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Vice-Chancellor(VC) of Delta State College (DELSU), Abraka, Prof Andy Ogochukwu Egwunyenga, has urged Nigerians to brace as much as the truth that high quality training can’t be obtained on a platter of gold however calls for monetary sacrifices from these needing to have it.
Egwunyenga stated that it might quantity to wishful pondering for Nigerians to anticipate high quality college training anyplace with out paying moderately for it, stressing that college system function can be affected by the financial forces identical to each different sector.
The VC said this throughout a press convention yesterday in Abraka campus of the college on the sixteenth Convocation of DELSU, whose programme of actions is to be concluded on Saturday.
Fielding questions from newsmen, together with claims that the state-owned college was charging more and more excessive charges for its tutorial programmes, Prof Egwunyenga famous that the criticism was attributable to the seeming lack of political will by the nation’s leaders up to now to simply accept the truth that high quality training, particularly at tertiary Ievels, calls for an enormous monetary funds.
In the course of the sixteenth Convocation, DELSU might be graduating greater than 4,750 college students who’ve efficiently accomplished programmes of their varied fields of examine within the college, and duly happy the necessities for being ascertained worthy in each character and studying, he stated.
Egwunyenga disclosed that DELSU has established the Directorate of Open and Distant Studying Programme, together with programs in nursing science, for which the NUC visited in February for requisite pre-validation evaluation.
He dismissed fears in some quarters that poor web community would possibly hinder the graceful and efficient operation of the approaching programme, noting that there was no higher time than now for such tutorial exercise.
“Such fears are definitely not supported by actuality of the scenario right now. I’d say, it’s not a community factor; it’s much more applicable now, it’s extra seamless”, he stated.
“The motivation behind ODL institution is to broaden the frontiers of information and supply entry to high quality training and fairness in academic alternatives for many who in any other case would have been denied training.
“On this mode of studying, college students are taught of their houses by means of interactive texts supplemented with different sources comparable to CD ROM, DVD and USB Sticks to ship e-lectures in addition to simulation and assessments.”
“In the course of the commencement ceremony on Saturday, DELSU will confer award on two distinguished Nigerian tutorial giants, particularly Prof Sam Ejite Oyovbaire and Prof Chukwuma P. Aloamaka,” VC additional stated.
He thanked the state authorities for guaranteeing that the college is ready to run uninterrupted, year-on-year tutorial programmes, by means of monetary help, which has enabled the college to rank first amongst state-owned universities within the South-South geopolitical zone, and third in southern a part of the nation.
Professor Egwunyenga, who assumed workplace in 2019 as DELSU’s Vice-Chancellor, stated he felt fulfilled as his promise to take the establishment to a higher pedestal as a distinguished centre for superior studying, analysis and character formation has clearly been realized with all 83 programs provided have been given full-credit accreditation by the Nationwide College Fee (NUC) whereas the coed inhabitants stands at a sizeable determine of 33,000 presently.
He asserted that underneath his watch the college has created a viable atmosphere for correct information impartation, noting that the three websites of the college are reflection globally accepted requirements not solely in tutorial actions but in addition when it comes to infrastructure and environmental atmosphere.
The vice-chancellor, who revealed that the college authorities have maintained a cordial relationship with the host group of Abraka by participating all of the stakeholders constructively, stated that the establishment took the additional step lately by finishing up remedial work on some roads within the city exterior the campuses, together with failed parts of Sapele-Eku-Abraka-Agbor federal street.