STEP-B Nigeria

The STEP-B Project is a Nigerian project on Science and Technology Education at the Post-Basic Level (STEP-B). 

The objective of the STEP-B project is to achieve two goals that relate to education and research in Nigeria: (1) for Nigerian education and research institutions and their partners to produce more and better qualified science and technology graduates at the post-basic level (2) and for these same institutions to produce higher quality and more relevant research.

As the STEP-B project grows and its benefits become widespread four things will occur:

1. Increases in the number of students trained in science and technology (S&T)-related areas
2. Improvements in quality (like more publications, more collaborations between researchers in the public and private sectors, and between institutions in education and in research, and between Nigerian institutions and their partners internationally).
3. Improvements in teaching and learning of S&T (these could include opportunities for better teacher training or improvements to technical and vocational education and training, or perhaps better use computers and the internet as tools in teaching and learning)
4. Improved relevance of S&T education and relevance to the needs of Nigeria

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Recent Articles      --open articles' vault--

The STEP B Project: Accessing Its Gains and Promises |  The vision underlying the STEP-B Project is of strong S&T-led growth for Nigeria. The project aims to achieve impact by strengthening the capacity of federal post-basic education institutions and their management systems to deliver high quality products that are relevant to the country's S&am....Read more -Published by Prof M.U. Adikwu FAS, 18th Jan 10

IOT Workshop September 2010 Dear All, I write to inform you that the World Bank has given No Objection to the award of Innovators of Tomorrow Award to 538 students in 228 Departments in 34 higher education institutions in Nigeria.  The full list of approved IOT award is attached for your kind information.  We are concluding arrangement to publish the list or at least a summary of the award in the press next week. As is customary in STEP-B, we are planning a capacity building workshop for all th....more National Project Secretariat STEP-B Project - 2nd Quarter Newsletter Capacity building The months of May and June 2010 witnessed a lot of capacity building for Project Officers in the area of Communications, Audit and Financial Management....please state dates, venue, resource persons and value added. Innovators of Tomorrow (IOT). A team of six renowned scientists as Technical Review Committee (TRC) assessed 786 proposals of Innovators of Tomorrow. Out of the proposals 536 were recommended for funding by t....more