Who cares about education in Nigeria?
The concern about the current shutdown of most public universities relates to the effects on the individuals directly affected (the students), the international perception of the Nigerian university system, as well as the implications for disrupted calendars and synchronisation of our university calendar with other international universities.
The students would be affected in various ways, including extended/unknown graduation dates, suspended plans/ambitions for those who may wish to start work or go for further studies or some other personal/family plans.
The education of tens of thousands of children has been damaged by academy failures
MPs have also questioned the ability of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to control academies’ executive pay awards following a series of high-profile scandals.
The report said the DfE should ensure that academy trusts were sufficiently transparent and accountable to parents and communities.
Its conclusions follow increasing concern over the academies programme, which began in 2000 under Labour but has been widened by the Conservatives.
Meg Hillier, the chair of the committee, said the education of many pupils had been badly affected.
“We have seen the troubling consequences of poor governance and oversight of academy trusts,” she said.
“Parents and the wider community are entitled to proper access to transparent information about their local academy schools.”
THE’s University Rankings 2019
Higher education institutions in Africa have moved up university rankings. This is according to the 2019 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings.
According to the rankings , compiled by Times Higher Education, African countries were better represented than in previous years. Egypt holds the position as the most represented African nation on the ranking, while the highest ranking African institution on the table is in South Africa.
The list ranks 442 universities from 43 countries, across four continents. The rankings use the same 13 performance indicators as the World University Rankings to judge institutions on their teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. But these indicators are recalibrated to reflect the development priorities of universities in emerging economies.