Lagos opens Nigeria’s first alternative school for girls
The school is designed to admit girls who dropped out of school due to early marriage, poverty, teenage pregnancy, displacement and so on
Stanbic IBTC offers school fees payment solutions to parents, guardians
As schools reopen for another term, Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has again reassured parents and guardians of the bank’s readiness to help offset the financial burden of paying their children/wards fees through its school fees payment solutions.
Don tasks Accounting professionals on professionalism
A PROFESSOR of Accounting, currently anchoring the establishment of a PhD Accounting programme at Babcock University Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, has urged the first set of matriculated PhD students to always make professionalism their watchword, just as he told the lecturers to ensure they leave a last long legacy for their students.
Special education: Challenges, way forward
By Ebele Orakpo & Amaka Abayomi The sun will shine on those who are standing before it shines on those who kneel under them. – Prof Chinua Achebe This famous quote from the late Professor Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, seems to be the attitude of government and society towards education of people with special needs […]
The Okowa agenda to ‘leapfrog’ education
Worried by the poor education standard in the country, and Delta State in particular, the state government, last week, held a two-day summit to find lasting solution to the problems faced in the sector.
500,000 unemployed graduates as teachers: Solving one problem to create more?
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to provide 500,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates jobs in the teaching profession, has attracted manifold reactions from stakeholders in the education sector. While a school of thought views it as a good policy thrust on tackling unemployment among youths, it is, however, perceived by many as a bid to solve one problem, which may lead to creating more in the process.
