Education

For too long, the Federal  Ministry of Education  let its parastatals and tertiary institutions loose to subject young people in schools to tension and anxiety over numerous   examinations  they have to take in one form […]

The recruitment of the 500,000 teachers promised by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy Day speech starts on Sunday. According to a statement on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media […]

Let me confess from the outset that the fantastic title of this article is not original to me. It belongs to a concerned foreigner, Keith Richards who in an article on a similar subject in […]

Education stakeholders, including a legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, on Saturday, faulted the scrapping of the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. While […]

The Federal Government Thursday scrapped the conduct of post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates seeking admission into higher institution. The government explained that all tertiary institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for […]

Dear Sir, I am writing you this letter hoping it will provoke an urgent reaction from you thereby saving our education system from further decay. A situation brought about by poor policy decisions that have […]

There is good sense in partnering with the British Council to build the capacity of teachers In his 2016 budget presentation to the National Assembly last December, President Muhammadu Buhari announced his plan to “partner […]

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was the most handsome old man I have ever met. At 90, he was erect and his body was smooth like a man of 60. In 1994 I had gone to Onuiyi […]

The Federal Government will no longer accommodate untrained teachers in its school system, irrespective of the subjects they teach, Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has said. In an interview in Abuja, Anwukah […]

•The government must consult wider; but religious lobbies must open their minds, if new curriculum on religion and citizenship must succeed There is a storm over a new Basic Education curriculum, which by its designers, […]

The incessant closure of public tertiary institutions due to internal strife has become very disturbing as it reflects not only the level of degeneration in the quality of our students but also the decay in […]

A few days ago, Malia Obama’s unsurprising decision to attend Harvard was significantly overshadowed by her far more unconventional decision to take a gap year. At the tender age of 17, Malia has already interned […]

One of various social-psychological theories explaining the basis for aggressive responses is the frustration-aggression assumption, which justifies that people resort to aggressive behaviours when overtly frustrated. Frustration is usually occasioned by unattended needs which have […]

The University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, has been shut indefinitely. This followed a two-day protest by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), seeking the reinstatement of a rusticated 500 Level student of Petroleum […]

Last Friday, the University of Lagos announced May 2 resumption date for students of the institution which was shut on April 8. The closure followed protest, mainly over lack of regular electricity and water on […]

It is good for Nigeria’s image that, for the second consecutive year, a Nigerian-born high school student has been accepted to study at all of the eight Ivy League universities in the United States. Coming […]

Authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, have ordered the immediate closure of the institution, ordering all students to vacate halls of residence before 10am yesterday (Friday). In a release by its Management, the Senate […]

My intention today is simple. For those who have a sense of history, the recent alleged child molestation scandal that rocked the Queen’s College, Lagos has cast a shadow on the reputation of Nigeria’s elite […]

The West African Examinations Council has announced the 2015 International Excellence Award, with Ghana again leading Nigeria, among other West African countries, in the academic honours’ roll. The PUNCH learnt that three Ghanaians from the […]

Since the introduction of computer-based JAMB tests three years ago, the level of anxiety around admission into tertiary institutions in the country has increased enormously. While some see it as a demonstration that the country […]