Increasing education spending may not necessarily improve outcomes, especially if that spending is misallocated and misaligned. The returns to education are high in most countries. An additional year of schooling increases earnings by 10 per cent a year. At the same time, education is one of the most po...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, says it has expended about N3.8 billion on 1,500 Nigerian scholars studying abroad under its academic training programme as a bailout fund to cushion the effect of the current exchange rate of the Naira. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, m...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has said it would publish the full list of institutions that have submitted their complete student data as requested by the agency for upload onto the NELFUND Student Verification System. NELFUND on Thursday, said the list would be published on June 24, 2024. This list o...
The chairman of the committee on education, tertiary institutions, science, and technology in the Oyo state House of Assembly, Oluwafemi Fowokanmi has called on the heads of tertiary institutions in the state to provide better security architecture in their various institutions to protect lives and prop...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted accreditation to 20 academic programs at Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil. This announcement was made by the university’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Musa Tukur Yakasai, in a statement to the press on Wednesday. The Vice Chan...
One million young Nigerians are to benefit from the National Youth Skills Programme (NYSP), Youth Development Minister Dr. Jamila Bio-Ibrahim said yesterday. The programme will avail them the opportunity to sharpen their skills on how to thrive in modern economy. The minister spoke in Abuja during the 2...
