King’s College Concession: FG, Labour agree 2-week review
The Minister gave an “ironclad assurance” that no staff of King’s College would be victimised through retrenchment, posting or demotion
Education goes digital as Sidmach, NERDC launch e-curriculum portal
IN a bid to help lift up the Nigerian education system to the mainstream of global digital revolution, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited has partnered the National Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to introduce a new software solution called NERDC e-Curriculum Portal.
Minister seeks SURE-P intervention for training of teachers
The Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, last weekend, called on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, to intervene in the training of teachers for improved quality of education and national development.
Payment of WAEC fees by govts is waste of resources — ASUSS chairman
Comrade Ranti Ojo Matthew is the Kogi State Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS). In this interview, he bares his mind on Federal Government’s attitude and the way forward for the education sector amidst other issue
Varsities Talk: How to choose the university to attend (2)
Most people sending their kids to university, and the youngsters themselves seldom bother to find out who is the Vice-Chancellor (or President if an American University) of the university under consideration. That is a pity.
Science education in Nigeria below mark, says former NUC scribe
FORMER Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola has frowned at the quality of science education in Nigeria describing it as way below the mark. He made this assessment in Asaba when winners of the 2014 NNPC/MPN/STAN science quiz winners emerged at the 55th annual Conference of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN).
