The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) where a student was recently shot dead by armed robbers, has been temporarily been closed down by the authorities following the clash that erupted yesterday between the students living off campus and the
President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has approved the appointment of Dr Mukhtar Ibrahim Maccido as the new provost of Federal College of Education (FCE) Zaria.
Despite succumbing to student pressure to ditch a controversial new system of teaching named Competency Based Education Training (CBET), management at the Windhoek Vocational Training Centre (WVTC) claim that they did nothing wrong in introducing the system.
Nigeria may not achieve the international target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015,the Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu said Tuesday in Abuja.
The operators of Oil Joint Development Zone venture, Anadarko Block 3 limited, in collaboration with the Nigeria Sao- Tome and Principe Joint Development Authority (JDA), Wednesday donated 22 computer sets to the University of Abuja.
The Federal Universities Pensioners Association (FUPA), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria chapter, said two issues that may disrupt the relative peace being enjoyed in the country's universities are staff monetisation and SSANU arrears unless the Federal Government arrange for their
In its bid to contribute to the educational development of the country, a Lagos-based education empowerment centre, Green Circle Network Africa said it had deployed over 800 digital whiteboards known as Starboards in 100 schools across Nigeria.
Matron, four others denied bail in school inferno trial Four guards and a matron of Budo Junior School have been charged with negligence of duty, destruction of school and pupil's property.
Primary school teachers in Sokoto State are to get 17 percent salary increase, chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Umar Nagwari, has disclosed.
LAST Tuesday I had the honour and privilege to share my inner feelings and personal experiences on creative writing with the public and students at the Polytechnic of Namibia.
Makerere University's (Mak) Professor Fredrick Jjuuko has attacked the Constitutional Court for what he described as its negative attitude towards its role in the country.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday stressed the role played by technical, professional and higher education in job creation, in promoting health and hygiene, and in lifting production which in turn can lead to reduced prices.
The National President of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG), Mrs. Josephine Okutu on Wednesday noted that her outfit was doing all it could to create strategic alliance with information technology (IT) educational institutions in the country.
Yesterday, we reported that one of the candidates writing this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Achirensua, in the Brong Ahafo region, defecated on himself in the exams hall whilst writing one of the papers.
