Educational funding: Babalola slams FG for flouting UNESCO’s recommendation
Legal Luminary and University Administrator, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, has decried the failure of the Federal Government to comply with the recommendations of the United Nations Education and Socio-Cultural Organisation, UNESCO that 26 percent of budgetary allocation should go to funding of education.
UNESCO lauds Ogun over role in sustaining African Culture
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation has lauded Ogun State Government over her cultural exchange programmes towards sustaining the African Culture.
UNESCO, IOM urge countering threats to cultural diversity
Cultural diversity, widely acknowledged as the driving force of change and development, is increasingly under threat, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
Curriculum should include Media & Information Literacy—UNESCO
THE need to separate facts from fiction, have a media development content and create a literate society formed the focus of the first UNESCO National Workshop on Media and Information Literacy, MIL Curriculum Intervention in Nigerian Universities., hosted by Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo
UNESCO report says adult education vital to community’s well-being
A new report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) said that adult learning and education could improve health and well-being, employment opportunities and develop local communities.
NOTAP, UNESCO train 100 researchers on Science & Technology Park
Ahead of the proposed establishment of Nigeria’s Technology Centres by the government, the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have trained over 100 Nigerians on science and technology park research.
Jigawa govt spends N1bn to tackle illiteracy
Jigawa state government has expended the sum of N1billion in the training of 18,000 adults on basic literacy and provision of learning facilities across the state, as part of its efforts to meet the UNESCO standard on the universal education.
TEN MILLION OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN: Facts behind the figures
The report that Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children in the world, has once again buttressed the need for the Federal Government to address the issue as a national emergency, so as to reverse the dangerous slide to illiteracy.
Educationist faults UNESCO report on out-of-school children
DIRECTOR, Whitefield High School, Mr. Luke Onyeanula, has faulted the recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ,UNESCO, report that about 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria, saying that the advent of private schools has been a boost to the education sector.
