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  • Lagos unveils new safety guidelines for private schools

    Lagos unveils new safety guidelines for private schools

    Henceforth private schools in Lagos State must conduct safety audits every term and maintain incident logbook for all accidents within their facilities.

    The Director-General of Lagos State Safety Commission (LSSC), Mrs. Dominga Odebunmi, who disclosed this yesterday, said the agency will not hesitate to sanction errant schools.

    Odebunmi said government will concentrate on strengthening the capacity of school owners and managers to promote safety consciousness.

    She spoke at a news conference on the forthcoming first safety management conference scheduled for November 27-29.

    The conference, which she said is mandatory for all private schools in the state, is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and an educational consultancy firm, SchoolRun Nigeria.

    It holds at the University of Lagos multipurpose hall, Akoka for schools on the mainland while schools on the Island will use the Lagos City Hall.

    Those at the suburbs will attend the conference at the Assembly Hall, Grail land, Iju Hills, Agege.

    Odebunmi said: “safety experts from within and outside the country will seek to update the knowledge of all school owners to the entire gamut of safety to ensure their schools are poised for safety certification, aid schools in innovating safety techniques, acquire knowledge on minimising injuries and risks to health and promoting safety consciousness among pupils and students.”

  • V-Cs release guidelines for honorary degrees

    V-Cs release guidelines for honorary degrees

    The Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities yesterday in Abuja released the guidelines for the award of honorary degrees in the nation’s universities.

    The Secretary-General of the association, Prof. Michael Faborode, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the guidelines would be effective from January, next year.

    He said the 27th conference of the association, held at the Nasarawa State University, examined the erosion of academic culture and tradition.

    He said the guidelines would henceforth be referred to as the “Keffi Declaration’’.

    Faborode said the “Keffi Declaration’’ would reduce indiscriminate award of honorary degrees and restore the age-long university culture and tradition of best practices.

    He said: “We have observed that the number of honorary degree awardees have become uncontrollably large, ranging from one to 20 in a single convocation ceremony and at times presented in absentia to surrogates.

    “We have also noted that most of these awards are based on wealth, political office and position as a means of generating revenue with little or no consideration for integrity.

    “There’s no consideration for contribution to the development of the university and no consideration for national development.’’

    He said that the onward procedure for the award of honorary degrees enjoined universities to make it a policy not to bestow honorary degree on any person holding political office while still in service.

    He said that the guidelines and procedure for the selection of honorary degree recipients should be in accordance with the law and statute of the respective universities.

    According to Faborode, this should be in line with best practices and the selection process should be through the appropriate committee of the awarding university’s Senate.

    “The award of degree should be given to any professional who has made significant or ground breaking discoveries in the areas of accomplishments, invention, and innovation among others to societal development.”

     

     

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