File: Education minister, Tunji Alausa
The Federal Government has made participation in Nigeria’s national tertiary education ranking exercise compulsory for all universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, expanding the scheme beyond universities.
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, announced this on Tuesday in Abuja at a meeting with the Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee, which has now been expanded and renamed the Nigerian Tertiary Education Ranking Advisory Committee.
Alausa said the expanded ranking framework was designed to strengthen “quality, accountability, institutional performance and global competitiveness” across the country’s tertiary education system.
He said the ranking would provide institutions with “clear benchmarks for assessing their performance, identifying areas requiring improvement and measuring progress,” while encouraging healthy competition among institutions.
