EDUCATION

Urges board to publish unutilized admission slots The Federal Government on Monday gave approval to the demand of the board of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to enable tertiary educational institutions to set different cut-off points for universities, polytechnics and colleges of education as against the unified mark...

Following the recommendation by the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Federal Government on Wednesday gave provisional licences for the establishment of eight new private universities in the country. The Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony Anwuka, who disclosed this while speaking to newsmen after the Federal Executive Committee (FEC)...

Despite its earlier proposal to amend the act establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Nigerian Senate has suspended the idea to allow for adequate consultation with experts. A statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the Chairman, Senate Committee on...

Calls for national debate on it The management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) led by Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has resolved to ensure that the change agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari, concerning education is actualized in no distance time. As a result of this, the JAMB Registrar has...

  … Covenant leads private universities ….Nasarawa tops state universities University of Ilorin in Kwara State has been named the first university of first choice among student-applicants for the 2016/2017 academic session. It was followed by 16 others from the federal, state and private universities, the Economic Confidential findings revealed....

...signs Mou with Cyprus Bayelsa State government on Saturday in Yenagoa, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Global Education Counselling Limited, Cyprus for the commencement of academic activities at the University of Africa, Toru Orua, Sagbama LGA. The institution's Director, Theo Theodorou, at a ceremony held in Government House,...

First Nigerian university on the ranking A global ranking of universities released by the Times Higher Education has placed the University of Ibadan Oyo State at number 801 among the best 978 in the world. The 2016-2017 ranking just released shows that the university was the only one in Nigeria...

  Nigeria Academy of Letters (NAL) has thrown its weight behind the appointment of Prof. Is-haq Oloyede as Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) describing it as “a highly merited appointment”. A statement issued on Friday by the Spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the...

The Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, would repeat the wonders he performed at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), where he was Vice Chancellor. This was the position of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released the list of unaccredited courses in Nigerian universities. The NUC warned that any certificate issued for these courses will be considered void. According to the NUC, 13 federal universities, 16 state universities and eight private universities were running courses that had not been...