Stories from Nigerian schools
Results season, school fees, parents and everything in between, written for the people who run schools and the parents who trust them.
The scratch card queue: what checking a school result should feel like
A parent, a scratch card, a failed PIN and a long wait. The story of how Nigerian parents check school results, and why it should take one ID and one minute.
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Score sheets passed hand to hand, totals added at midnight, a missing Basic Science sheet. Inside a Nigerian school's results season, and how to shorten it.
Read the story“Madam, I have paid”: a bursar, a ledger and the school fees nobody can find
Bank alerts with no names, a carbon receipt book, a debtors list nobody trusts. A school bursar's term, and what changes when each payment is recorded once.
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