BY SAM DADA The 21ST Convocation ceremony of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State which held on Saturday, December 7, 2013 will go down as one with a lot of panache. Three major high points of the convocation was, first, breaking the jinx associated with combined convocations, second the Rector’s acknowledged successful stewardship and third, the […]

With twelve days to the end of 2013, it has become imperative for us at Vanguard Learning to take stock of issues and events that shaped the nation’s education sector, while projecting the way forward.

Dele Sobowale Continues from last week The first part of this series ended with the following statement. “If N1 billion was meant for capital and recurrent expenditure [in the nine universities the Federal Government created in 2011], it was clear that neither manpower development nor research would take place in those universities. And, in my […]

Heads of Department of Colleges of Education at the Nigeria French Language Village, Lagos met for three days at the institution’s conference room to chart the way forward.

By Fredrick Okopie The wife of Lagos State governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has commissioned a storey building of 12 classrooms and two 36-seater coaster buses to enhance transportation of students to and from schools at Ijora Olopa in Apapa Local Government of Lagos State. The ultra modern building has well equipped nursery classrooms, convenience, a […]