By Tope Toogun Capacity building for university administrators Can we improve the managerial capability and business acumen of our university administrators? I will recommend attendance at a course like the Lagos Business School’s CEP and AMP (Chief Executive Programnme and Advanced Management Programme) for Vice Chancellors, Rectors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, faculty deans and other layers of…
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By Tope Toogun Broadband Internet access and embedded power generation Second, can we also explore possibilities to guarantee broadband access through fibre-optic networks and constant power through embedded off-grid power plants to all our tertiary institutions, public and private alike? The Oxford Business Group 2015 Nigeria Report indicates that “though internet access is rising throughout…
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By Tope Toogun What is taking place or has taken place at TETFUND should be of interest to all stakeholders interested in curbing graduate unemployability. TETFUND says it is the key agency for actualizing the Ministry of Education’s Strategic Plan in the focal area on Funding, Partnerships, Resource Mobilization and Utilization, towards accomplishing the objectives…
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“Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people”. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Indonesian Economist/ Minister of Finance Everyone needs money,…
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By Tope Toogun News emanating from TETFUND itself corroborates the assertion that all is not well with financial management in our tertiary institutions and TETFUND itself may not have been keeping faith with its own criteria. The agency claims there are funds that institutions have not been able to access because beneficiary institutions were not…
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Capacity Building at Cognity Advisory: At Cognity, since we design and deliberately deliver bespoke interventions to equip individuals with employability and entrepreneurship skills, then this means that we create a win-win situation for both individual, potential employer, and come to think of it, society at large, to blossom. With regards to employability/ entrepreneurial skills, since…
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By Tope Toogun The GE future of work in Africa report advocates “a stronger education system with closer links to industry” and says further “graduate education that does not provide employable skills is a tremendous waste of resources” And resources we have wasted aplenty. Business Day’ headline on August 28 was titled “How Nigeria’s university…
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By Tope Toogun Recently, Prof. Wale Omole, former Vice-Chancellor at OAU, declared that the fundamental issue for us in our education system is the content of instruction, which was developed for us since about 1900AD.We received a post-industrial curriculum for a pre-industrial society. In his opinion, we need to “move from knowledge acquisition to competency…
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“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning” Gandhi This is one of my most favorite quotes of all time from the one and only Mahatma Gandhi – India’s leader of the freedom movement…
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