During the foundation laying ceremony, the minister commended the University for its Foresight and urged it to sustain the tempo.
Adamu was represented by Hajiya Fatima Jidda-Ahmed, the Director, Tertiary Institutions in the Federal Ministry of Education
He expressed the hoped that the institution would take advantage of the partnership with Germany, not only in power generation, but in encouraging engineering students gain from the partnership
Browsing: Adamu Adamu
Adamu said the teaching profession had declined and there was need to ensure professionalism to improve the quality of education
It said: “No PTA of any unity college is allowed to initiate any development project in any of the unity colleges without the express or written authorisation of the Federal Ministry of Education
The National Parents and Teachers Association of Federal Government Colleges recently alerted the public to over 300 per cent increase in school fees
The statement, signed by Bem Goong, the Deputy Director of Press of the Ministry, said the minister could not establish the rationale for a second test for NCCE organised by the National Examination Council
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, stated this in a statement by the Deputy Director (Press and Public Relations) in the Ministry of Education, Ben. Bem-Goong
The group, in a statement by its Secretary General, Sunday Attah, described the post-UMTE as an exploitative practice to “extort admission seekers under the guise of screening them for competence”
A statement by CESJET Executive Secretary, Comrade Ikpa Isaac, said the relative stability maintained in the education sector was despite the economic hardship that has limited government’s ability to implement projects.
The News Agency of Nigeria Education Correspondent reports that the students carried placards with various inscriptions: “Nigerian Students Say No to Abuse of University Rules and Processes”; “Universities not National Cake. Re-instate our Vice-Chancellors”, among others
He said: “This government has already decided to even add more; it is going to establish six new universities of science and technology.
“And at the lower level, there will be a technical school in each state of the federation and then vocational centres at the wards and local government levels
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NgREN is the national research network for Nigeria, established to provide connectivity infrastructure and service layers for innovation in teaching and research in the country
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the minister recently announced the appointments of the vice-chancellors, an action criticised by stakeholders
According to Etuk, the sacking of the VCs and their replacement with people mostly from the North violated the federal character principles
The CVC raised this concern in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja
He listed underfunding, poor teaching infrastructure, absence of laboratory and research equipment and brain-drain from tertiary institutions as other challenges facing the education sector he would tackle as priorities