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Dear all,

For a limited time, the African Virtual School is offering free access to our Maths and English revision courses. Simply visit us at www.africanvirtualschool.com, create a free account and start revising.

Thanks

The AVS Team
PS: Why are we doing this? Just giving something back.

We have moved the tutor section to www.pass.com.ng .

enyojo: I got this list from Planespotters.net, a civil aviation database with 200000+ photos and information on 30000+ aircrafts. And what you will find after the cut is a comprehensive list of all aircrafts used in Nigeria and their ages. There's actually a 40+ year old plane flying in Nigeria. Wow! See it after the cut...

Here is the same info - the african virtual school shows it http://www.africanvirtualschool.com/average-age-of-nigerian-aircraft/ .

Hi fema,

Just Click here and apply for membership: http://www.essaypractice.co.uk/entry/register?Target=categories%2Fdiscussions

and I was too quick: the user name ,

That should teach me to throw stones from my glass house,

One of the best ways to improve your essay is to write essays and hopefully get feedback on how you could do better. www.essaypractice.co.uk is a free site created by the same team behind the African Virtual School. If you are preparing for their English exams, register for free and submit your essay for review. If you are registering from here, please send me a private message with then user name you used to register. This is to stop spammers.

PS: You will all agree with me that the standard of English on this forum is sometimes atrocious.

May I also point out two projects I am involved with: The African Virtual School is an online Maths/English revision site for Jamb (http://www,africanvirtualschool.com ). For Maths, we have a book on Amazon (just search for the African Virtual School Maths Book).

Also, to help with English, we have a completely free site called Essay Practice (www.essaypractice.co.uk ). Submit your essays and receive feedback from the community.

To your success.

If the answer is yes, then register for free at the African Virtual School Tutor Portal http://www.africanvirtualschool.com/tutors/register_tutor.php. This free portal allows students looking for a tutor to search and find you. It is beta at the moment so if you find something not working, please comment here.

Thanks and have a blessed Sunday.

I think the problem with 234Next was that they created a traditional news organisation, without taking into consideration that newspapers all over the world are finding it tough.  They could have focused on just an online presence to start with.  This would have saved money on printing and distribution.

Unfortunately, they really seem to be out of money even for their online operations as the front page is full of recycled international news; something almost all readers in Nigeria and abroad can also get from CNN, The Times and the likes.

Read the bestseller:

http://www.africanvirtualschool.com/how-to-pass-waec-neco-and-jamb-exams/

The other problem is the cost of distribution. A $10 dollar book on Amazon will be shipped to you mostly for free and will cost $10. A N 1500 will have a shipping cost of sometimes N1500. This gives a total price of N3000 (almost double). Also the margins on books/cds can be quite small. And I agree with the credit card problem. So for e-commerce to work, there should be

1. An easy way to pay
2. Low distribution cost

It is no wonder that they are sticking to dealfish (no inventory costs)

The free site www.essaypractice.co.uk helps students put their writing out there and receive valuable feedback all for free.

[Disclaimer: This site is a sister site to The African Virtual School]

Answers below please?


Ok, I'll start - Students do not read or write enough. The standard of English in the media is generally poor. What do you think?

Here are my thoughts:

I would focus on Print on Demand (POD). So the chains will print the books on the spot as distributing books is hard in Nigeria. For my sins, this is what my fledging start up the African Virtual School has been battling with for some time now - Our books are available on Amazon. Here is an example of one, Olabisi's Party and other stories http://www.amazon.com/Olabisis-Party-Other-Stories-African/dp/0955759676/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317719338&sr=8-2 and here is an example of another, a maths book for JSS pupils http://www.amazon.com/African-Virtual-School-Maths-Book/dp/0955759633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317719338&sr=8-1.

A second idea might be to have a Kindle Lending Club, may be cheaper in the long run than physical books.

@Salesauto - you pay for the exams.  Could be up to $100.

I think it's a good attempt. Will give students in Nigeria and elsewhere the chance to have a good education at low cost.

Folks, especially those in Lagos Can you reply to this thread please?

Does your office use Microsoft Outlook (version please), Yahoo Mail or Google Mail?
Does your office use Microsoft Word (which version?), Open office or Google Docs?
Does your office use Microsoft Excel (which version?), Open Office or Google Spreadsheets?
Does your office use Windows XP, or Windows Vista or any version of Linux?

Thanks

One way to look at it would be, Would your child be at a disadvantage compared to the children who do homework?

Let x = b²,

So we have x + 1/x = 2 [ subtract 2 from both sides]

Multiply both sides by x, this will give x² + 1 = 2x because x * 1/ x = 1

so we now have x² - 2x + 1 = 0 [ subtract 2x from both sides]

This equation has a well known answer: (x-1)(x-1) = 0 [ check your algebra book]

So x = 1, which means b² = 1, or b = 1

Check: 1 + 2 + 1/1 = 4

If you have access, try these:

http://www.slideshare.net/wilfredw/decimals-wwwprimemathscouk-1419946

or http://www.primemaths.co.uk - online maths revision

or http://www.africanvirtualschool.com - maths, english and ict distance learning.

We also have a youtube channel for visual learners (http://www.youtube.com/user/africanvirtualschool). African Virtual School is work in progress so not yet complete.

Disclaimer: I work for both primemaths and africanvirtualschool

Maybe, They were made an offer they could not refuse?

Maybe, They were made an offer they could not refuse?

Wow. This thread has really moved on. This is a simple one we did for early secondary school (Sierra Leonean names and currency used)


Adama, Jeneba and Isatu share Le 12,000 in the ratio 1:2:3. How much money did Jeneba get?



We decided to use visual answers, here on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MTF66l_b_c

Enjoy.

You can't beat hands-on practical skills! Well done to him.

Dear,

I would like your thoughts on this project.  We created a distance learning school (www.africanvirtualschool.com) with the aim of offering qualifications in Maths, English and ICT.     The target are adults and students who for one reason or another did not complete their schooling.   It would allow them to get basic qualifications for work.  Would you enrol in such a school?  Are we missing something?


Thanks

As a gift for your feedback, I am including a sample from "Worked Examples in Probability" for WAEC, NECO, JAMB exam preparation.

Just a quick note:

85% of students doing their Waec, Neco or Jamb exams fail English and Maths.  It does not surprise me that so many of them struggle with the language.

Me thinks that the real reason is the lack of enforceability (is there such a word?) of laws. It should be possible to pay monthly but equally possible to quickly eject someone who is in arrears and claim the backlog against his future earnings. Our biggest problem in this regard is the ability to properly identify citizens and also being able to measure their credit worthiness.

seun - PAYG Rent is a good idea if and only if tenants can be quickly evicted if they default. Just like the phone companies just stop you from making calls.

In our church, we have an exam prayer wall where students and other exam takers can post prayer requests in relation to exams. We had an idea to create a virtual exam prayer wall so that other people could take advantage of this too. My questions:

1) Do you think this is a good idea and why?
2) If you think it is, would you post an exam prayer request to such a site?
3) Have I missed something?


Thanks

Good luck to all in their exams.

Maybe local developers should focus more on subscription based web hosted software. Will keep people on the straight and narrow.