Education stakeholders under the auspices of Ikorodu Division Human Resource Development Board brain stormed recently on modality of finding lasting solution to the causes of the abysmal failures of our children and wards in their examinations.

Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is Chairman Senate Committee on Education. In this interview with Vanguard Education Weekly Bagudu says tertiary institutions should be given freedom to develop at their own pace just as he discloses that President Goodluck Jonathan is setting up a task force among other issues, to return about eight million children out of school to classrooms.

By Adekunle Aliyu Nigerians have been urged to positively and effectively invest on their children and wards in order to make them tomorrow’s  worthy leaders that the nation would all be very proud of. These remarks were made by a seasoned Senior Psychiatrist Consultant of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Dr Yewande Oshodi, at […]

Addressing the workers in Lagos State University premises last week, during a rally organized by the university lecturers, the National Coordinator of ERC, Hassan Soweto expressed his sympathy with the striking workers for what they have suffered since 2009 the agreement was reached, insisting that their demand was genuine and worthy of attention of any government interested in the repositioning of what he called the nation’s battered education sector.

One of the challenges in tertiary education is that of inadequate space as we are not able to accommodate all the qualified candidates. We cannot ignore that fact because if you don’t give them proper alternative we are going to have miscreants in the society. So the whole range of tertiary education must be developed to make it attractive. If you cannot go to the university, you must be able to go to the polytechnic.

In the first decade after independence, there was free-flowing access to education at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary (university specifically).

A new Executive Secretary for the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna has been approved by the Federal Government. He is Dr Masaúdu Kazaure, who until the appointment was the Rector of Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic, Kazaure, Jigawa State.

TWENTY secondary school students, whose artistic works were adjudged as outstanding out of the 216 students who submitted entries for this year’s NNPC/Chevron Art competition, were honoured with plaques and mouth-watering monetary reward during the exhibition/prize-giving ceremony which held recently at Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja.

To save Nigeria education system from further collapse and deterioration, His eminence, Anthony Cardinal Okogie of Lagos Archdiocese has called on government at all levels to return all the mission schools in their possession back to the original owners to enable them revamp them and take them back to their former glory.

The Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Prof. Oluwafemi Mimiko has called for a critical review of the political structure in Nigeria in order to legitimize good governance, bring down corruption, end alienation and enhance the delivery of the capacity of the Nigeria state.

Dressed in their various beautiful traditional wears, the pupil, parents, and teachers of St. Saviour school Ebute Meta couldn’t hide their excitement as they celebrate the schools’ annual cultural day on Tuesday September 28 at the school premises.

Delivering a lecture at the Sixth Tai Solaring National annual lecture held at the Bankers House Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria on the topic; Nigeria: corruption, corrosion and correction Professor Muhammad Munzali Jibril said corruption in Nigeria has had a long, even respectable history.

VICE Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, Professor Bartho Okolo said that the N3.8 billion digital wireless infrastructure project which would be launched by President Goodluck Jonathan during his visit to the university on Thursday (today) would increase economic activities through research and enhance learning environment in the institution.

On the part of parents, she decried the neglect of close monitoring of students and follow-up in their respective departments to check the performance of their children, saying, “only a few parents believe that they have any role to play towards seeing their children through.”

Rising from its 72nd national executive council meeting in Lagos, the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has described as unacceptable the continued poor results of WAEC and NECO candidates saying that it is an indictment on the education system in the country.