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ACE Inaugural Lecture: Don Advocates Interest as major factor in admission to study Mathematics

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ACE Inaugural Lecture: Don Advocates Interest as major factor in admission to study Mathematics The Chairman, Committee of Deans and Dean School of Science, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Dr. Folorunsho Balogun has on Thursday 13 th  July 2017 advocated that tertiary institutions should considered the interest of candidates before admitting them for the study of mathematics. Dr. Balogun, a Pure and Applied Mathematician made this call while delivering the 4 th  Inaugural Lecture of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo held at Olusegun Obasanjo on the topic “Mathematics: A dread ‘Enemy’ Yet an Indispensable Friend”. Dr. Balogun in his recommendations note that to make mathematics more friendly and not feared, it need quality teachers who have developed high interest in the subject. “For the attainment of the production of efficient and competent mathematics teachers for schools in the country, interest should be the determining factor for admiss...

Adeyemi University Status Reversal Hope comes Alive, Passes Senate Bill Public Hearing

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Adeyemi University Status Reversal Hope comes Alive, Passes Senate Bill Public Hearing The Adeyemi Federal University of Education, AFUED, which was sometimes put on hold in August 2015 after the public announcement by the immediate past President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has today received a full sigh of hope for reversal of the status. This hope came alive as the Adeyemi University bill and its establishment, named SB 399, was successfully passed unhindered at the Senate committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund. In his own remark while declaring the public hearing opened, the Senate president, ably represented by the Deputy chief whip of the house, Senator Francis Alanumeta, a distinguished senator from Edo state, said that the bill, which came along side other bills in the same line, seeking establishments of Federal universities of Kano, Owerri and Zaria,  named SB 397, 398 &400 alongside the bill seeking the upgrading of Federal  College of Agri...