Bilkisu Labaran, a veteran journalist with the renowned BBC, promoter of all things African including UKAPES supporter and moderator, talks on the transformation in the world of media and what must be done to adapt to the constant changes. Bilkisu is an Editor at the BBC World Service in London. Her previous role included […]
The GAB Awards celebrate African people in the media, financial services, business, retail and other walks of life. Highly-coveted within the Diaspora African community, Joyce Elemson, who has worked at Lewisham College for 9 years, picked up the accolade at this year’s ceremony, which was held virtually for the first time due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Joyce was praised for her significant contribution to improvements […]
As the world combats Covid-19 with the speedy production of vaccines to eradicate the disease, it continues to impact on people economically, emotionally and academically. Media reports on Covid statistics show that Europe and the Americas have suffered resurgences in the winter following a lull in the number of infections and deaths. Daily exposure to […]
Purpose: Paradigm shift – Education and Business and The Way Forward. 14 Great Home-Based Business Ideas For Everyone In 2020 the world turned upside down and hundreds of millions of people around the globe found themselves in lockdown at home Millions of workers were furloughed wondering if redundancy was just round the corner. However, […]
SASSBUC expansion to other parts of Nigeria included Ibadan in the Southwest and Warri in the mid-western parts where 2 co-ordinators were appointed. The Ibadan and Warri co-ordinators, Louise Omoyine and Ochuko Ediru both recruited participants to the programme who registered and duly attended sessions scheduled bi-weekly in May, June, July and August 2020. Despite […]
Post-UME Tests and consequences on University intakes As mentioned earlier, University funding has dwindled to the lowest as less attention continues to be paid to higher education, and there are no motivations for private organisations to sponsor academic research. Universities therefore have become desperate to generate fund to be sustainable by imposing Post-University Matriculation Screening […]
Secondary Education With the enormity of inadequacy in knowledge and lack of capacity from the early years, education for socio-economic development remains alien to the child. Years back in the 1960, 70s and to some extent the 1980s, school libraries and science laboratories were functioning. Whilst the libraries provided useful books and journals on a […]
The debate surrounding the structure and quality of education in Nigeria is enormous and wide ranging. Although this paper may not be able to detail all the challenges, it will bring some of them into focus. It is however important to state from the onset that the overall responsibility for profound evaluation of Nigeria’s educational […]
The online discussion initiated by UKAPES co-founder, Joyce Elemson with Dr Lilian Schofield, Dr Toyin Coker and Mbeke Waseme navigates Post Covid-19 Pedagogy. Much appreciation to panelists for taking precious time out of very busy schedules for the discussion.
Remote learning is a concept that has been imposed on many schools and families due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools by many governments. The idea of students attending primary and secondary school from home is not self-chosen by most families, but has become a way to make the best of […]