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The federal government said it would revamp four teaching hospitals to international standard in 2010 to reduce the rate at which Nigerians seek medical attention abroad.
In order to attract more English and German speaking students, the new German Swiss International School-Accra has expanded its school program and is now offering a bilingual (British and German) international curriculum.
A Virtual Study Abroad Programme will be launched in Ghana in January 2010. The programme is a collaborative effort between the African University College of Communications (AUCC) of Ghana and Simmons College of the United States.
The managing director of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Edward Effah, has called on Graduates to widen their horizon and acquire diverse skills to enable them become more relevant and marketable in the corporate world.
The ever busy Lagos Badagry expressway was yesterday barricaded by students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo who were protesting what they described as the long silence and unfair treatment by the state House of Assembly over the institution's internal problem.
Over sixty students from Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in various tertiary institutions in the country, weekend, benefited from the Clever Ikisikpo Educational Foundation.
The Federal Government says it will recruit about 140,000 teachers to boost the standard of education in the country.
Scientists from a leading Brazilian university will provide their expertise to FAO for its agricultural development programmes in Latin America and African countries under an agreement signed here today.
As reported on the front page of this paper, the former CEO of Unilever Ghana, Mr. Ishmael Yamson, at a ceremony to mark African Universities Day in Accra, appealed to companies to recognize and live up to their role in university education and research in Africa.
The last group of Form Four examination candidates completed the test on Monday paving the way for marking, from next week.
Almost a million prospective students lose chance of getting admission into the Nigerian universities every year, as they compete for only 300, 000 vacancies for undergraduate courses in the universities.
The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, has decried the abysmal low standard of education in the Northern region and challenged the 19 northern state governors to rise and salvage the education sector.
I SHOULD not be the one writing about this because well, I literally make a living off reminiscing about campus life. But then I have never been the one to resist doing what I shouldn't do. I wonder why we never seem to get over the fact that we went to university?
The Saint Francis of Assisi Girls Senior High School in Jirapa in the Upper West Region scored 100 per cent in the 2009 West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) with aggregate 11 as the best academic performance.
THE meeting was between President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and his attorney general and minister of justice, Michael Aondoaaka, at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Yar'Adua had sent for Aondoaaka and the meeting had been long in holding.
ONCE, Uganda was closed off from the rest of the world. With one radio and TV station, mainstream religions, one university and no Internet, people had no choice. Timothy Bukumunhe looks back at how far Uganda has come and where we are at.
THE Government is to spend $150m (about sh282b) to build infrastructure in Universal Secondary Education (USE) schools countrywide, the state minister for primary education, Dr. Kamanda Bataringaya, has disclosed.
THE lingering succession crisis at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, took a fresh dimension last week when the chairman of the institution's Governing Council and former minister of finance, Malam Adamu Ciroma, resigned his position.
Provost, College of Education, Jalingo, Mr. Joseph Isa has commended the administration of Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State for considering the education sector as top priority.
President, Living Faith Church Worldwide (a.k.a. Winners Chapel) and Chancellor, Covenant University, Otta, Bishop (Dr.) David Oyedepo has called on education stakeholders in the country to be involved in the provision of quality education in Nigeria.
The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), last Thursday promised to set up a common standard for both teacher trainees and teaching practice supervisory authorities.
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has promoted 25 lecturers to the rank of Professors, and 28 others, to Readers.
THE education sector in Amuru district is in a sorry state, Bungokho North MP Gudoi Yahaya has said. Yahaya was last Wednesday leading MPs on the social service parliamentary committee on a monitoring tour of the sector in the district.
A former CEO of Unilever Ghana, Mr. Ishmael Yamson, has said that companies need to accept they have a contribution to make in funding university education and research in Africa if their own competitive knack in today's global economy is to be guaranteed.
A new policy in the admission process for the tertiary education system will be unveiled April 17, 2010. The policy, known as Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was introduced by the federal government to replace the multiple examinations -- the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Matriculation Exams (MPCME) for ...
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