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The role of parents in a child’s education.

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It is apposite to posit that in order to properly build up a child and make a total man/woman out of him/her, there is an absolute need for the cooperation between the home and the school.  It is in appreciation of this dictum that the
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The decline in quality education in nigeria (2) The role of parents in a child’s education.

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Last week, I wrote about the misconception of the true role of education which in large measure has resulted in the decline in quality of education in Nigeria. I stated among others that the purpose
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The Decline In Quality Education In Nigeria (1) The Purpose Of Education

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“Education is the most potent weapon to fight ignorance and poverty as well as a veritable tool for self development and advancement of society”. Education serves as a means through which the knowledge, learning and skills of a society or group of people is passed from generation to generation.
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THE ROLES OF TEACHERS IN DWINDLING EDUCATION (4) Teachers And Time Management

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“No other irreplaceable resource has been wasted in Nigeria, like the resource of time. The capital lost by Nigeria to illegal oil bunkering, gas flaring, oil spillages and other oil related environmental degradation put together cannot equal 10 percent of the capital it loses due to lack of proper time management by its working class”.
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DWINDLING EDUCATION IN NIGERIA:

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ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS   “Amend the NUC law and give the commission sufficient powers of immediate and outright closure of illegal universities with further powers of severe sanctions including forfeiture of the school properties to government while the promoters, founders, councils and teachers of such illegality should face life imprisonment”.   Long ago during...
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S RECURRING POLICY TO FEED PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS NATIOWIDE; CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

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    “The State Houses of Assembly have the powers to make laws with respect to primary education. Rather than embark on programmes which have already been embarked upon by the State governments pursuant to laws enabling them in that regard, the Federal Government should identify other ways of keying into the programs of the...
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POST UTME AND ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL AND QUALITATIVE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; THE ANSWER (3)

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“I am aware that in choosing institutions, students and their parents take a lot of things into consideration such as proximity, cultural or traditional background, the status or reputation of the university and even religion and economic means”.   In continuation of my examination of the controversy generated by the policy announced by the Joint...
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POST UTME AND ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL AND QUALITATIVE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; THE ANSWER (2)

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As a result of this the Committee of Pro Chancellors under my chairmanship met to deliberate on the possibility of scrapping JAMB. At the end of intense debates which as a matter of fact was witnessed by top management of JAMB, the Committee of Pro Chancellors recommended the scrapping of JAMB to the Presidency. However...
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“SACK” OF VICE CHANCELLORS AND APPOINTMENT OF NEW ONES: THE ROLE OF A VISITOR IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

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“SACK” OF VICE CHANCELLORS AND APPOINTMENT OF NEW ONES: THE ROLE OF A VISITOR IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION “If the President or Visitor takes over the duty of the Council to appoint a Vice-Chancellor, he has acted ultra-vires. It must be added that the Ministry of Education or the NUC has no legal right whatsoever to...
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PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES: THE HOPE OF NIGERIA’S TERTIARY EDUCATION (5)

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PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES: THE HOPE OF NIGERIA’S TERTIARY EDUCATION (5)  “Congratulations sir, for being a beacon of hope for generation of Nigerian parents who desperately desire a great future for their children without sending them to study abroad”.  In this edition, I will examine the criticism levied by Mr. Laolu Harolds against NUC and Private Universities on...
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