AS we all get ready to pop champagne to celebrate a remarkable year and count down to 2013, we at Vanguard Learning bring you a collection of stories that made 2012 outstanding.

Professor Florence Banku Obi is the Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Calabar (UNICAL). She spoke on sundry issues affecting students and lecturers in the Education sector and the way forward. Excepts.

Amidst hues and cries from some quarters that the rot in infrastructure in tertiary education system is becoming too alarming, former Special Adviser to former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Prof. Tunde Samuel, has called on government at federal and state levels to totally deregulate the system, given the macro economic reality on ground.

The duo of Master Isa Bello Suleiman of Zamani College, Kaduna; and Miss Imoh Daniel of Army Day Secondary School, Cross River State have shun in Africa continent as they emerged the 2012 Country Winners in the Essay and Poster categories respectively at 2012 DSTV Eutelsat Star Award winners.

The Littoral University community gathered recently at Shito Seme to commemorate the endorsement by the government of Republic of Benin for the school to kick off as a full fledge university system after several years of struggle to upgrade its status from the School of Part Time.