FG vows to tackle decay in education sector – Tribune
November 24, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Federal Government, on Monday, blamed the decay in the education sector on long years of neglect and mismanagement of the nation’s scarce resources, promising to tackle the issues headlong.
This is coming just as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the union was not opposed to the conduct of the new Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination (JAMB), but called on the Federal Government to amend the relevant laws that would give legal support to the conduct of the UTME.
N4.2b govt books for distribution nationwide – The Guardian
November 20, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Nigeria’s moves to achieve Education for All (EFA) by the year 20-20-20 got a boost yesterday when textbooks for basic education worth over N4.2 billion were made available for distribution to primary four pupils and Junior Secondary Schools nationwide.
