Many challenges are facing Nigerian universities. They range from brain drain, poor funding, examination malpractice, unstable academic calendar, and the low global ranking, among others. Over the years, the issue of ranking has become important […]
The phrase, “It is the turn of our own son/daughter to be appointed as vice chancellor,” is holding sway in most Nigerian universities and the immediate past minister of education, Adamu Adamu once faulted the […]
Johnson Akinleye, Ph.D., became the 12th Chancellor of North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in 2017. NCCU is a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) based in Durham, North Carolina. Prior to his appointment, Mr Akinleye […]
The need to have an operating document for the smooth running of Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, has prompted the convergence of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion and Methodist Church to sign the college’s governance Memorandum […]
Lagos State University (LASU) on Tuesday said there would be an extension of the deadline for prospective candidates to register for the online 2018/2019 admission screening. The institution’s Spokesman, Mr Ademola Adekoya, made this known […]
Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mrs. Ronke Soyombo, has warned against the dangers of allowing 19th Century teachers in a 21st century educational scene. Soyombo, who spoke during a […]
Gone are those days when the quest to be ranked among the educated elites in the country is our first priority. Farewell to those days when Nigerian parents put their farms and property for sale […]
The country should do more to support education The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education (NMEC), said recently that 35 per cent of the nation’s adult population was illiterate, and it had […]
The last time the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu quaked was in 2011. That was when the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) withdrew accreditation for all programmes offered by the institution. The […]
In great institutions of higher learning, academics are encouraged to disseminate their ideas and research to lay people, as much as they are encouraged to do so with their peers. That is the whole idea […]
Although the Federal Government has been vacillating over the proscription of the Almajiri system practised mainly in the northern part of the country the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to governors, the other day, seemed […]
On Wednesday, Laolu Akande, spokesman to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, tweeted that his principal “is in the UK to witness the son’s graduation ceremony.” In the blink of an eye, that tweet triggered a heated debate […]
Accord Concordia! That’s how the flamboyant Second Republic politician, the bombastic K. O. Mbadiwe, of blessed memory, would have described Wednesday, July 3rd 2019’s landmark move towards resolving the almost 20 years old feud between […]
I consider this a special privilege and high honor to be invited to deliver this Seventh Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe Memorial lecture. I am, indeed, very grateful to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, […]
Teaching children should be a social service, a humanitarian venture and not business but it appears to be a business in Nigeria. There aren’t school farms anymore; hardly do you see schools with sports ground […]
Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com, 07055841236 “Since education is everybody’s business, all Nigerians should support the effort towards educational development. Universities should not be established just to boost the ego of rich individuals and […]
The ranking of higher institutions of learning has since become a global practice. Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities and Times Higher Education World University Ranking have globally ranked universities periodically. It is a form […]
Stakeholders in the education sector including teachers and students from the Department of Foreign Languages have emphasised the need for government to make French the second official language in the country as part of efforts […]
We were guests of the Old Grammarians Society, the quaint name by which alumni of the CMS Grammar School, Bariga address themselves during the celebration of their school’s 160th anniversary. In the days leading to […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has called for an embargo on the creation of new public and private universities in the country. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated this, noting that emphasis should […]
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