On President Jonathan’s new PhD Scholarship Scheme

The President’s new initiative to support young first class students' study through to PhD level in some core disciplines (science, engineering and economics) at some of the world’s best Universities could be valuable in principle, as it could potentially contribute to the nation’s current higher education manpower, which in fact is the President’s main justification …

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Revitalising TVET in Nigeria

At a UNESCO workshop on the revitalisation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET - I write mainly about post primary TVET) in West Africa held in Abuja in 2009, I said as representative of the African Union that ‘I am very impressed with what I saw in Kaduna during our visit yesterday [referring …

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