Picking holes in Alausa’s proposal to scrap JSS,SSS education system
Government remains hyper-focused on the “quantity” of out-of-school children while ignoring the “quality” of the education being offered
Okopoly reacts to allegation of awarding marks to deceased student
“We already have names of the staff and clear evidence of their involvement. The matter is being handled,” he said. On the allegations that students of Oko were no longer admitted in other institutions of learning because of dwindling standards in the Polytechnic, Onuchukwu said it was untrue.
Research should be directed at solving problems — Prof. Frank Ogbo
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ahaneku, set up the committee to provide a platform by which researches done in the university can impact the society, particularly communities around us. The university does research and teaching but a lot of the research is lost on book shelves and libraries and society does not benefit from it.
Don’t forget old agreements’ – ASUU, NANS, NAPS to Buhari’s administration
“Nigerian students demand for free and affordable education from secondary to tertiary institution, reduction in exorbitant school fees; lasting solutions to HND/Bsc dichotomy as well as subverting seasonal industrial strikes in the subsector.” The BSc/HND disparity was also a sore spot for the Senate President of the National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, Mr. Adeyemi Lukman who called on the new administration to “revisit pending issues in the sector.
Academics ponder energy-saving techniques
Although there might be some variations across board, many Nigerians sum up the country’s problems in three words: Power, power and power. At the height of the recent fuel crisis, even multinationals and financial giants considered reducing their office hours to save power. Although in the long term, there are hopes for increased power generation, improved power transmission and distribution services, as well as alternative sources of energy, experts say that making efforts to save energy could be an immediate as well as a long term solution to the power situation.
NECO to introduce CBT in subsequent exams — Board chairman
The National Examination Council (NECO) will introduce Computer-Based Test (CBT) in objective papers of its subsequent examinations, says Dr Paddy Njoku, the Chairman, NECO Governing Board. Njoku made this known on Thursday in Abuja during the board’s monitoring visit to the Model Secondary School, Maitama, centre of NECO Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
