The declining quality of tertiary education in Nigeria has become a source of worry as it has continued to affect the quality of graduates churn out annually by the nation’s institutions.
The institution has collaborated with many institutions and agencies to bring about various development, which has put it among the U6 consortium. . “The latest is the one with the University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, Bakersfield and the Bowling Green State University, Ohio in the United State of America.
To make this dream become a reality, he added that his team decided to set up a ranking/visibility committee whose mandate was to ensure that the university is moved forward in ranking among universities. The VC listed some of the programmes to include Architecture, Estate Management/ Evaluation, Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Urban and Regional Planning, adding that the Dentistry Faculty rates as the best equipped in Nigeria, owing to its superb clinic and labs filled with state of the art facilities.
He added that a police station has already been completed and was awaiting commissioning for effective patrolling of the staff quarters and other vulnerable locations. He enumerated three projects that had been completed since he came on board to include the Hogan Bassey ultra-modern parking lot, Faculty of Law e-library and Godswill Akpabio Engineering lecture theatre.
Other areas which the VC said the institution had made tremendous strides include the area of ICT development which he claimed has witnessed increased productive capacity, alumni relations, sport development, improvement in ranking and visibility expansion of curriculum. “Normally results is supposed to be on the various notice board in our departments. Unfortunately, we are being told to buy scratch cards before we can access our results. I do not think that it is healthy for students. My passionate appeal to the management of the institution is that the result should be accessible to students instead of making us to spent money unnecessarily before our results are accessed.
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