Lagos opens Nigeria’s first alternative school for girls
The school is designed to admit girls who dropped out of school due to early marriage, poverty, teenage pregnancy, displacement and so on
ESSO trains 25 Geosciences lecturers
Twenty-five lecturers drawn from five universities in the country’s North Central zone have been trained in the 4th edition of the University Assistance Programme (UAP) training workshop, sponsored by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil in Nigeria.
NUC misapplied universities’ money, bungled courses accreditation – ASUU President,
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, in this interview, blames government for the dwindling fortunes of education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) for misapplying universities’ Stabilization Fund.
S. African university in “global war for very best academic talent”
Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand launched a campaign to attract Africa’s top postgraduate talent Tuesday, intensifying the continent’s battle for brains.
ASUU collaborated with administrators to run universities aground – Okojie
As the face -off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lingers, the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, in this interview, exonerates government from blame over the decay in universities. Excerpts of interview:
WAEC’s exams and growing pains of the education sector
The release of the 2012/2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) last week, has once again spotlighted the crisis bedeviling the education sector.
