Education stakeholders under the auspices of Ikorodu Division Human Resource Development Board brain stormed recently on modality of finding lasting solution to the causes of the abysmal failures of our children and wards in their examinations.

Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is Chairman Senate Committee on Education. In this interview with Vanguard Education Weekly Bagudu says tertiary institutions should be given freedom to develop at their own pace just as he discloses that President Goodluck Jonathan is setting up a task force among other issues, to return about eight million children out of school to classrooms.

By Adekunle Aliyu Nigerians have been urged to positively and effectively invest on their children and wards in order to make them tomorrow’s  worthy leaders that the nation would all be very proud of. These remarks were made by a seasoned Senior Psychiatrist Consultant of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Dr Yewande Oshodi, at […]

Addressing the workers in Lagos State University premises last week, during a rally organized by the university lecturers, the National Coordinator of ERC, Hassan Soweto expressed his sympathy with the striking workers for what they have suffered since 2009 the agreement was reached, insisting that their demand was genuine and worthy of attention of any government interested in the repositioning of what he called the nation’s battered education sector.

One of the challenges in tertiary education is that of inadequate space as we are not able to accommodate all the qualified candidates. We cannot ignore that fact because if you don’t give them proper alternative we are going to have miscreants in the society. So the whole range of tertiary education must be developed to make it attractive. If you cannot go to the university, you must be able to go to the polytechnic.