The Chairman of Okirighwre Community, Chief John Eritobor; an ex-officio of the community’s Executive Committee, Hon. Venture Kagbude; and the President General of Amukpe community, Mr Williams Ojo; all in Sapele Local Government area of Delta State, have bagged the 2013 Honorary Award of the National Association of South South Student’s Assembly, (NASSA), for what the students’ body describe as “their selfless service to humanity.

THESE may not be the best of times for the Nigerian education sector as the comprehensive and indefinite strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has continued. Twelve weeks on, and with no end in sight to the impasse between the union and the Federal Government, Vanguard Learning critically examines issues raised by the industrial action.

As one of Nigeria’s premier college, Kings College, Lagos, celebrates its 104th Founder’s Day, the Kings College Old Boys Association, KCOBA, has set in motion activities to make the celebration a grand one.

The Akwa Ibom Youth Development Association has said that it will only support a candidate that has sustainable youth empowerment programmes in the 2015 governorship elections. The Chairman Board of Trustees, Ibom Youth Pathfinder, Mr. Nsikak Tom Udo, in a statement said: “We will carefully assess and scrutinize the youth employment agendas of the various aspirants for 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State and decide who to adopt.”

The National Association of Oduduwa Students (NAOS), a socio-cultural group of Yoruba undergraduate students, recently recognised the American University Yola, AUN, as the ‘Most Outstanding University in Nigeria 2013’ while the President of the institution, Professor Margee Ensign, was given the ‘Pillar of Education Award’ for inspiring growth and development in Nigeria.

A DELEGATION from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, led by its Registrar, Professor ’Dibu Ojerinde, paid a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie to discuss issues relating to admission irregularities in the Nigerian University System (NUS).

A DELEGATION from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, led by its Registrar, Professor ’Dibu Ojerinde, paid a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie to discuss issues relating to admission irregularities in the Nigerian University System (NUS).

The National Universities Commission (NUC), on Tuesday, 10 September, 2013, organised a workshop on the Development of Learning Outcomes for Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for undergraduate programmes in the NUS. In a welcome address, the Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, said that the first Minimum Academic Standards (MAS) for 13 disciplines, were developed in 1989 and served as a reference document for the first accreditation exercise in the system, in 1990. He said that the MAS was reviewed, in 2004, through a process that led to the evolution of the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS).

The management of the Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, has hired nine professors into different faculties of the institution.

The Executive Director, Corporate Services, UAC Nigeria Plc, Mr. Joe Dada has vowed that the company will do her best to stem the falling education sector in Nigeria. Speaking at the round-off ceremony of the 2013 free holiday coaching organised by UAC under its Goodness League initiative for students of secondary schools in Lagos State, Dada noted that the quest by UAC to arrest the situation has been on since 2008.