Adeyemo said this during the second international conference of the institution’s Faculty of Basic Medical and Applied Sciences on Monday.
At the event, the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, who was represented by a member of the Governing Council of the University of Ibadan, Prof Akinola Alada, delivered a keynote address, which was themed, ‘Transformational research innovations/approaches for national health and technological advancement.
ASUU threatens FG
The National President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to him, no meaningful development will be achieved if government fails to put issues concerning education on the front burner for global reckoning and competitiveness.
Free education for girls in Kaduna public schools
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the full implementation of free education for female students in the state’s public secondary schools to improve girl-child education.
According to the commissioner, 191,445 female students currently in Kaduna public schools will immediately benefit from the government’s new directive which will cost it N143 million every term and N430 million annually.
The commissioner said the government’s decision will remove any hindrance to girls acquiring quality education as they make up a majority of the over 10 million out-of-school children in the country.
Dangote Cement awards scholarships
A total of 100 students in various tertiary institutions and 15 pupils benefitted from the company’s gesture. The beneficiaries are from the Ewekoro and Yewa North Local Government areas of the state.
The Manager of the Ibese Plant, Armando Martinez, said the gesture was part of the company’s resolve to encourage the young ones to go to school and in return, to rebuild their respective communities.
The Future of Learning
The Independent Schools Examination Board (ISEB) Common Pre-Tests are standardised measures of ability and attainment taken when students are in year 6 or occasionally in year 7. They can only be taken once in any academic year. The senior schools to which students apply register students for the ISEB Common Pre-Tests.
The adaptive tests are created for ISEB by GL assessment. Adaptive means that the test gets harder when the student answers questions correctly and easier when the student answers the questions incorrectly.
The ISEB Common Pre-Tests are computerised tests which comprise of four multiple-choice assessments: English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.
The time allowed for each test is as follows:
- English | 25 minutes;
- Maths | 50 minutes;
- Verbal Reasoning | 36 minutes; and
- Non-Verbal Reasoning | 32 minutes.
2,835 graduates jostle for 200 NDDC foreign scholarships
Addressing journalists on Monday at the Rivers State University, ICT Centre, where the tests were conducted, the Director, Education, Health and Social Services of the NDDC, Mr. Goshua Okejoto, said the choice of electronic examination was to enable the Commission to shortlist the right candidates for the scholarship scheme.
Okejoto said the scheme, which was introduced in 2010, was meant to equip graduates of Niger-Delta origin with the relevant training and skills for effective participation in the local content programme of the Federal Government.
He explained that only candidates, who had completed the mandatory one-year national youth service and secured admission into foreign universities, were eligible to participate in the selection process.
Encourage study of Mathematics in varsities.
Calling on government to introduce a policy that would encourage young Nigerians to study Mathematics, Olayinka, who spoke during the 75th Interdisciplinary Discourse of the UI Postgraduate School, said that proper career counseling was necessary in secondary schools to guide and expose pupils to the opportunities available in studying the subject at university level.
The Guest Lecturer at the event and former President of the African Mathematics Union, Prof Aderemi Kuku, also called on the Federal Government to stop the brain drain in Mathematics, Science and Technology.
NYSC redeploys corps members
A total of 700 out of 1,289 members of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Borno State have been redeployed.
The NYSC Coordinator in Borno State, Alhaji Rabiu Katsina, disclosed this in a meeting with journalists held on Monday in Katsina, capital of Katsina State, after the closing ceremony of the three-week orientation exercise for the 2018 Batch ‘B’ corps members in the state.
Katsina said the corps members were redeployed due to challenges ranging from insecurity and ill-health to marital issues. He said, “We cannot stop the corps members who seek redeployment for health reasons. We have to release them to their respective parents who will continue to take care of them. The same thing applies to female corps members who are married. This is strictly on compassionate grounds.”
The coordinator also said that Borno had decided to pay various monthly allowances to corps members, aside from the normal monthly allowance paid to them by the NYSC, as an incentive to encourage those deployed to the state.
He said, “Borno State now pays N100,000 monthly allowance to corps members who are doctors and N50,000 monthly allowance to corps members who are paramedics, including nurses and physiotherapists.
Access to a college education made easier
Students at two Fresno Unified campuses will soon be able to take their high school courses and attend college on the same campus.
Friday leaders with Fresno Unified and Fresno City College gathered to celebrate “Neighborhood Campus.”
“They can take classes at night so they are with us during the day and they can get ahead and begin gathering transcript credit by going to college in the evening on their own school campus. It is a win, win on all respects,” said Fresno Unified Superintendent, Bob Nelson.
He is excited Edison High School and Sunnyside High School will be home to college courses at night starting this semester.
“Neighborhood Campus” courses will also be available to adults making college accessible to everyone.
“As we continue our partnership we will see more of our offerings here and elsewhere throughout the city. It really is about breaking down the barriers that people have. So we can make education more accessible for everyone,” said Carole Goldsmith, Fresno City College President.
Osinbajo to launch Smart Classrooms, Digital Education Project
The Federal Government has begun moves to establish a digital education institute and provide smart learning classrooms across the country as a way of boosting investments in the Information and Communication Technology ICT. The project, which will be officially launched Tuesday in Abuja by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN will serve as a model technology-based classroom. This was disclosed in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals SDGs, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, released Monday by her Media Assistant, Desmond Utomwen. According to the SDGs boss, the Smart Classrooms and Digital Education initiative, will be implemented in partnership with a Chinese Digital Technology giant, NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited and is in line with the commitment of the government to continue to provide quality education to Nigerian children as stipulated in Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals. SDGs.