EDUCATION AND EDUCATIVE NEWS

 The academic staff union of universities (ASUU) has reiterated that it does not derive pleasure in destrupting the academic calendar through strike. It's pointed out that industrial actions has always been the last resort. A statement by chairperson and Secretary of kaduna State University (KASU) chapter of the Union, comrades tukur Abdulkadir and peter Adamu, warned that the nation's ivory tower were on the verge of collapse. The masses, according to them,are now at a crossroads in the country, as proclivity of the Nigerian Ruling Class, irrespective of their divides, has plunged us all into the quagmire. We must continually track, engage and resist their excesses for the survival of public universities and the country at large. They said: “the goal of the total comprehensive and indefinite strike is to get government's meaningfully address ASUU'S demands for revisitation funds for public universities, renegotiating of the 2009 agreement, visitation panels to universi...

  The Central Admission Processing System, CAPS was introduced to replace the manual process of admitting students and human errors associated with it.  This post clearly explains in simple terms how this system works and the major benefits to candidates and other stakeholders. How the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) Works * Each school will have its own dashboard on the Central Admission Processing System. This dashboard will be managed by the admission officers of the different schools. The school’s admission officer will have to set the admission criteria of their schools and the admission quota of the school on the dash board. *  The Admission Officers will set the General UTME cut-off marks, the UTME Cut-off mark for each course or programme, Post-UTME screening cut-off marks, O’level grading as well as other admission criteria the school wants to use in selecting. Please note that the admission criteria differ from school to school. Some school may use al...

  Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates against accepting any admission that does not pass through its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) as any offer of admission not validated on JAMB’S profile page or offered through the CAPS is invalid. According to JAMB, there have been complaints from the general public that three Public Universities have devised a method of “ offering admission ” to candidates outside the  Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS)  on their own designated portals. JAMB described this as a deliberate act done with the intent to lure unsuspecting candidates to accept other programmes  (courses) aside from their programmes  (courses) of choice. The board re-emphasised that the CAPS system is  designed among other things to :  i. prevent institutions from unilaterally changing or proposing a candidate for admission into other programmes (courses) other than his/her chosen one; ii. disallow ...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has disclosed when candidates who participated in the 2020 May/June SCSCE exam that was concluded a few days ago would see their results. This was disclosed by the Head of public affairs of WAEC Nigeria, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, in an interview with newsmen. According to him, for two years now, WAEC has been able to release candidates’ results 45 days after the conclusion of the exam and that of 2020 May/June SSCE will not be an exception. This means that all things being equal, candidates should expect their 2020 May/June SSCE results between  26th and 31st October 2020. This means that candidates that want to use their results for the 2020 admission exercise still have the opportunity to secure admission this year. He revealed that a total of 1,459,463 students sat the exam in Nigeria. Each of them took a minimum of eight or a maximum of nine subjects that must include the English language and Mathematics. He mentioned that some ca...

  The Federal Government has given state governments and school administrators the privilege to determine when schools can reopen in their various states. What this means is that it is left for the various state governors to announce the date schools will resume in their various states. However, States and school heads are to conduct a risk assessment to ensure that their states and schools are in the right condition to reopen. For instance, they are to ensure classrooms are large enough or used in such a manner that will take care of social distancing. Provision should be made for isolation centres and other necessary equipment. Hostels should not be overcrowded as not to make students vulnerable. All these and other ones like provision of water for handwashing, provision of hand sanitizers, as well as other guidelines are to be put in place by schools before resumption. Many states have already announced their resumption date for academic activities while some are yet to make an ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that its ongoing strike was as a result of the federal government refusal to fund education as demanded, stressing that it is a deliberate strategy to kill education in Nigeria. ASUU, therefore, said it would unfold its next agenda if the Federal Government refused to negotiate with it on its demands as scheduled. The national chairman of the union Professor Biodun Oyeyemi said this in Ilorin at the weekend at the Town and Gown meeting it had with parents, students union leaders and alumni of universities in the country at the Africa Hall, University of Ilorin. He said the Federal Government with the right attitude can fund education in Nigeria, saying that giving N80bn bailout to banks was a clear indication. Professor Ogunyemi who gave graphical details of agreements ASUU had with the federal government since 2009, said they are yet to be honoured despite promises made to the union. He said that the plans of the federal governm...

 The academic staff union of universities and the Non academic staff union by 7AM today has locked LASU main gate preventing lecturers, the vice chancellor and students from entering the school premises. This is as a result of the non payment of minimum wages by the Lagos state government. All attempt by the Vice-Chancellor to dialogue with NLC, ASUU, NASU members was not successful, as they insist that no one will be allowed into the university premises until their demands are met by the state government. They claimed that an increment in their salaries was promised by the Lagos State government more than a year ago and the promise was yet to be fulfilled. The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu two weeks earlier announced that tertiary institutions in the state will be reopened today,  September 14, 2020, after been shut for six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read also:  LASU: 100LEV students to resume by January

  First year students of the Lagos State University (LASU) will have to wait till January 11, 2021 to resume in-person classes. Until then, their classes will be online according to the resumption schedule released by the university on Friday. Those to resume on Monday are students in terminal classes (400, 500 and 600-Levels) and they would have classes 9am to 3pm on week days only. Masters and PhD students will also be resuming Monday but their classes will hold weekends only. Other classes (200-Level to 500-Level) are to resume November 9, 2020; while sandwich, part-time and diploma students would resume November 13, 2020 for weekend classes only at the institution’s Epe campus. In addition to compulsory face masks usage, all students and workers would be required to wear their LASU I.D Cards without which they would not be allowed on campus. They are also expected to have their hand sanitizers. All academic members of staff are to resume with students on Monday while only non-a...

 Alot will happen immediately after resumption of academic activities nationwide. Both staffs and students will be running helter skelter trying the best they can to complete their syllabus for the season. There will be chaos among students as there will be clash of classes. Lectures would be bridged as senior staffs will take advantage of the junior ones. It'll be so obvious on students that the academic session will be the most hectic compared it other sessions ever had. Fraudsters will take advantage of such  opportunities to defraud students all in the name of helping them. Texts and practicals that were previously missed will be difficult to be retaken and students will be given the option of pay and pass. Most lecturers will also make pay and pass optional since they might see it as a stressful deal trying to complete their course outline. Morals and discipline would be broken. Crime rates and malpractices will increase. When this time comes, students are advised to be e...

  For JAMB candidates asking, “How Many Times Can I Do Change of Course and Institution?”, “Can I change My course and institution again after changing it the first time?” JAMB has officially answered your question. Read details below; Before now candidates who wish to effect changes on either their course and institution could only do it twice (2 times). However, things have changed. Now, changing of course/institution can now be done as many times as possible provided you’re ready to pay for it, have the requirements to study the course and institution you are changing to and if the school you are changing to is still allowing candidates to change to it. So candidates are allowed to change as many times as they want, provided they meet the requirements and conditions as state above. However, candidates against going to unapproved CBT centres for their change of course/ Institution and data correction. This is to avoid mistakes during the process. JAMB or institutions will no...

  Colleges of Education (COEs) lecturers Thursday lamented that the Federal Government has abandoned the institutions. The lecturers stated that the federal government has been consistent with the under-funding of COEs in the country. They stated that between 2012 and 2017 the funds released as capital allocation to COEs by the federal government stood at just about 56% of the budgeted sums. The lecturers under the aegis of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) stated this during a press conference on Thursday in Abuja. COEASU President, Nuhu Ogirima, who addressed reporters, said the attempt to make the government fund colleges of education had fallen on deaf ears. He said: “The gross under-funding of COEs has been abysmally consistent with the federal government. Quite unfortunately, State governments toe the line of the federal government in this regard. It could be said that the federal government encourages irresponsibility towards funding obligations. “The issue...

 Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Wednesday said it will not resume academic activities until its demands for embarking on industrial action are met before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The union added though, it is not opposed to calling for reopening of universities in the country. However, the union asked Nigerians to “honestly interrogate this position.” Speaking with reporters in Ilorin, Coordinator, Ibadan zone of ASUU Prof Ade Adejumo said “even if universities are opened today, our strike which was predicated on government’s readiness to honour its memorandum of agreement (MOA) with us continues. “It is our responsibility to call the government’s attention to its duties to the nation and its citizens, this we have done and there is no going back. Ibadan zone of ASUU comprises the University of Ibadan (UI), University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Osun State University (UniOsun), Kwara State University (KWASU), and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (...

 There have been controversies pertaining to the reason why there is delay in the resumption of academic activities for universities. The war between ASUU and Nigerian government seems to be an unending one. Issues and disagreement are always arising between them. An African proverb says “ when 2 elephants fight, the grasses around suffers most ”. The proverb is highly applicable to the dispute between the Academic staff union of universities and Federal government. It's been 7 months since academic activities were suspended indefinitely as a result of the widespread of Corona virus though ASUU was already engaged with indefinite strike before the lockdown. With situations on ground, schools are eligible to resume academic activities but ASUU said that resumption won't proceed until the government attend to their demands. The government on its side isn't taking any bold step to ensure they attend to ASUU so that academics will resume Successfully. This disagreement between...

 Most students have been the source of their failure. They do so by  exhibiting characters that contribute to their downfall. Most don't even know that these behaviours are the reasons for their breakdown. This article is meant to highlight some characters and lifestyles nonchalantly exhibited by students that have negative effect on their academics. - Dressing/immoral dressing: Dressing have a major contribution to academic failure in such a way that most students mostly care about what to wear so that they'll be noticed and be tagged “fashionable” or “sexy”. In order to achieve this, most go to the extent of putting on transparent clothes or ones that exposes sensitive body parts. This result to spending more time in boutiques and cosmetic stores checking out for what to wear, costume to use, jwerries that'll match their outfits. - keeping unworthy friends: As a student that wish to succeed, most friends are not worth being kept. Bad influence from friends have caused mos...