Education

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 […]

In Nigeria, the study of History isn’t dead; but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is alive. Perhaps it is in that twilight zone where life and death commingle. It was fitting that a concerned senior […]

Medical students are required to do seven years in the universities and not 11 as erroneously reported in some news media recently. The National Universities Commission (NUC), made the clarification during interview with NAN in […]

WAS a pupil sexually assaulted by a teacher at Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos Mainland? This is the puzzle the school is battling to unravel, even as Senior Secondary Three (SSS III) pupils abandoned their mock […]

With  so  much  disparagement of the nation’s education in recent times  on account of an often-decried crash of its  standard, the National Universities Commission (NUC) would not have provoked so much controversy  if it had predicated  […]

Children as young as eight are being paid teaching salaries by the state as part of identity fraud in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Bauchi, officials have found. The scam, which involves drawing the salaries […]

The idea of the global ranking of universities has become a veritable means by which we assess the performance of various universities across the continent. It is no longer news that most African universities struggle […]

THE Department of Psychology, University of Lagos (UNILAG) yesterday hosted its star graduate, Ayodele Daniel Dada. He is the university’s overall best graduating student for the 2014/2015 academic session. The department hosted also four others […]

While the furore surrounding the 2016 federal budget was yet to abate, another perhaps more embarrassing one flared about two weeks ago with the report of the removal of 13 federal university (including the National […]

Since the naira began to fall like the Tower of Pisa and President Muhammadu Buhari adamantly maintained what he would not do (rather than state what he will do), Nigerians have undertaken the praiseworthy initiative […]

The removal of the vice-chancellors once again conjures up the arbitrariness in the system A group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society groups last week shut down the entrance of the National Assembly […]

Authorities of the University of Lagos on Wednesday declared a Psychology graduand, Ayodele Dada, as the best in the institution’s history. Dada scored a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 5.00. No candidate has ever obtained […]

Unless the federal government offers financial assistance to private universities, many of the institutions may collapse soon. The above is the fear of the Vice Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, Prof Tunji Ibiyemi. […]

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised candidates who registered for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to print their examination notification slips. Its Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said candidates […]