Education

As part of efforts to boost reading culture among youths, YouTube has unveiled “Africa Reading Challenge,” an online reading marathon featuring authors, influencers and key opinion leaders across the region.

An educationist, Mrs Deborah Alabi, has tasked school owners to equip students with necessary practical life skills needed to thrive after school. Alabi, who is the assistant principal of Greensprings School, Lekki, at a virtual event organised by the school...

Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), Prof Deborah Odejimi, has called on government to rejig the country’s economy by engaging corps members on three months skill acquisition training.

Telecommunication company, 9mobile, has provided free access for lecturers and students on tertiary educational technology (edtech) platform, MyClassConnect, without incurring mobile data costs.

While it is a generally held view that education is grossly underfunded in Nigeria, the coronavirus pandemic appears to have taken a huge toll on the sector, with public federal and state universities currently struggling to survive.

Candidates for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have bemoaned their inability to register, saying with Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) insistence...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) last week accused University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) and other unnamed institutions of offering illegal admissions to some candidates...

Education is a very important aspect of our lives, and in particular, secondary school education during which we attain puberty and recognition.

The search for new best teacher in secondary schools has officially commenced as Nigeria Breweries Plc. announced entries for this year’s Maltina Teacher of the Year contest.

I still believe in the call because a university is a place to acquire knowledge and when we talk of human capital development, we are talking of knowledge.

Stakeholders in the education sector yesterday advocated inclusion of technical and vocational training in the curriculum, noting that the present system is not in tune with industry and organisational needs.

Worried about the absence of fun and fanfare that characterise Children’s Day celebration in many Lagos State schools on May 27 of every year, Sterling Homes...