Nigeria Universities Updates

Prospective students of the Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo, who missed the Post-UTME test in July for one reason or the other, will get another chance to write the entrance examination and also go through the screening exercise.

The post-UTME screening for all applicants in the Faculties of Humanities, Natural Science and Social and Management Sciences is slated for September 14 at the school premises.

To write the test, applicants must have registered and filled the application form on the school’s website (www.acu.edu.ng). They must also upload their passport photograph and fill in relevant details.

The results for the first batch of applicants who wrote in July are already out and successful candidates have been screened.

Screening interview for Foundation Programme candidates also took place on Tuesday at the old site of All Saints College, Onireke GRA, Ibadan.

The university resumes for freshers on October 11.

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PROFESSOR Babs Aliyu Fafunwa, former Minister of Education seemed not satisfied with the state of Nigerian education as standard and quality keep falling.

Access to education, especially at tertiary levels has become so limited that parents now send their children to universities in Ghana, Benin Republic, Togo an other West African countries.

Poor funding, decay of infrastructure, lack of conducive learning and teaching environments, absence of good, well-stocked libraries, inadeanate online computer-driven libraries, laboratories without equipment, poor academic staffing, irrelevant curriculum have all combined to lower the standard of education in the country.

At an event in the University of Lagos in which the International School, University of Lagos, ISL, held its graduation and valedictory ceremony. Vanguard Education Weekly, caught up with Prof Fafunwa, who briefly bared his mind on the travails of our education system.

He believes that Nigeria’s education system should be reviewed so as to cope with the 21st Century challenges.

As at now, no Nigerian university is ranked among the first 1000 in the world. In previous years tertiary institutions like the University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Lagos, were globally acclaimed. But not so today.

Excerpts of the brief interview with Prof. Fafunwa who has been on retirement can be read by clicking the link below:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/08/18/education-sector-needs-review-%E2%80%94-babs-fafunwa/

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THE management of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) has extended the deadline of registration for its post-UTME screening from August 13 to 22.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr Adekunle Adams announced the extension and directed candidates, who chose the college as first and second choice and scored 180 and above to proceed with the online registration.

He explained that the extension became neccessary to accommodate the high number of candidates that applied to the college.

He also said that candidates who have commenced registration and are not able to complete it by the deadline would be allowed at the examination centre with their receipt of payment, pin number and JAMB print out containing their uploaded photograph and result.

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The 2010 post utme of ABU is out check yours at www.abu.edu.ng No card is needed to check it. Use the pin code that you used to register for the exam plus your jamb number, click print post utme result and you will see your scores.

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THE Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has posted results of its week-long Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on its website.

The results were released at 11:30pm, a few hours after the conclusion of the last paper on Saturday, August 7.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Mrs Anthonia Oyeniji said the exercise which had 26,000 admission seekers participating, was a huge success.

Of the 26,000, 300 candidates were involved in examination malpractices and their results were cancelled.

A candidate for Law made the highest score of 92 per cent.

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UNILORIN Post UTME second choice registration is on for those waiting for its go ahead and register.

You can check out their website on this site under universities website

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