Obama Foundation has announced the launch of the Global Girls Alliance
The Obama Foundation has announced the launch of the Global Girls Alliance, a program focussed on supporting access to education for adolescent girls worldwide.
“When you educate a girl you educate a family, a community, a country,” said former First Lady Michelle Obama, launching the program in an interview on NBC show Today.
“If we care about climate change, poverty…then we need to care about education. Right now, there are 98 million adolescent girls who are not in school.”
The program will support grassroots organisations, projects and leaders dedicated to girls’ education around the world.
Standard of nation’s education not falling – Okebukola
Okebukola made the assertion while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the Eighth Convocation and honorary award of doctorate degree of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos.
He said the current NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, was on a revatilisation mission to improve quality in the university system and enhance standards.
According to him, the standards turned out yearly by the Commission are richer and higher in terms of scope than the previous year.
Private universities to get their own share of the TETFund
Speaking during a briefing organised ahead of the 10th convocation ceremony of the university, the VC said that a total of 287 undergraduates of the school would be conferred with Bachelor degrees and certificates, while 339 postgraduate students would also graduate from the school.