{"id":77713,"date":"2025-10-29T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77713"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:42:40","slug":"omniversity-imperial-college-targets-education-reform-in-nigeria-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/omniversity-imperial-college-targets-education-reform-in-nigeria-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Omniversity Imperial College Targets Education Reform in Nigeria, Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Omniversity Imperial College LLC, with campuses in Missouri, USA, and Lagos, Nigeria, has announced plans to transform higher education in Africa through micro-credentials and practice-based qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an interactive session with the Guild of Public Affairs Analysts of Nigeria (GPAAN), the institution\u2019s President, Prof. Tokunbo Akeredolu-Ale, said the goal is to promote competency-based education that recognises practical skills over paper qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Nigeria\u2019s theoretical education model has reached its limit, calling for reforms that integrate Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL), Competency-Based Evaluation (CBE), and international quality standards such as ISO 21001.<\/p>\n<p>Omniversity, accredited by the Lagos State Ministry of Tertiary Education, offers over 900 international certified courses and is described as the world\u2019s first ISO-certified institution issuing ISO-certified practice qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Akeredolu-Ale said the college aims to make education \u201caffordable, flexible, and transformative,\u201d equipping learners with real-world skills and innovation capacity to drive Africa\u2019s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Omniversity Imperial College LLC, with campuses in Missouri, USA, and Lagos, Nigeria, has announced plans to transform higher education in Africa through micro-credentials and practice-based qualifications. Speaking at an interactive session with the Guild of Public Affairs Analysts of Nigeria (GPAAN), the institution\u2019s President, Prof. Tokunbo Akeredolu-Ale, said the goal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77715,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713\/revisions\/77715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}