EDUCATION

From 2021 common entrance examinations into its model colleges and upgraded junior secondary school of Lagos State will be strictly computer-based test (CBT) examination as against the  current two versions, CBT and paper and pencil (PPT) format. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, disclosed this on Saturday while...

As Nigeria continues to experience a significant decline in the number of recorded cases of COVID – 19, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has released new directives to Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian universities for the safe reopening of schools. The NUC directive was contained in a memo addressed to the Vice-Chancellors,...

The Lagos State Ministry of Education has approved resumption dates for the 2020 to 2021 school session. According to the time table, both public and private schools below the tertiary level will resume the first term academic activities on Monday, September 21, 2020. The term is expected to run until...

  The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Lagos Chapter, has assured that it would bridge the academic gap created by COVID-19 pandemic during the year. Dr Tolu Sodimu, the Auditor-General of the Association, gave the assurance in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at a...

  The Nigerian government has said that no decision has been taken on the reopening of tertiary institutions in the country. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of State for Education disclosed this during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in Abuja. Nwajiuba, however, said universities would need to...

The Oyo State Government has announced the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic session for primary and secondary schools. The first term of the new academic calendar will run between September 21 and December 18, 2020. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Olasunkanmi Olaleye who made the announcement in a...

Proprietors of Private Polytechnics in Nigeria on Thursday disagreed with lecturers that tertiary institutions should remain closed to activities due to COVID - 19 pandemic, saying they were not sincere. They called on the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to announce date within the current phase of COVID -...

The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to negotiate with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with a view to paying their salaries and equipping public universities to make them safe for reopening. Babalola, who said COVID-19 has “exposed...

 A don, Prof. Esther Akinlabi has advised the Federal Government to put infrastructure in place that would support the use of technology in the education system as schools prepare to re-open. Akinlabi, who is the Director, Pan Africa University of Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Ibadan, stated this in...

Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun (SAN), Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University(LASU), Ojo, has urged staff and students to keep attracting more world class research opportunities and leading initiatives that would make the institution more globally competitive. In a statement on Thursday in Lagos, Fagbohun said that the “2021 Times Higher Education Ranking”, which ranked...