EDUCATION

TRCN conducts professional qualifying exam for 11,000 candidates

Daily Dispatch May 21, 2023

Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in a bid to ensure quality in the schools conducted Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE),for about 11,350 candidates across the country. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Andrew Adejo, who monitored the conduct of the

EDUCATION

Former OAU V-C is dead, varsity mourns

Daily Dispatch May 19, 2023

The fourth Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Professor Cyril Agodi Onwumechili, is dead. He was 91 years old. The announcement of his death is contained in a press statement by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, on Friday. He said the authorities of the university received the news […]

EDUCATION

What FG did to 37 new private universities

Daily Dispatch May 16, 2023

The federal government has announced approval for the establishment of additional 37 new private universities in the country. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting. The meeting, on Monday, was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He

EDUCATION

Buhari to commission TETFUND Projects in FUOYE

Daily Dispatch May 11, 2023

Following an impressive leadership style of the Vice-Chancellor of Nigeria’s fastest growing university, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, tens of projects would be commissioned tomorrow by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Projects, sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), was completed in record time

EDUCATION

Sudan crisis: JAMB assures Nigerian student evacuees of completion of education

Daily Dispatch May 10, 2023

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has assured Nigerian student evacuees from Sudan of the board’s arrangement to enable them complete their education in Nigerian Universities, if they so wish. In a statement issued by Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, NiDCOM, on Wednesday, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registar of […]

EDUCATION

UN calls on schoolgirls to take up careers in STEM

Daily Dispatch May 10, 2023

The Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Abuja, Ronald Kayanja, has advised girls and young women to aspire and acquire skills for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), insisting that these should not been seen as exclusive professions for male only. Kayanja, gave the advice to schoolgirls at the 2023 International Girls […]