A new 9-year basic education curriculum (BEC) which has only ten subject listings instead of the one presently being used at the basic education level which has 20 subject listings, is to be used for teaching and learning throughout the country, beginning from next year.

In recognition of the significant roles of primary school teachers in basic education delivery and child moulding, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles has organised a one-day seminar for more than 2000 teachers in public and private schools in Lagos State.

Before 1958, when oil was discovered in Olobiri, in present day Bayelsa State, Niger-Delta region, three existing regions, comprising the West, East and North harnessed and utilised to the fullest, the God-given natural resources domiciled in their regions.

Professor Timothy Oyebode Olagbemiro is the Vice- Chancellor of Bowen University and the Chairman, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of Private Universities. In this interview, he speaks on the education sector and the need to improve the system.

No fewer than 300 indigent students of Badagry area of Lagos State benefited from free General Certificate of Education, GCE, forms presented by a Lagos State House of Assembly member, Mr. Ibrahim Layode representing Badagry Constituency I.

Bravehearts Initiative, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, in collaboration with the university’s students’ union held its maiden programme tagged: “LASU graduate summit 2012.”

ONE of the graduating law students of University of Jos, Ntor George, has emerged overall winner of the maiden edition of National Youth Service Corps annual essay writing competition/national symposium organised by the Bible Society of Nigeria, BSN.

…UTME may have worsened situation
WITH no more than 38 per cent of applicants sure to gain admission into the nation’s higher institutions this year, attention of students has started shifting from universities to polytechnics and colleges of education. The grass, however, is not greener on the other side as a large number of students still struggle for limited admission spaces.

Nigerians in different fields of endeavours are constantly coming up with new inventions and innovations; yet, the nation still has a very long way to go in the area of technological development. There is a problem no doubt, which government and corporate organisations must address if Nigeria must be reckoned with technologically.

National Universities Commission, NUC is making frantic efforts to correct the employment imbalance in the number of graduates churned out from universities across the nation.