The proposal is based on “take your daughter to work day”, which began in 1993 as a way of exposing girls to as wide a range of careers as possible, and aims to address the growing gender gap at British universities where female students outnumber male. Girls are already outperforming boys at the end of primary school when they take their key stage 2 Sats, with 68% of girls reaching the expected standard compared to 60% of boys. This summer 17.1% of boys in England attained top marks, an A or 7 and above, in their GSCEs compared with 23.4% of girls. That gap persists at A-level.
University league tables 2019
| 1 | 1 | Cambridge | 100 | 89 | 91 | 70 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 225 | 5.8 | 88 | 99 |
| 2 | 2 | Oxford | 97.4 | 90 | 92 | 68 | 10.5 | 9.9 | 217 | 6.6 | 85 | 99 |
| 3 | 3 | St Andrews | 97.2 | 93 | 94 | 82 | 11.6 | 5.2 | 206 | 7.1 | 82 | 97 |
| 4 | 6 | Loughborough | 87.9 | 90 | 89 | 75 | 13.8 | 6.3 | 162 | 6.1 | 82 | 96 |
| 5 | 4 | Durham | 87.6 | 89 | 89 | 76 | 14.9 | 5.1 | 198 | 6.7 | 84 | 97 |
| 6 | 5 | Bath | 84.1 | 88 | 88 | 72 | 15.8 | 6.3 | 186 | 6.6 | 85 | 97 |
| 7 | 6 | Imperial College | 83.3 | 83 | 85 | 65 | 11.4 | 8.6 | 219 | 5.7 | 90 | 96 |
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2018/may/29/university-league-tables-2019
AfDB, CU to create 9m jobs
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Aderemi Atayero, disclosed this during its 17th matriculation ceremony held on the campus in Its last Friday. The V-C, while speaking to the 1,525 undergraduate and 135 post-graduate matriculating students, said, “According to The Nigerian Graduate Report, graduates of this university are highly employed and this is because Covenant equips her students with entrepreneurial skills that ensure self-employment. This is also validated by the Excellence in Quality Entrepreneurship Education Award received recently.
Atayero also said the programme would equip youths across Africa with skills needed to secure ICT related employment and businesses.
Harvard – should race count in university admissions?
Harvard University this year turned down more than 95% of those who applied.
But what is a “fair” system for deciding who should be rejected and who should be the lucky few to get a place?
What should the successful 5% look like?
Should it just be those with the highest academic credentials? Or would it be fairer to ensure a more diverse ethnic and social mix?
And it’s a dispute that will be watched carefully by many other over-subscribed universities around the world.
Covenant University joins global ranked universities.
The ranking platform also says Covenant University has had a rapid rise in reputation in the decade and a half it has been operating. The Nigerian Universities Commission named it the best private university in Nigeria in its 2018 rankings and the 6th best university overall.
Profiling the institution on its website, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings describes the school as one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian Mission Ethos.
Earlier in February 2018, Webometrics, another university ranking website rated Covenant University as the second best university in Nigeria.
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The suspension has been a big surprise to us : OAU Students
Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have reacted with a mixture of surprises to the National Universities Commission recent suspension of accreditation for six of the courses offered in the institution.
The NUC, according to a report by The Cable, had suspended the university’s Law, Dentistry, Botany, Fine and Applied Arts, Family Nutrition and Consumer Science programmes.
Initially, Medical Rehabilitation was listed among the courses, but investigation showed that it was not really affected by the commission’s decision.
Some of the students of the institution whose courses were affected by the development, in separate telephone interviews with our correspondent, said they thought the suspension was just a “joke” from the NUC. One of them, a 300 level law student, Badrudeen Olawale, wondered how the commission arrived at the decision not to accredit OAU’s law for the 2018/2019 academic session.
He said, “The suspension has been a big surprise to us. Many of us still find it difficult to believe that the NUC could do this to Obafemi Awolowo University. I can tell you that the Faculty of Law here is one of the best in the country in terms of structure, facilities and academic prowess. What else does the commission want the faculty to provide?
NUC grants Elizade varsity full licence
The National Universities Commission has granted Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State Full Operational (Statutory) Licence to operate as a private university in the country.
The issuance of the full operational licence to the University followed the institution’s outstanding performance during the commission’s Institutional Accreditation visit to the University.
It will be recalled that the Federal Executive Council at its meeting of Wednesday, 22nd February, 2012, considered and approved a Provisional Licence for the establishment the University. The FEC approval was later conveyed to the university by the commission in a letter dated, 28th February, 2012.
LAUTECH threatens to resume strike
Workers at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on Wednesday threatened the Oyo State government and its Osun state counterpart that it will resume its strike action in two weeks time, if the states refuse to fulfill it’s agreement with the union.
Five-year strategic plan not sufficient for varsities
The Vice-Chancellor of the Osun State University, Prof. Labo Popoola, has said that the current five-year strategic plan for Nigerian universities is not sufficient to reposition them to address emerging development demands.
Speaking during the Second Foundation Lecture of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, Popoola noted that although great universities were supposed to be products of proper planning, investment of time and other resources, many Nigerian universities did not go through a rigorous planning process.
He said, “Some contemporary Nigerian universities are opportunistic. The moment something goes wrong with the source of that opportunity such institutions collapse.
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