"You Are Free To Leave Kaduna If You Are Not Interested In Sending Your Child To School"- Gov El-Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said parents who are not ready to send their children to school are free to leave the State. According to the governor, the rate of illiteracy among the children is very high and his administration won't tolerate that. He stated this at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, during the screening of the “He named me Malala,” documentary organised by his wife, Hadiza El-Rufai. “You can leave Kaduna State if you don’t want to send your child to school next month. No street begging again. 

All our children must go to school. Any parent who refuses to send his or her child to school will be prosecuted and sent to prison.” His administration has also awarded scholarships to 40 girls to study Medicine in Uganda as a way of encouraging girl-child education. 

The governor’s wife said; “I wish to start by thanking all of you for coming to this screening of the ‘He named me Malala Documentary.’ While most of us know Malala as the 19-year-old Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize
winner, it is important to know where her journey started. 

“Malala was just a regular Pakistani girl with a penchant for education until in 2012 when her pursuit for education resulted in her being shot and put in a coma. The attack receivedworldwide condemnation, she has since recovered from the tragedy and has translated this tragedy to worldwide advancements in girl child education.

“In Kaduna State, we are working assiduously to create opportunities, the percentage of girls out of school is way too high and this is a problem we have decided to solve. 

In cognisance of this, we are working hard to increase female enrolment in good schools, improve school curriculum and make affordable health care available for everyone.”

Overconfidence can lead to poor decision making, Neuroscientists reveal

The link between overconfidence and poor decision making is under the spotlight in an international study by scientists from Monash University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.

People vary widely in their awareness of what they do and don't know, or metacognitive ability, and in general are too confident when evaluating their performance. This often leads to poor decision making with potentially disastrous consequences, according to the report's authors.

The team has published a study in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience which provides some insight into how overconfidence can lead to poor decision making.

The authors include an international group of scientists at the Department of Social Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute, headed by Professor Tania Singer, in collaboration with Dr Pascal Molenberghs from the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences and Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Dr. Anne Böckler and Dr. Philipp Kanske from the Max Planck institute team.

They analysed data from the ReSource Project, which is a unique, large scale study on Eastern and Western methods of mental training performed at the Max Planck Institute. In the context of a social cognition task performed in the brain scanner, the volunteers watched a video of a person telling a story and then had to answer a difficult question about what the person said.

Subsequently, people indicated how confident they felt their response was correct. The researchers then measured how good people were in evaluating their own accuracy; a process called metacognition.

"The more confident people were about their performance, the higher the activation in brain areas such as the striatum, an area often associated with reward processing," first author Dr Molenberghs said.

"However, too much confidence was associated with lower metacognitive ability," co-first author Mr Trautwein added.

When combined, the results indicate that although being confident entails a reward-like component, it can lead to overconfidence which in turn can undermine decision making.

Source: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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