Teachers wishing to register with the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) are now to sit for a professional examination. Dr Steve Nwokocha, National Director, Professional Operations of TRCN, dropped this hint in Lagos when he called on the Lagos Deputy Governor, Mrs Sarah Sosan. Nwokocha also said that the first of such examination would be conducted next month. According to him, those who pass the examination will be awarded licences to practise, while they ...

The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), has infused the Family Life HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) into the nine-year basic education curriculum. Briefing newsmen in Enugu, the Executive Secretary of the council, Professor Godswill Obioma said the measure was to create awareness on HIV/AIDS in school children and to internalise social values. Obioma explained that it would also help to grow the culture of empathy and control on those that were infected as well as promote positive disposition toward infected and ...

Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Olufemi Bamiro, has called for better funding of federal universities. Addressing a news conference in Ibadan on the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the institution, Bamiro said the current situation in the universities called for urgent change of attitude by stakeholders. He said the country's premier university needed more funding for it to continue to play its leading role and facilitate the growth and development of education in the country. "The Federal Government should stop playing politics with the nation's university system.  As long as we continue to ...