WAEC pledges collaboration with relevant organisations on prisoners’ access to education
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it will always partner relevant organisations to assist prison inmates to have easy access to education. The council’s Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Olutise Adenipekun, told the Newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos that such collaboration would enhance the inmates’ transformation and development.
Source : Vanguard
ASUU faults FG on funding of varsity education
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of plans to deliberately stamp out public universities by starving it of funds.
This was disclosed by Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan branch, Dr Ayodeji Omole, a press conference in Ibadan yesterday. Omole lamented that our leaders in the country allowed private universities across the country to feed fat on Nigerians with the outrageous tuition fees they charge.
Source : Vanguard
Must-Read Education Stories From 2017
It would be easy enough to drive past Calvin College without giving Betsy DeVos’s alma mater a second thought. Six miles southeast of downtown, the school is a sprawling cluster of nondescript buildings and winding pathways in a quiet suburb. But to bypass Calvin would be to ignore an institution whose approach to education offers clues about how the recently appointed U.S. education secretary might pursue her new job, and about the tug religious institutions feel between maintaining tradition and remaining relevant in a rapidly diversifying world.
Source : TheAtlantic