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Akwa Ibom Govt To Establish College Of Science & Technology by emmsunday30(m): 7:44pm On Sep 14, 2021 |
As Gov Emmanuel hosts UNILAG
delegation
A College of Science and Technology that
will run as an intermediary programme to
prepare students into Science and bridge
the gap of effective science learning
preceding tertiary education, is to be
established by the Akwa Ibom State
Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel has
announced.
The Governor who stated this on Monday
while receiving a delegation from the
University of Lagos, his Alma Mata, led by
the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Oluwatoyin
Ogundipe who paid him a courtesy visit
at Government House, Uyo, solicited
collaborations with the University of
Lagos in the areas of personnel training
and manpower development said the
state is set to rejig the curriculum of
education generally and that of Akwa
Ibom State University (AKSU) through
collaborative programmes and
entrepreneurial courses packaged to
establish students after their school year.
According to Governor Emmanuel, “So we
are trying to rejig the curricular, we want
to bridge a gap of intermediary education
the way you see in other places, so we are
thinking of establishing a College of
Science and Technology that will serve as
an intermediate programme that will
prepare people to come into science
because in most cases students leave
secondary school and gain admissions
into the University, and most secondary
schools don’t have the same standards, so
we are trying to bridge that gap and it is
an area we need a whole lot of
assistance”.
Continuing, he said, “We want
collaboration with you in our tertiary
institution Akwa Ibom State University,
(AKSU) I am sure the Commissioner for
Education with Vice Chancellor of AKSU
will make a presentation at Exco very
soon in these areas we want collaboration
especially in the area of training our
people, lecturers and a whole lot, this is
because the original vision of that
institution was to specialize in Science
and Technology”.
The Governor also indicated that plans
are underway to formalize empowerment
programmes at the skills acquisition
centre established by the state
government to create jobs for youths,
calling on the University of Lagos to
partner with the state in areas of
manpower development and
entrepreneurial courses in the centre.
Hear him, “This year we announced that
we are declaring a state of emergency in
the education sector beginning from the
basic level, rejig the system, recruit better
teachers and this is an area we want
UNILAG CONSULT to handle for us. We
have a whole lot of areas we will
collaborate as a government, I have a
department headed by youths all they do
is entrepreneurial training and set up, but
I see that I can formalize that and what I
am doing right now is we will set up a full
institution, which after the first year of
studies in that school, one starts earning
money”.
He thanked the delegation for the visit
and promised to support the institution
host the Nigeria University Games
Association (NUGA).
Speaking earlier, the Vice-Chancellor
University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin
Ogundipe, who described Governor Udom
Emmanuel’s leadership as unique in the
state said as an alumnus he has made the
institution proud and expressed readiness
to partner with the state in manpower
development of the state’s tertiary
institution.
“We want to acknowledge your
contributions in the areas of
industrialization and power and we want
to assure you that if there is any area you
want us to collaborate in studies, we will
be ready to collaborate with the state.
“We are bringing on board two major
things, we are ready to collaborate with
you concerning the young university, just
like the Borno State University that we
are going to train their lecturers and some
of their lectures who had to do PhD
definitely we will be able to assist them
because of the collaboration we have with
other tertiary institution outside the
country it will be easy for them to do
their research work.
“The second thing is a collaboration with
the government in areas of studies, you
want to test your feasibility, and we will
do it”, he stated. |
Re: Akwa Ibom Govt To Establish College Of Science & Technology by rottennaija(m): 9:38pm On Sep 14, 2021 |
We don't need college or science and technology. It's old school knowledge. What we need is something different, enticing, drastic. Something like Institute of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, cybernetics and mechatronics. We need something bold 1 Like |
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