Impact of COVID-19 on Education: Series 3
For every action, there’s always a reaction. Just in the same way, situations will almost always trigger consequences and results. The global pandemic has affected far beyond just people’s relationship with one another. It has affected daily businesses and individual livelihood activities. More expectedly, activities of schools and other institutions, have been heavily disrupted. While …
Impact of COVID-19 on Education: Series 2
Due to the total lockdown order given by most governments around the globe in order to contain the spread of COVID-19, a lot of sector especially education has been shut down. As a result of this, approximately 1.725 billion learners were affected by school closures. Consequently, school closures has uncovered some social issues ranging from …
Impact of COVID-19 on Education: Series 1
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a global shock wave. As a means of controlling the spread of this disease, the health advisory committees of different countries presented “lockdown” (alongside other measures) as a crucial and efficient step to take. The impact of these restrictions set in place to check the spread of the disease is enormous, …
INTERNET ADDICTION
“The only difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware they are not free” Nassim Nicholas. Since its initial arrival in the average household, the internet has become a very widely exercised source of communication. At any given moment, there is an endless amount of information streaming through internet accessible computers. The …
Social Construct: What should we do?
It is always very amusing to remember those stories we heard a lot while growing up: that India beat Nigeria 99 to 0 with players that turned shots to meteorites and lions, or that, once you eat a bread eaten by a rat you would hear what rodents say. Or even that when you place …
SCHOOL OUTREACH: CHRISTIAN COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL, IJOMU ORO
On the morning of Thursday, the 19th of March, 2020, Yattiyr Scholarship Initiative (YSI) led a total of five of its members on a ninety-minute drive from Ilorin metropolis to Christian Comprehensive High School, Ojomu Oro, Kwara State. It was an amiable reception by the School’s representative to YSI, Mrs Madandola, as well as from …
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YSI FREE UTME COACHING
Annually, the fates of students in their academic pursuits for higher degrees are determined by a set score line in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). UTME (also popularly called JAMB) is a general examination used as a screening tool and a measure of academic competence for students seeking access to higher institutions. In recent …
Effective Communicators
A particular problem seems to persist among students in this country. A while back, Yattiyr Scholarship Initiative organized outreaches for secondary schools with the goal of enhancing critical thinking and problem solving skills. During the exercise, the students were to present problems and solutions that exist in their respective schools. Even though the students were …
WHO WILL BELL THE CAT?
You must have read this story in your English Language class but I will tell it to you again. There lived a hunter who was so sad his house had become a breeding ground for mice. Who would believe a hunter couldn’t handle little rats; they must have been smart and determined to stay forever. …