operations of the private schools operating in the state, to ensure delivery of quality education to students.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr Shehu Adamu, stated this while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday.

«We have just concluded a survey of all private schools in the state and what we discovered is that quite a number of them are not operating within the minimum standard.

«Some of the schools are operating in areas where a school is not supposed to operate; some are operating in rented apartments and others in just a single room.

«This is not acceptable. We are going to take strict measures on all private schools operating below minimum standard, » Adamu said.

While admitting that private schools are part of the programme of any education sector, Adamu, however, said that the schools must comply to set standard.

The commissioned warned that any school that failed to meet the government’s minimum standard would be shut down.

He said that the ministry would assign its officials in schools to monitor WAEC and NECO examinations, to checking against examination malpractice.

He said the monitoring would «particularly be on schools suspected to be operating as miracle centres.

«Our findings revealed that some private schools may have only 20 students in SS III, but will end up registering over 300 students for WAEC or NECO.

«Such schools could be operating as miracle centres, where the students pay huge amount of money for answers to be written on the black boards for them to copy during examinations.

«We will keep an eye on them and ensure that all schools and students write WAEC and NECO examinations with strict compliance to laid down rules and regulations.

«I assure you that in the next one or two years, miracle centres will fold up in Kaduna state, » the commissioner said.

Fuente de la noticia: http://guardian.ng/news/kaduna-to-regulate-operations-of-private-schools/

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Nigeria: Child Labour-Teachers Beg Fayose to Reinstate Suspended Members

 

África/Nigeria/Marzo 2016/Fuente: Autor: Olakiitan Victor

Following  the suspension of six teachers for allegedly engaging some students in private farming, teachers in Ekiti State have appealed to Governor Ayodele Fayose to temper justice with mercy and reinstate their affected colleagues.

They also appreciated the governor for offering immediate appointment to  the husband of one of them, Mrs. Ayodele Taiwo, for  returning a sum of N101, 000  wrongly paid into her account by the state government .

The teachers under the auspices of Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, in a statement by its Chairman, Comrade Sola Adigun on Sunday, said what the affected teachers allegedly did contravened the civil service rule and Ekiti State Child Rights Act 2013.

Adigun pleaded with governor Fayose to use the suspension as a warning, assuring that such a sordid scenario would not repeat itself.

The ASUSS boss said Fayose’s rewarding of Mrs. Ayodele for displaying honesty would further encourage other teachers in the state on the need to be dedicated to duty and be patriotic.

“ASUSS appreciates our welfarist –oriented and honesty-rewarding Governor for rewarding selflessness and honesty displayed by a member of this union.

“It is on record that a sum of N101,000 was mistakenly paid into her account . She beckoned on the government to retrieve the money. In appreciation of her honesty, the governor offered her a sum of N50,000 which she declined.

“Based on her request, the governor offered her unemployed   husband immediate appointment into one of the state’s institutions. We want to put on record that this was the second time ASUSS members will benefit from the humanitarian matters like this. We are indeed appreciative”, it said.

The union said its members would continue to work assiduously for the actualisation of Fayose’s dream of revamping the education sector and make it a beacon to other states of the federation.

Fayose had last week Saturday suspended some teachers in Elo High School, Ayetoro Ekiti in Ido/Osi local government for allegedly engaging some students in private farming during academic hours.

 

Fuente de la noticia:http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/26/child-labour-teachers-beg-fayose-to-reinstate-suspended-members-2/

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La Universidad de Cambridge retiró un gallo de bronce robado en Nigeria

 África/Nigeria/Marzo 2016/Fuente y Autor: Noticias Alternativas de África.

La Universidad de Cambridge retiró hoy un gallo de bronce nigeriano que estaba expuesto en el Jesus College tras las presiones y quejas de los estudiantes porque fue saqueado en un asalto imperialista británico en el siglo XIX.

El bronce de Benín, conocido como “okukor”, fue entregado al citado colegio de la universidad en 1930 por un exoficial de las Fuerzas Armadas británicas.

El mes pasado, los estudiantes del centro votaron para que la figura volviera a Nigeria, a lo que el colegio ha respondido quitándolo del comedor donde estaba expuesto y ha afirmado que está considerando su repatriación.

Casi 1.000 bronces, creados por el pueblo edo desde el siglo XIII, fueron saqueados cuando la ciudad de Benín, en la actual Nigeria, fue ocupada por el ejército imperial en 1897, de acuerdo con el Museo Británico.

En torno a 900 de estos artefactos están alojados en museos y colecciones alrededor del mundo, incluido el Museo Británico, que cuenta con la mayor parte de estas piezas.

El gallo de bronce de la Jesus College, que fue donado por el capitán George William Neville, cuyo hijo había estudiado en esa facultad, decoraba el salón comedor del edificio.

Sin embargo, en febrero el sindicato de estudiantes de la facultad propuso que fuese devuelto a su lugar de origen.El acta del encuentro declaró que la escultura fue robada por las fuerzas británicas en un “saqueo punitivo” en 1897 y que era “el momento adecuado para repatriar el gallo al Palacio Real de Benín en línea con el protocolo existente”.Un portavoz de la Universidad de Cambridge señaló que Jesus College reconocía la “contribución de los estudiantes al plantear la importante pero compleja pregunta en torno a la localización justa de este bronce de Benín”, a lo que ha respondido con la retirada permanente de esta pieza de la sala.

“El college se compromete a trabajar de manera activa con la universidad y con la herencia nigeriana y las autoridades museísticas, para discutir y determinar el mejor futuro para el “okukor”, incluida la petición de repatriación”, indicó.

 

Fuente de la noticia:http://www.alternewsafrica.com/

Fuente de la imagen:http://www.alternewsafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gallo1-220×165.jpg

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Cross River Union, Board Disagree on Teacher Audit

África/Nigeria/Marzo 2016/Fuente: Vanguard. Autor: Ike Uchechukwu

¿Qué ocurre cuando en una institución educativa se detectan anomalías en los títulos de sus docentes? ¿Qué ocurre cuando ésta cirunstancia es detectada como una anomalía de amplio alcance en un sistema educativo? En Nigeria, se han detectado algunos problemas en los certificaos de docentes e distintas instituciones e, incluso, problemas en las certificaciones que se extienden a la falsificación y forjado  de documentos. El texto que a continuación reproducimos nos relata los hallazgos de una auditoría realizada en Nigeria, y la reacción de los docentes afectados o no, quienes a través de la organización que los representa, manifiestan sentirse humillados y estigmatizados.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in Cross Rivers State and the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, are at daggers drawn over the latter’s conduct of personnel audit of teachers in the state.

The bickering reached a climax penultimate week when hundreds of NUT members marched through the major streets of Calabar with placards calling for a halt to the exercise citing alleged humiliation and seizure of their certificates by the SUBEB.

Some of the placards read: «NUT rejects the seizure of original certificates of teachers» and «NUT will never defend fake certificates nor ghost workers», among others.

The state NUT Chairman, Mr. Eyo-Nsa Itam had stated during the protest that it was wrong for SUBEB to confiscate the certificates of teachers on the claim that they were not genuine.

NUT decries alleged disgrace meted to members

Itam, who presented their grievances to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. John Lebo, decried the alleged humiliation of teachers by the SUBEB screening team in virtually all the local government areas visited and called for the immediate sack of the board and return of the confiscated certificates.

He said: «We are here at the state Assembly because we know that the laws emanate from the House. We also know that every political appointee is screened by the House. We want to find out if the SUBEB chairman was asked to seize the original certificates of teachers.

«If we have teachers with fake certificates, they are on their own, we will not support them. Our grievance is with the humiliation where so many teachers were not screened for flimsy excuses while certificates were seized. NUT as a body has rejected the so-called screening. For there to be screening, all the stakeholders must be carried along.»

Dead teacher allegedly draws salary

But the SUBEB chairman, Dr Stephen Odey, while defending the screening exercise said it was to correct obvious anomalies in the system.

He said there had been allegations of ghost teachers and dead persons still drawing salaries, citing the case of a teacher, who died in 2014 but collected salary up till January 2016.

He said: «They never gave me any opportunity neither did they hear from me, I was shocked to see and read in the media allegations from the NUT of how I collected, seized and confiscated certificates.»

«I can confidently tell you that no teacher or any non-teaching staff has been sacked or indicted, I believe I should put the records straight so that Nigerians will know; those allegations are malicious and baseless I could not have stooped so low to pour water on my fellow colleagues (teachers). It is ridiculous that a man of my calibre could be accused for such, I will resign if anyone can come out to prove it,» he said.

He further told Niger Delta Voice that his report would shock Cross River people when it is made public. «The personnel audit is not to witch-hunt any teacher or identify ghost teachers but to also redeploy teachers who have been wrongly placed. There was a teacher who was employed as a nanny after obtaining her NCE she is still in the same position but we did the right thing, I instantly upgraded the teacher.»

Odey however explained that if any teacher’s certificate is suspected to be fake or forged it was his responsibility and that of the board to do something about it stressing that some of their, NUT, branch leaders were with them during the exercise in the Northern Senatorial district.

House of Assembly intervenes, backs screening exercise

Meanwhile, the State House of Assembly has waded into the matter and directed that the screening exercise be put on hold pending the conclusion of investigations into the rift between the NUT and SUBEB.

The House of Assembly made its position known when the SUBEB chairman, Dr Stephen Odey appeared before a special committee set up by the Speaker, Hon John Lebo after the NUT took their protest to the House of Assembly over the «way and manner » the screening exercise was being conducted.

The Special committee Chairman, Hon Friday Okpeche lauded the effort of SUBEB in trying to rid the system of ghost teachers and other forms of irregularities within the primary school system.

«There is no way the Cross River State House of Assembly will allow this kind of rot in the system to continue, we will give you the needed support to succeed in your mandate,» Okpeche stated.

According to him, SUBEB is a creation of the law of the House of Assembly and as such there was no way they would not give their own the needed support.

While calling on the SUBEB boss to carry out his duty diligently within the provisions of the law, the chairman of the special committee however disclosed that the screening exercise has been put on hold pending the conclusion of investigations into the «rift» between the two bodies.

More revelations

The SUBEB boss, Dr. Odey made further startling revelations before the committee that over 200 teachers had been identified as using forged certificate in the system with only nine local government out of the 18 covered in the exercise while some institutions were yet to reply the letters written by SUBEB.

«We have written to several institutions including Colleges of Education in Akampka and Obudu. For instance, in the Ministry of Education, we forwarded 82 names for the verification of their certificates, 60 of such teachers forged their certificates,» Odey disclosed.

Fuente de la noticia:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/nut-subeb-daggers-drawn-audit-teachers-cross-river/

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Nigeria: NASU Demands State of Emergency in Educational Sector

 

África/Nigeria/Marzo 2016/Fuente: Vanguard. Autor: Victor Ahiuma-Young

Resumen: Los miembros de la Unión de Personal no académico de Instituciones Educativas y Asociadas de Nigeria (NASU) en el Consejo de Exámenes del África Occidental, al final de su 36º Congreso Nacional anual, en Jos, estado de Plateau, emitió un comunicado de 9 puntos en el que, reconociendo los esfuerzos del gobierno nigeriano para palear la crisis económica producto de los bajos precios del petroleo, hacen un llamado al gobierno a declarar el estado de emergencia en el sector de la educación, como una forma de elevar el nivel, la calidad de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en las instituciones de Nigeria.

Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has decried the falling standard of education and the appalling state of schools across the country, blaming it on the low budgetary allocation by the government.

Members of NASU in the West African Examination Council, WAEC, in a 9 point communiqué at the end of their 36th annual National Congress, in Jos, Plateau State, called on the government to declare a state of emergency in the educational sector as a way of raising the standard, quality of teaching and learning in the nation’s institutions of learning.

In a communiqué issued by Mr. O. S. Obabunmi and Mrs. O. I. Aje, Chairman and Secretary, respectively, at the end of the conference, NASU lamented the consequences of low budgetary allocation to the sector were being manifested «in falling standard of education and the appalling state of our schools across the country. Therefore, the Congress-In-Session urges the government to declare a state of emergency in the educational sector as a way of raising the standard and quality of teaching and learning in our institutions.»

While equally lamenting the alarming rate of examination malpractices in the nation’s schools, the Congress-In-Session called «on the federal, state and other stakeholders to collaborate with WAEC and other examination bodies in fighting examination fraud in our country. The legislators are hereby called upon to enact enabling laws that would be strong enough to check the activities of those who use modern technology to perpetrate examination injustice and fraud in the country.»

NASU members while appreciating government efforts at addressing the epileptic power supply in the country vehemently opposed the increase in electricity tariff without a corresponding improvement in the power supply.

They contended that the increase had decreased the purchasing power of an average Nigerian and demanded that the «government as a matter of urgency reverses the hike in electricity tariff which tends to plunge the average Nigerian in perpetual misery and poverty.»

NASU in the communiqué also decried the poor state of the Nigerian economy occasioned the dwindling oil prices which the country solely depends on.

The statement added: «This has led to persistent calls for the devaluation of the Naira as a panacea to the economy. We recall with nostalgia, the negative effect of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the Ibrahim Babangida led Military regime and subsequent devaluation of the Naira by successive governments which the country is yet to recover from its ugly effects. The Congress-in-Session therefore, strongly opposes and rejects the call for further devaluation of the Naira, as it has never in the past solved our economic woes. Rather, the Federal government should put policies in place to diversify the economy and improve the infrastructural development that will strengthen the economy.»

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/nasu-demands-state-emergency-educational-sector/

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En Nigeria: Atrapadas en un mundo de hombres

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Por Chika Oduah. Portal Mujeres de Guatemala

Las mujeres sufren constante represión en Nigeria. Con altas tasas de violación y de violencia en el ámbito de la pareja y con la mayoría de los agresores en libertad. A estas violencias cotidianas se suma la alta peligrosidad de las redes de trata y del grupo extremista Boko Haram.

En Nigeria, una mujer no es realmente independiente. Una niña es, generalmente, la propiedad de su padre y de su pariente anciano. Cuando se casa, se convierte en propiedad del marido. En Nigeria todavía existen tradiciones como el rito de las viudas, en el que una mujer debe demostrar que no mató a su marido. O la circuncisión femenina, por la que –con diferentes excusas– una niña es mutilada.

Pero existen más tragedias en Nigeria. La primera de ellas es Boko Haram. La segunda es la trata de personas con fines de explotación. Boko Haram es la secta de islamistas radicales que declaró la guerra al Gobierno de Nigeria en 2009. Este grupo quema iglesias, roba bancos, recluta forzadamente a niños para ser soldados y secuestra a mujeres. El 14 de abril del año pasado, miembros de Boko Haram entraron en un albergue de una escuela secundaria y secuestraron a 276 alumnas. La mayoría de las niñas aún están desaparecidas y el mundo, básicamente, se ha olvidado de ellas.

La trata de personas con fines de explotación es otra violación de los Derechos Humanos de las mujeres. En Nigeria, miles de mujeres son captadas bajo engaño. Se les promete una vida de riquezas en Europa. Cuando llegan, son forzadas a prostituirse para pagar la deuda.

 

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Nigeria invertirá en el ingreso de más docentes en el Sistema Educativo

Nigeria: El número de docentes se duplicará 

05 de Febrero /Nigeria/ Autor; internacional de la educación

El Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) destaca que el anuncio del gobierno Nigeriano se produce en medio de una tendencia de inversión en el ingreso de docentes al sistema educativo en todo el continente. Tanto el gobierno de Tanzania como el de Sudáfrica también han hablado de aumentar los salarios y el número de docentes.

Sin embargo, en lo que respecta a Kenia, el KNUT ha hecho hincapié en cómo se ha desatendido al sector de la educación pública del país durante años. Según el KNUT, esto ha obligado a muchos padres a enviar a sus hijos/as a escuelas privadas, que en su mayor parte están gestionadas por docentes no cualificados.

El sindicato acusa al gobierno keniano de reducir los salarios de los/las docentes, obstaculizar la actividad sindical y asignar recursos insuficientes al sistema escolar. Solo el 10 por ciento de la financiación necesaria para las escuelas procede de fuentes gubernamentales, mientras que se prevé que los costes del material didáctico, la comida y los salarios de los/las docentes aumenten entre un 30 y un 50 por ciento el próximo año.

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.ei-ie.org/spa/news/news_details/3832

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