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The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) is a pivotal financial institution established under the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) (Repeal and Re-enactment) Act, 2024. [1] It was signed into law by President Bola Tinubu on 3 April 2024, marking a historic step towards ensuring sustainable higher education and functional skill ...
These include the Rights of the Child Convention (1989) and the World Declaration on Education for All and Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs (1990). One of the major goal of the UBE programme is to ensure that all children, regardless of ethnicity, religion, class, or gender, have access to quality basic education.
In the early 1980s, as a result of high unemployment rates for school graduates, the Nigerian government placed a new emphasis on making vocational programs available to students. [67] The most significant plan for improvement was the Master Plan for 2001-2010 for the Development of the National Vocational Education system developed by the ...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) is a Nigerian government agency set up to regulate higher education in Nigeria. NUC, as it is popularly called, was established in 1962 as an advisory agency in the cabinet office. [1] In 1974, it became a statutory body and its first executive secretary was professor Jibril Aminu.
In Nigeria, the academic grading system scales from A (First class) to F (fail). Below is the grading system of Nigerian schools.. Nigeria offers six years of basic education, three years of junior secondary education, and three years of senior secondary education.
The examination is conducted for international candidates who wish to be admitted into any Nigerian tertiary institution by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). After the conduct of the year's examination, the board sits and deliberates on the cut-off mark for universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and 'monotechniques'.
International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an international examination, an equivalence of the British examination, General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) also offered by the Nigerian students. it is popularly regarded as Cambridge Examination in Nigeria based on the fact that the examination is an initiative of the University of Cambridge.
Starting in 2020, the use of chevrons were introduced to denote student ranking by class. Student classes include JSS1 to JSS3 and SS1 to SS3. Each class is divided into a number of arms which varies with the population of students but is usually between 5 and 9. Arms are often named after precious stones and metals.