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In a bid to improve female education in girls, the UNICEF initiated some projects in Nigeria. one of them is The Girls’ Education Project initiated through a Memorandum of Understanding signed in December 2004 between the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Kingdom Department for International Development. [75]
Mental health in education is the impact that mental health (including emotional, psychological, and social well-being) has on educational performance.Mental health often viewed as an adult issue, but in fact, almost half of adolescents in the United States are affected by mental disorders, and about 20% of these are categorized as “severe.” [1] Mental health issues can pose a huge problem ...
Eze Goes To School centers mainly on Eze Adi, the protagonist of the novel who struggles to get formal education due to his poor family background. Eze finally makes a name for himself due to his intelligence. [4] The novel exhibits the struggles of getting formal education in Nigeria in the 90's. These include truancy, cultism and poverty.
It has asked state governments in Nigeria to allow local ethnic languages to be taught in the educational system. [11] It has also organized workshops and conferences across Nigeria relating to language development , language education , community development , and indigenous rights .
English language serves as the basic instruction language in the Nigeria education system. It is a measure of the evaluation of student's school performance, hence the need for it being a compulsory subject in Nigerian's schools. After independence, the Nigerian educational system remained the same as the colonial era. In Nigeria, English ...
The National Teachers' Institute was founded in 1976 by the Federal Government of Nigeria in response to the country's urgent demand for educated and competent teaching staff at all levels of the educational system. [1] [2] In the NTI's NCE remote learning programs, 34,486 people graduated between 1993 and 1996. [3]
Born on September 23, 1923, in Isale Eko, Lagos, Fafunwa had his secondary education at the CMS Grammar School, Lagos between 1937 and 1943. He obtained a B.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) in Social Science and English from Bethune Cookman College (now Bethune-Cookman University, Florida, United States in 1950 and had his M.A (Cum Laude) in Administration and Higher Education in 1955.
Nigeria offers six years of basic education, three years of junior secondary education, three years of senior secondary education, and four years of tertiary education. Mathematics and English language are compulsory though Mathematics may not be required for some courses in higher institutions.