“A photo is going viral on social media with claims that Najeeb Ahmad of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has joined the jihadist group, ISIS. We found that the image is old and has no connection with Najeeb.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
Education
653 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Public school enrolments have surged but the Liberals have closed 15 more schools than they've opened since 2011.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Spin
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: The NSW Government has indeed closed 15 more schools than it has opened over the past eight years — but Mr Daley's claim is spin. Mr Daley, in fact, understates the number of schools closed compared to the number of new…
“Video of leaping whale in school hall is a hologram”
Africa Check rated this: False
“The images of women featured in the Anti Hate Challenge actually shows students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and not Pakistan.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“ABVP has won the student body election at Kochi University by a huge majority, defeating SFI.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“The video is recent and shows students of CH Mohammed Koya Memorial College in Kerala raising the flags of terrorist organisations – ISIS and Al-Qaeda.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“A claim that 65% children of the poor do not have access to early education”
DUBAWA rated this: This claim is True.
“Mandatory FGM check-up for school girls in Narok County”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“Claims that 60 million Nigerian youths and adults are illiterate; of which 60% are female, and 11 million are out-of school.”
DUBAWA rated this: The claim is False.
“Through the N-Power scheme, 500,000 graduates have been employed to date. The National Home-Grown School Feeding program is feeding 9,300,892 pupils in 49, 837 schools in 24 states across Nigeria, and empowering 96,972 cooks; The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program has seen to the disbursement of 1,378,804 loans to small businesses and farmers in all states including the FCT.”
DUBAWA rated this: This claim is unproven
“Kenya makes Chinese language compulsory in schools”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE HEADLINE
“Income eligibility has been raised from 2 lakh rupees to 2.5 lakh rupees for the pre-metric scholarship for SC students.”
FACTLY rated this: TRUE
“Last year Delhi govt schools had 2% better result than private schools, this year it is 9% better”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE