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.
Are Australia’s private schools worth the price tag?
For parents who have the relative luxury of choice in these matters, the question is a vexed one.
Finding the right school for your child is an emotional decision, clouded by prejudice, guilt and hope, distorted by wealth and peer group and the carefully curated aura of private school reputations. In a country that still wants to think of itself as egalitarian, evidence of the growing disparity between Australia’s richest and poorest schools has politicised it too.
But parents want to do the best they can for their children. Lured by the ever-more luxurious facilities of private schools, the smorgasbord of extracurricular activities, the boaters and blazers, the solid feeling of generations of institutional history; some are captive to the idea they are doing children a disservice by sending them to the more modest local public school – particularly in high school, where these decisions seem to bite harder.
Federal cabinet approves 6 new private universities
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved six new private universities.
They are Admiralty Univerity, Ibusa, Delta State; Spiritan University, Nneochi, Abia State; Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Others are Pamo University of Medical Sciences, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; Atiba University, Oyo State; and Eko University of Medical and Health Sciences Lagos.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, told journalists after the FEC meeting, that more requests for private universities’ approval were underway.
He said the Nigerian Universities Commission would take the issue of accreditation very seriously “and if any university fails to meet their standard, we are going to deregister their courses and if enough courses are deregistered, it will lead to the closure of the university.”
Source : Dailytrust
Private universities provide quality education?
Most private colleges in Nigeria can contend positively with their companions abroad on the grounds that they concentrate on giving quality instruction to their understudies, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, Mrs Fatima Jiddum, has said.
She made the comment at a workshop titled ‘Private University and its Place in Nation Building; Standards, Qualities and Expectations’, sorted out by Nile University of Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday.
Source : Dailytrust