Education

We have all seen this happen to family members, colleagues, and friends, time and time again: corporate professionals, who after giving years of good performance are being laid off, as companies look to hire younger […]

TETfund decision is a smart move. To break the frontiers of knowledge, researches are inevitable Research is a key ingredient of advancement in virtually every sphere of human endeavour. With it, proper planning is enhanced, […]

If the time-honoured aphorism which considers education as the bedrock of development is anything to go by and if the age-long believe that; with sound educational institutions, a country is as good as made -as […]

Gideon Olanrewaju, founder of Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi), met the members of the British royal family to discuss the challenges within the Nigerian education system, especially as it concerns out-of-school children.  Olanrewaju, who […]

University teachers must come up with cutting-edge researches that would provide solutions to societal problems. With the socio-economic problems confronting the nation, our tertiary institutions must be able to solve organisational problems, which will invariably […]

It’s about that time of the year again when women in Lagos State converge under the auspices of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) for annual National Women’s Conference. For the past […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says Nigeria’s education system is in serious trouble. Speaking during the presentation of a play entitled, ‘Folly of Men’, on Sunday, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the renowned writer described […]

The continued spate of degeneration in academic administration in the form of widespread infractions and impunities by management and Governing Councils in many universities across Nigeria is indeed disturbing and precarious for the country’s University […]

Nigerian parents will need to do a rethink quickly if it is really worthwhile spending millions of naira to send their children to private secondary schools, as startling statistics has shown that students attending public […]

Just two years after three pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, died from water-borne infections, another related disease has broken out in the school. Our Correspondent gathered from some parents on Monday that no fewer […]

In April, PREMIUM TIMES ran a series exposing corruption and fraud at the Lagos State University, LASU. The first story, published on April 6, revealed that a top professor at the University and former executive […]

Federal universities in other parts of the country have, to varying degrees, similarly recalibrated to become extensions of their immediate sociocultural environments, resulting in intellectual and academic inbreeding and in incestuously insular intellectual reinforcement. Conversely, […]

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), says whoever is denied education is denied almost everything. Muhammad-Bande, who is Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, committed to poverty eradication, quality […]

When the National Universities Commission (NUC) directed higher institutions across the country to adopt the four point-grading system and later upped it to five points, not all of them heeded the call. The few that […]

I thank you for inviting me to deliver this keynote speech at this event preparatory to the 70th anniversary of our alma mater, Ijebu Muslim College, famously known as MUSEDUCO Varsity. I feel most humbled […]

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 […]