Over 70% of candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in four years scored below 200 despite the desire of a majority of them to study highly competitive courses that require more than that. This is deduced from the statistics of…
The University of Ibadan admitted more male students than female students in four years, a research work shows. EduCeleb.com gathered that the research work covered between the 2012/2013, and the 2015/2016 academic session. The research work titled “Analysis of Candidates’ Performance in…
The University of Ibadan management has announced the procedure for admissions into the University for the 2018/2019 academic session. It stated that only candidates who took the UI as their first choice during registration with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)…
Towards a remarkable celebration of the 70th anniversary of the University of Ibadan, the management has set up a planning committee with membership drawn from within and outside the university community. It has appointed two co-chairmen as leading planners for various activities…
A social media campaign tagged #FreeCampusPress has gathered momentum following the suspension of a campus journalist by the University of Ibadan (UI) management. Fisayo Adekunle Adebajo, a law finalist, got suspended for two semesters over a newspaper article he wrote in 2016….
A world universities ranking has once again put the University of Ibadan (UI) as the only Nigerian university to rank among the top 1,000 universities in the world. In the 2018/2019 edition of the global rankings released on Monday by the Center…
The Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) has elected Kayode Adebowale of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science as the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the institution. This election, which the UI Registrar, Olubunmi Faluyi described as “well-contested” was held…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Ibadan chapter (ASUU UI) has constituted a monitoring committee to ensure that contractors engaged by the institution follow the contract model for projects funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). According to the…
Tunji Olaopa writes about the University of Ibadan and its glories as it clocks 70 years of its establishment this year. I wrote this piece with a measure of immense pride. There is no one that will not feel this kind of…
The Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) has advised 408 students at the institution to withdraw over their poor academic performances. It said that the students failed to meet the minimum academic requirements. The meeting of the Senate recently held also…
