While women dominate both sectors, significantly more men enter – and stay in – private education. Lucy Ward explores what the statistics me...
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Health workers’ strike’ll not affect operations —UCH
The management of the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, yesterday said healthcare services had been going on in the hospital without...
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Are British students getting fitter or fatter?
One recent report claims today’s students are super healthy, another that they are piling on the pounds. Which is correct? They say you a...
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ASUU, Delta State Threatens Strike Action Over Kidnapped Colleague
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Delta State Chapter, has called for the immediate release of Dr. Nyerhovwo Tonukari, an intern...
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Jonathan launches schools agric programme
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Monday launched the National Schools Agriculture Programme (NSAP), as part of his administration’s effort to...
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Only UNILORIN, 6 others have 60% Ph.D lecturers —NUC
THE Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Juliu Okojie, on Monday, said “only University of Ilorin (...
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Boosting youth employment through graduate internship scheme
YOUTH unemployment in Nigeria said to be the highest in the world if numbers from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and t...
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TETFund spends N23.8b on tertiary institutions’ e-libraries
IN pursuit of excellence in the education sector, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has committed the sum of N23.842 bil...
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States owe WAEC N3bn for examination registration
THE multi-million naira credit facility extended to state governments in the country by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), during ...
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Nda-Isaiah Congratulates Gowon, Says It’s Time to Reform NYSC
Founder of Leadership Newspapers and Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, s...
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Skye Bank Employees Renovate Schools, Donate Materials to Students
Employees of Skye Bank Plc have embarked on various corporate social...
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Students, authorities disagree as mass failure hits law school
From Lagos to Abuja, Yola, Enugu, Kano, and Yenagoa campuses of the Nigerian Law School, gloom and frustration seem to be the second name of...
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Varsity offers scholarship to 44 students
The authorities of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, have offered scholarship to 44 students of the institution.
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Poor ranking of Nigerian varsities worrisome –UNILORIN VC
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, says the poor ranking of Nigerian universities in th...
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Muslim students develop mobile health apps
Muslim students at the University of Lagos have developed an application that reveals locations and contacts of health centres and general h...
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‘Educate public on democracy, Ebola’
The Emir of Gombe, Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, has urged broadcast stations in the country to do more in enlightening the public on the ten...
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Man abandons children in boarding school for eight years
Three children abandoned in a boarding school in Abule-Iroko in the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State are longing to meet th...
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ASUU tasks Delta on abducted don’s freedom
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, Delta University, Abraka, Chapter, on Sunday urged the state government to intensify efforts to s...
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Nigerian students and the 2015 elections
Without empirical evidence, it is safe to contend that there are more phones in our tertiary institutions than there are books. If this clai...
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NYSC passing out parade put off again
The 2013/2014 Batch ‘C’ National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in the Federal Capital Territory yesterday collected their discharge cer...
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Islamic school graduates pupils
Aibas Islamic Academy, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council, recently graduated nine pupils having been thoroughly bred in Islamic and Western educatio...
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Dons blame Nigerian varsities’ low ranking on lecturers’ carelessness
VICE Chancellors and lecturers have continued to query the rationale behind the low ranking of Nigerian universities over the years, arguing...
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The imperative of professionalising the Nigerian Civil Service
WRITERS are often considered literary prophets. Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People preceded the first Nigerian military coup by seven month...
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UNN @ 54: Students celebrate varsity, task V-C on transparency
NIgeria’s first indigenous university, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, known for academic excellence, turns 54, with the Founders Day le...
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Education, solution to Africa’s devt challenges says US Ambassador
AMBASSADOR James Entwistle, the US ambassador to Nigeria, has harped on the importance of education to the development of any nation.
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Parents, students bemoan unity schools’ strike
PARENTS and students are bemoaning the inability of the 104 Unity Schools to reopen after an extended holiday occasioned by the outbreak of ...
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Rivers govt distributes ebola preventive materials to schools
The Rivers State Government has distributed Ebola Preventive materials to all Model Primary schools in the State. The materials include the...
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Varsities Talk: Jigawa state Varsity as a metaphor for others (2)
“A university does not just answer that name unless it is able to provide for the needs of the society. I fancy one great university that is...
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Rivers govt distributes ebola preventive materials to schools
The Rivers State Government has distributed Ebola Preventive materials to all Model Primary schools in the State. The materials include ther...
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Education: Panacea for vibrant democratic society— Ekweremadu
Deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu stressed that Nigeria can only create a vibrant democratic society where Nigerians will bett...
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Man gets eight months prison term for exam malpractices
FOR involving in examination malpractices, Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 20 year-old ...
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Teacher bags life jail for defiling 11-year-old pupil
A Benin High Court has sentenced a 35-year-old teacher, Bright Asiruwa, to life imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old primary school ...
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Why I enrolled in school at 77, by Obasanjo
•Former president urges lecturers to treat him as regular student Academic and administrative activities at the National Open Univers...
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PEFTI begins French language training
PEFTI Film Institute has commenced French language training. Mr. Pierre Cherruau, the French Embassy Regional Audio-Visual Attaché, r...
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‘How some higher institutions frustrate Rotary scholarship scheme’
The District Gover...
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LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Gets NAFDAC Endorsement to Produce Children Drugs
The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Osun State has secured registration for the manufacturing of two drugs fo...
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Educationist urges schools to embrace digital learning
An educationist, Mrs. Omotayo Morgan, has called on parents and schools in Nigeria to embrace the World Book Online digital tool for teachin...
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Organisation calls for simplified learning process
A telecommunication company, China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation Nigeria Limited, has called for a more flexible ...
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Boys lag behind girls in literacy —Survey
Five-year-old boys lag behind girls of the same age in reading, writing and Maths, official statistics suggest. Overall, 60 per cent of fiv...
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Child activist campaigns for Chibok girls release
She came into global reckoning three years ago as a nine-year-old activist. In quick succession, Zuriel Oduwole, an American of Nigerian and...
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Group campaigns against Ebola in schools
The World Organisation for Early Childhood Education has begun a campaign against the eradication of Ebola Virus Disease in schools, as part...
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Good policy, key to functional education —Proprietor
The Chairman, Board of Governors of the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Mr. Olumide Philips, says the creation of a more robust education polic...
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Unease as more teachers die from Boko Haram attacks
The attacks on schools in the troubled North East by insurgents have continued to deplete the ranks of teachers in the country, Like soldier...
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Pupils write on FCT, win awards
For reading and writing on the Abuja Municipal Council, a pupil of the Government Secondary School, Nyanya, Faith Orjiakor, has won N100,000...
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Monarch donates books to Arepo school
Olu of Arepo, in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Solomon Oyebi, on Thursday, presented exercise books worth N500,000 ...
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Ajibola, proprietors seek relief for private schools
A former World Court judge, Chief Bola Ajibola, and the President, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools in Ogun State, Dr....
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Ogun teachers demand training, welfare
Teachers in Ogun State have demanded a better training package, saying that it will enable them to be abreast of modern trends in the profes...
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Pupils to learn about work
Head teachers want primary school pupils to learn more about the links between learning and the world of work.More than 1,000 schools in Eng...
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Nigerian graduates serving as drivers, cooks in Dubai
The National Chairman of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Chief Olu Okunriboye, has said that many young Nigerian graduates who emigrate to...
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P&G, UI collaborate on technology transfer
Leading consumer goods manufacturing company, Procter & Gamble Nigeria and Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan have e...
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Human Rights police officers graduate
The twentieth graduation ceremony of Human Rights Police Officers will hold on Thursday.
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Are some university disciplines becoming extinct?
Tick-tock. The clock cannot move fast enough for 200 level students of a Nigerian University which Saturday School Life, SSL, visited recent...
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Education secretary in row with MPs over academy schools inspections
Nicky Morgan’s decision to block inspections of managers and sponsors labelled ‘absurd’ by fellow Tory MP Graham Stuart The education sec...
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Missing Mexican students 'not found in mass grave'
MEXICO’S attorney general says DNA tests have shown that 28 bodies found in a mass grave are not those of a missing group of students.
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Police arrest varsity student with eight cars in Borno
TO prevent incessant car snatching and other criminal activities in Borno State, the Police Commissioner, Clement Adoda, has urged residents...
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‘Trojan horse’ schools have done little to fix problems – Ofsted
Poor teaching and governance continue in Birmingham schools at centre of alleged Islamic infiltration plot, inspectors say The Departmen...
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Couple mentors 1000 students in Lagos
For the past six years, Mr. and Mrs. Emma Nwachukwu have been working with thousands of young people in Lagos State, counseling them ou...
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UNICAL students allege fraud in SUG election
•No, it was transparent, says VC Some students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have condemned the electronic voting system used i...
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ITF Trains 1,000 Youths in Sokoto
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) yesterday commenced the training of 1,000 youths in Sokoto State under the National Industrial Skill...
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Lecturers protest non-payment of pension entitlements
No fewer than 100 lecturers of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education,Ijanikin, on Monday staged a protest at the Government House, Al...
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UNICEF preaches hand washing to Nigerians
The United Nations Children’s Fund has called on Nigerians to adhere to hand washing practices as a tool in disease prevention.
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‘ABU disease-resistant groundnut can revive the crop’s prominence’
Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Sharifai is an agronomist at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and he ...
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Principal expresses shock over students’ failure
The Principal of Community Secondary School (CSS) Asokoro, Alhaji Sa’idu Ahmed, has expressed shock over the rate at which primary school pu...
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Nasarawa varsity to resume Oct 12
Students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) would finally resume on Sunday, October 12, Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor...
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SAN decries frequent strikes by varsities, others
A legal luminary, Malam Yusuf Ali, SAN, has lamented the instability of the academic calendar of Nigerian institutions which, he noted, has ...
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Provide quality education, educationist urges parents, teachers
Chief Rufus Eniola, an educationist, has urged parents and teachers to partner with government in the effort to provide quality education fo...
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WAEC: Opposition blames govt over students’ failure
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has blamed Oyo State Governments for the poor performance of ...
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Borno, Yobe schools need FG special grants – Rector
Alhaji Usman A. Saleh is the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic Damaturu. In this interview, he speaks on the challenges fac...
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NSUK students cry out over new fees
Students of the Faculty of Education at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, have expressed concern over what they termed as ‘new and unjus...
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Ebola: Committee sensitises Katsina poly students
The Katsina State Committee on Ebola has sensitised the students of Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechn...
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Gourmet school meals, exam incentives fail and classrooms of the future
Education round up: School dinners get a Michelin makeover in Manchester, culture not curriculum spells educational success in Asia and Tri...
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School places: a guide through the minefield of admissions
About 75% of schools may now set their own rules about which children they accept. Here are the 10 most common criteria and how they are us...
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Insurgency: AUN assists displaced persons
The American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola has distributed some relief materials to internally displaced persons in the state.
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Ebola crisis: online courses help spread awareness and fill the knowledge gap
Founder of e-learning firm says platform provides crucial lifeline for west Africans looking to educate themselves about virus Amos Gar...
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AAU president calls for quality assurance in varsities
The President, Association of African Universities (AAU) and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun S...
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EBOLA: Our schools are safe for resumption —Teachers
As primary and secondary schools in Lagos State resumed yesterday, teachers in the state have said schools are now safe for the students.
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How commitment to service delivery boosts RAMPOLY’s enrolment
Before now, Ramat Polytechnic (RAMPOLY) Maiduguri, Borno State has suffered neglect from the successive administrations in the state.
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Schools tasked on digital development
The Managing Director, Sunnyytee Computer Services, Lagos, Mr. Emmanuel Okereke has said there was need for both private and public schools ...
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Sir Michael Wilshaw: ‘Smear campaign against Ofsted is no surprise’
Chief inspector of schools hits back at ‘attempts to undermine watchdog’s independence’ after Department of Education leak
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10 things female students shouldn’t have to go through at university
As a new university year dawns, there are the depressingly familiar reports of misogynistic behaviour. Should young women really have to e...
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Tetfund trains 10,000 lecturers in Nigeria
THE Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro has disclosed that funds intervention on ...
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LASU reads riot act to external students
The authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU) yesterday read the riot act to students in its external system in the various cam...
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Universities need to be transparent about how they allocate teaching hours
The current system exploits graduate teaching assistants, excludes them from discussions and often treats them as a lower class of teach...
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Pay Now Or Forfeit Your Admission, LASU Tells Students
Students in external campuses of Lagos State University, LASU, must pay their school fees within the next two weeks or forfeit their studen...
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Nigeria’s burdensome 64 million adult illiterates
Nigeria’s particularly high population of illiterate adults, put at over 64 million, tells a sad story of a country that places little premi...
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Is there hope for Nigerian universities?
There is no need to waste precious space narrating a jeremiad for the problems that exist in our education sector, specifically as they conc...
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Hong Kong government calls off student talks
Hong Kong’s government has called off a meeting on Friday with student leaders of the pro-democracy movement, BBC reports.
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N’East parents wary of educating female children –Ezekwesili
A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said the abduction of over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary Scho...
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FG releases N527.6m to pay unity schools’ staff
The Federal Budget Office has released N527.6m to the Central Bank of Nigeria for the settlement of salary arrears and entitlements of sta...
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