Education

Juan Visser is the Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Cambridge Assessment International Education. In this interview with IYABO LAWAL, Visser talks about the Cambridge International examination awards, how Nigerian schools have fared, and how African leaders can better position the sector for the global stage. What is Cambridge International examination awards all about? CAMBRIDGE…

Almost seven months after the COVID-19-induced lockdown, schools across the states are beginning to open their doors to students. But school owners, parents

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has called on the Federal Government to increase its annual funding for research and development to $1 billion per annum. The agency noted that increasing domestic investment in research would fast-track development in the country. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, who made the appeal while inaugurating a…

The Senate of Al-Qalam University, Katsina, Katsina State, has called on its students and members of staff to resume academic activities on Monday, October 19. It also fixed October 26 as the commencement of first semester examinations.        The Senate, at a meeting held on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, assured that COVID-19 safety…

International Solidarity, Obiora Okafor, has called on universities to develop specialised courses on new and emerging areas of international law that regulate debt relief...

• Urges FG to unify different academic calendars as schools reopen nationwide The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has urged the Federal Government to engage the association in the development of educational policies for the country. It also called for a synergy between the two to ensure the advancement of the private…

As the search for solutions to COVID-19 continue, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and African Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) have selected Redeemer’s University African Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), South Africa’s National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), and Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) as specialised continental reference sequencing research laboratories for emerging…

The outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic has forever altered the brilliant future of many girls in the country, as their hope of getting educated has forever been dampened.

Among passionate professionals in the world, teachers are exemplary because of their desire to want to keep imparting on tomorrow’s leaders – children.

Teachers expecting payment of the newly approved salaries may have to wait longer as the implementation may not be immediate. Reason is because the new salary was not budgeted for in the 2020 appropriation bill.

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has called on the Federal Government to increase its annual funding for research and development to $1 billion per annum.

Head, Google Brand and Reputation in Africa, Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde has disclosed that increased literacy among youths and adults would enhance growth in the region.