05 January 2015 The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, has expressed his displeasure over the increasing rate of unemployment of graduates from the nation's tertiary institutions. Professor Oyewole made this known during the Tertiary Education Trust Fund's 2-Day Capacity Building Workshop on "Entrepreneurship Education and Training for Entrepreneurship Lecturers in Public Tertiary Instit…

05 January 2015 The FUNAAB Gender Policy Drafting Committee (FGPDC) of the University would hold its Stakeholders' Workshop on the FUNAAB Gender Policy, from Thursday, January 29 to Friday, January 30, 2015 at the International Scholars' and Resource Centre (IS&RC). The Chairperson of FGPDC, Professor Grace Sokoya, stated that the workshop would draw participants from the drafting committee, …

Dear Content Contributor, We want to thank our esteemed contributors for the various comments and feedbacks received so far. However, we believe that there is the need for inclusion of teaching courses in the curriculum of all postgraduate courses in our Universities and other higher educational institutions, in order to equip them with adequate teaching methodology/pedagogy that will prepare them…

Dear Content Contributor,   I am thrilled to discover that a lot of work had been done in the areas of teaching and learning in order to enhance students’ and lecturers' performance. In our recent research and discovery on learning and teaching process, we found out that some leading Universities had set the pace that we can follow. That is why I am using Teaching at University of Nottingham as a …

Dear Content Contributor,       Students are major stakeholders in learning and teaching process. Honestly, how to develop critical thinking in them would be a great advantage to this nation and the world at large. That is the reason why we are sharing the experience of Jennifer Anderson-Meger with you this week. I hope you will find it informative and interesting? His presentation starts with: …

Dear Content Contributor,       The Centre for Innovation and Strategy in Learning and Teaching presents steps for Universal Design for effective learning:   1. Teaching Materials: Make sure the content of your lecture is current, detail and applicable to contemporary issues. ‘Teaching materials are the resources a teacher uses to deliver instruction. Each teacher requires a range of tools to draw…

Dear Content Contributor, The QS World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). QS publishes the rankings results in key media around the world, including US News & World Report in the United States and Chosun Ilbo in Korea. The first rankings produced by QS independently of THE, and using QS's consistent and original methodology, were …