Education

One theme that underlies and runs through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched with fanfare last week by world leaders in the United Nations is education. In Goal-4, the SDGs explicitly commit “to ensure inclusive […]

School-age children of Internally Displaced Persons in some parts of the North-East affected by the insurgency are back in school as the Federal Government launched Mobile Containerized schools last week in Maiduguri, Borno State. The […]

Only one Nigerian university is ranked among the top 800 universities in the world, according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015/2016 released this week. PREMIUM TIMES’ analysis of the report showed that […]

Four weeks after the resumption of the 2015/2016 academic calendar across the country, government-owned primary schools in Rivers State have remained shut. ‎The schools were locked up by security personnel who are protesting non-payment of […]

Today, on the 26th anniversary of the passing on of my father, Joseph Olanrewaju Gbadegesin, and in appreciation of his acute understanding of the responsibility of parents to educate the children they bring into the world, […]

Let us start this discourse with two assumptions. First, whether as individuals or communities, including states, zones, and country we have multiple desires. Second, unfortunately, by token of our human conditions, the resources at our […]

Public affairs participant/observer, Ayo Badmus looks at a bottom up approach to invigorating the education infrastructure…… The executive chairman State Of Osun Universal Basic Education Board (OSUN SUBEB), Prince Felix Awofisayo has an understandable spring […]

While they complain of funds for educational projects in their respective domains, 29 states of the federation, and the Federal Capital Territory have failed to make use of N80.9 billion available to them as Universal […]

One interesting thing about history is that it has a way of repeating itself. Many ideas and practices which were popular, at a certain point in history became obsolete due to the dynamism of the […]

“The National Universities Commission, NUC, has released a list of illegal degree awarding institutions operating in the country.” VANGUARD, Friday, August 28, 2015, p 6. ORDINARILY, one would have commended the NUC for identifying and […]

The Council of Academic Staff Union of Osun State-owned Tertiary Institutions has called on stakeholders in the state to prevail on Governor Rauf Aregbesola to stop cutting down their salaries under any guise. The lecturers […]

Protests marked an interactive session between the management of Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, and members of the Parents, Consultative Forum to resolve the controversy generated by the recent increment in school fees on […]

Students of Lagos State University resumed for their second semester on Monday but the crisis rocking the institution is far from abating. Last semester was particularly bad for students as the vice chancellor and lecturers […]

The authorities should give urgent attention to the training of teachers Two years ago, the then Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Mohammed Modibbo, revealed that more than 50 per cent of […]

Government adviser warns children will be taught fewer subjects in larger classes by less qualified staff, with a 10% shortfall in numbers of trainee teachers. A critical shortage of teachers means children will be taught […]

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was established in 1978 to centralise and sanitise the admission process into the Nigerian universities. Before this period, the admission of prospective students was done by each university […]

IN whichever direction we look, we see the Nigerian student short-changed. He is thoroughly repressed and at times, he becomes an endangered species. He can only cry out at a cost that is too high […]

Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2015 and the struggle goes on, with renewed Presidential vigour. We pray that the end is in sight with the multi-country approach and a three-month time-line even as […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, on October 28, 2010 at the Centre for Women Development and as Presidential candidate under the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, presented his blueprint for the transformation of education sector to […]