Dear Colleague, I am pleased to invite your participation in our youth social indicators project ‘call for papers’ and request you to kindly disseminate this letter to faculty members whose research focuses on topics related to adolescent and youth development in Nigeria. Of particular interest are papers from education, social sciences, health sciences and agricultural sciences. The aim of …
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Lately, I have been reflecting on much of the analysis work and discourse on higher education (HE) in Nigeria. It appears, to me at least, that majority of the informed voices (many of them from within the HEs) blame the state of HE institutions on the government. However, I point here to one of five …
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I had the most amazing birthday discussion of my life (well with the exception of 23: 24 day in 2005!) on April 23, 2012, thanks to Ms. Hilda Dokubo and the Centre for Creative Arts Education. The theme of the discussion was ‘towards integrated youth development framework, financing and programming.’ In a very stimulating and thought-provoking intervention …
This morning, I was involved in an outreach to the School for the Gifted in Gwagwalada on the outskirts of Abuja. It was most exhilarating to finally be in a school for the gifted. I had learnt about gifted children in educational psychology classes at college and the imperative for providing them with specialised educational …
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- By Jocelyne Kamwanya Mwabi In South Africa, after nearly two decades of democracy there is a fear that the quality of education has decreased despite the huge investments made by the local and national government into the educations systems from the primary to the tertiary level. It is possible that in trying to rectify …
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