Education

Teachers pimping students and or fellow teachers for financial and non-financial gains.  Teachers selling handouts and other documents to supplement their income…Sadly, these are some of the realities in our …

I once encountered a scenario where some fellow Nigerians where joining a Ghanaian to run down Nigerian’s way of speaking. They were busy praising the “Ghanaian English” pronunciation with its …

What is the goal of our education system? What values and national goal do we hope to achieve? What values do we also hope to inculcate in our youths through …

There must be logic to the reasons why we create and want universities. Universities are not made for everyone and that should be clear from the onset…

The raging questions for higher education technocrats’ have always been, who currently pays for higher education institutions? Who currently benefits from higher education? Who should pay for higher education in …

I didn’t like day schooling. And I wasn’t sure how things would turn out when the idea of a boarding school was broached…

I am very sad that I have been forced by some very horrifying reports coming out of our various university campuses to seriously regret my earlier support for post-JAMB tests…

A university remains a university no matter where it is located, even if it is in Enugwu-Ukwu or Ijebu Ode; its output should be evaluated against the outputs of other …

The federal government has played a limited role in education. The Constitution gave the state governments the authority and power to fund education and thus the primary responsibility of educating …

It is certain that Nigerians value school more than education. We forgot that education brings the information or knowledge but school only places the certificate. So, which one is better?

Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage…

Most of the students I’ve taught Literature-in-English in my school come in expressing an aversion to poetry or poems. So, to get them involved and interested, I try to convince …

If you successfully pass your A Level exams with three straight As, there should be no school anywhere in the world that should take you for granted…

I am writing this to shed light on the heavy shadow of ignorance among students who wish to obtain a scholarship to attend university in America and expect to do so …

It is important that we clarify what we mean when we tell our candidates to be ‘calm’ before a near syllabus-less exam like the SAT or TOEFL…

No matter who you are as a journalist, you are very, very dispensable. And because of your dispensable status quo, you find that you may have to change jobs every …