PAYMENT OF STUDENTS UNION DUE

EKSU SU PRESS WROTE :


 
PAYMENT OF STUDENTS UNION DUE

The proposed Students Union due for this semester had been approved by the Students Senate Council and subsequently approved by the University Management.

To this end, Students are advised to proceed to their various faculties and pay the sum of #200 through the Students Union agent and collect the Students Union receipt which will be demanded by the Faculty Officer at the point of course registration.

Also, 100L Batch B are to show the receipt at the point of collection of examination permit.

While appreciating you for your cooperation, we promise to ensure your welfare, protect your interest and deliver to you the dividend of studentacracy.

Signed.

Olajide Busayo Titus. Suara Taofeek
Fin. Sec. EKSUSU. Treasurer EKSUSU

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The Vice-Chancellor of the Ekiti State University, Prof. Oladipo Aina has described members of the Alumni Association of EKSU as part of the true owners of the University.

Prof. Aina made the remarks at a special convention held at the 3000-seater auditorium inside the University Campus organized to amend the constitution of the Alumni association

The Vice-Chancellor who commended the alumni members for their tenacity, abiding faith and love for their alma mater informed them that great Universities all over the world mostly depend on  their alumni for  donations, grants and endowment to boost their financial status.

Prof. Aina explained that EKSU must begin to look beyond government for financial support and expressed optimism that  the over fifty thousand strong alumni members of the University are capable of turning around the fortunes of the institution.

The National President,  of the EKSU alumni, Mr. Bola Ogunlayi assured the Vice-Chancellor of the readiness of the association to work with the incumbent leadership of the University towards achieving its vision of becoming a globally ranked University.

Laptop Donation to Theatre and Media Arts Department

The newly established theater and Media Arts Department of  Ekiti State University has received a boost following a donation of  three units of computer laptops to the Department by Mr Tope Agbeyo.

The donor who is the Chief Executive Officer of Botosoft Technology and an indigene of Usi Ekiti said his gesture was to show support for the University. He said it was also to contribute to the growth of the new Theatre and Media Arts Department.

The Head of Department of the Theatre and Media Arts, Dr. Kola Oyewo said Mr. Tope Agbeyo  gesture was to show love to Ekiti State University.

The Vice-Chancellor of the Ekiti State Prof. Oladipo Aina who spoke through the Dean of Faculty of Arts, Prof. M.A. Abiodun thanked Mr. Tope Agbeyo for the gesture and called on other well meaning Ekiti indigenes to support the State owned University.

Ekiti State University To Establish Institute Of Medical Technology In Ifaki- Ekiti

Ekiti State University( EKSU) is set to establish a new Institute of Medical Technology in its Ifaki-Ekiti Campus.
Medical Technology discipline is a paramedical field where trained and certified Medical Technologists can build careers as Ultrasound Technician, Radiologist, Health Informatics, and Cardiovascular Technician.

The Medical Technology programme is globally relevant with good job availability in clinical laboratory, academic research, public health, teaching and the pharmaceutical industry. The new programme whic would be highly subscribed will attract over 2,000 students. 

They would be joining about 2,000 other students who are already in the Science Laboratory Technology and the Pre-Degree programmes. In addition to the existing facilities, a new 1,500 seater lecture theatre has just been constructed on the Campus to accommodate this new programme.

Meanwhile a Memoranda Of Understanding (MOU) has just been signed with a private agricultural entrepreneur to establish a commercial farm on the 400ha land on the Campus. It is believed that this initiative will add value to the entrepreneurial experience of our students and create jobs for the Community.

EKSU will not increase fees, says VC [FULL REPORT]

Prof Patrick Oladipo Aina was appointed the Vice-Chancellor, Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti on December 2, 2011. In this interview with ADEGUNLE OLUGBAMILA, the professor of Soil Physics from Ohio State University, United States, debunks rumours of impending fee hike. He said the Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has raised the university’s monthly subvention

When you came on board, what challenges did you meet and how have you addressed them?

There were many, and by the grace of God we have been able to tackle them. The first was the declining academic culture that was associated with a number of factors on campus. The sale of handout was so rampant that once a student bought a handout, that student needed not attend lectures. It was also rumoured then, though it may not be right, that it (sale of handouts) was like a certificate. Teachers were not attending lectures. So the first thing I did was to stop the sale of handout to students. The directive had to go through the Senate of the university and it is now a law.

I also knew if I was stopping the sale of handout, then I had to replace it with something better. So I encouraged the academic staff to start academic publishing books – with incentives from the university to enable them publish good quality books – because I also wanted to improve the reading culture of our students. So for the past two years, sale of handouts has stopped and the new practice has come to stay.

What other loopholes did you block?

I found out that it was not only the students that were being extorted. I started codifying the account to streamline the account system. Some of the subsidiary charges paid to department are now paid to the university so that they would be better managed and that the money would not end up in private pockets.

There are rumours of a likely increase in tuition.

People often wonder how we are able to run the university with such low tuition; but they forget that we have internal mechanism in addition to the subvention from government.

We have a government that does not dictate to Governing Council to raise fees. Aside, our governor is intellectually inclined and he knows what it is to have a world-class university. He knows the state he is running is the second least receiver of federal allocation nationwide. He knows the people are poor and he is trying to improve their lots by making poverty a thing of the past. So he cannot over tax the citizenry. This is why he is also helping the university with linkages to top rated universities all over the world.

Some of the subsidiary charges paid to departments is now paid to the university so that they would be better managed and that the money would not end up in private pockets. But the tuition remains N50,000 because government has not mandated us not to increase, and we will not increase it.

This is why EKSU, when compared with other universities in the country today, is about the least-charging fees among public institutions nationwide. I want the public to know that there is no university anywhere in the world that is 100 per cent financed by government. Universities are repository of knowledge that can be marketed all over the world.

But beyond the tuition, students are complaining of other charges

Like in other universities, we have other charges. Students will register and the fee is N3,500 for the first year. In subsequent years, students pay N1,500. First year students also pay Acceptance Fee of N32,000 which is in order as compared with other universities because we are providing internet and that cannot be free. They pay for sports and register at the Health Centre with N7,500 that will reduce to N1,500 in subsequent years. And then the field trip is equally important. Students Handbook is N1,000 and that is for the first year only. We don’t charge all of them for field trip. Those in Geology, Agriculture, and Geography pay for field trip. That is why these subsidiary fees depend on students’ discipline. It is not that we charge across board. By the time we combine all these together, it adds up to about N40,000

However, if we compare this with what they were paying before in their departments, you will see that the total is still less. I’m sure parents are even happy now because they are paying less. In the past, parents came to complain that their children were demanding for N200,000, meanwhile, the school fees is just N100,000 or less than that. Now, we have students paying less than N80,000. Final year students in Agric and Law are paying less than N32,000. The total amount our students in Medicine are paying is N188,400 in their fourth year. They pay N100,000 for Clinical Studies which every student of Medicine must pay nationwide.

In the long run, it’s just like N88,000 which to me is ridiculously low. This is university is where we have top-rated professors. Over 25 and the limited number of students per class is 50. That is how we pegged it for Medicine and Law. With such a low number of students, you expect that the fees should be about a million. It means the fees they are paying is not up to one third of the salaries of the staff teaching them. In most private universities, students will be charged up to N1 million because of the 50 per class. So people looking at this would think this school will soon raise its fees but I tell you we are not going to do that. We have been coping with rumours of increase in tuition for the past two years.

What has been the reaction of students? Do they actually key into this?

I want to tell you categorically that students are not protesting. They are happy because they are paying less. You can go and talk to them. Before now, what they were paying for had no records but today they know better. You can imagine a student buying handouts worth over N50,000 aside various departmental charges. We have a good relationship with them. I interact with students. I go around classrooms to see whether my colleagues are teaching. I go to the market. A week ago, I visited some of the markets where students buy foodstuff to see what they experience. I went to their hostel and that gave me the idea that we need to have hostels on campus. Many of them live in dilapidated hostels and some of these hostels charges high rent.

We have a committee chaired by the Dean of Student Affairs we have set up a committee to include the landlords because we want to enforce the standards by pegging the rent. The committee now meets with landlord regularly.

Earlier, you talked about those investments the university is leveraging on. Can you identify some of them?

We are working on some of our investments so that in the shortest time possible, we will de-emphasise our dependence on school fees. We have EKSU Ventures that will go into investment portfolios. We have started making cement blocks, so that we can supply blocks to all the new structures that are coming on in the university. This also will form part of our entrepreneurship studies to our students, that is, our students will be taught the block-moulding skills. We are also starting the production of table water, and a bakery that will produce both cassava and wheat bread. We have a Guest House services. We also have the Ekiti State Consultancy Services. We have just finished a project for the Ekiti State Federal Government World Bank Projection Irrigation Feasibility. This is an outlet for marketing the outcome of our researches through consultancy services.

Lately, we established the Advancement Centre with a 22-member board headed by Prince Julius Adelusi Adeluyi, a distinguished Nigerian whose clout, we believe, will generate funds for the university. We look for endowment; we will cultivate entrepreneurship and philanthropy. All these we believe can make 30 per cent of our annual budget. Our operating budget is N7 billion a year; our subvention is about N4.2 billion, so we need IGR to subsidise this. We have linkages universities in South Africa, Great Britain and in US, and Canada. It might interest you that the government has facilitated over 50 per cent of these linkages.

You recently introduced new programmes. Does the university have the financial infrastructure to see them through?

All our programmes now have full accreditation status. The last time, this university put up 45 programmes for NUC accreditation and all of them were accredited except for some few that were given one year before being reaccredited. Full accreditation was more than 75 per cent but there was none that failed accreditation.

The new programmes we have just introduced are globally relevant, and will make our graduates stand competitive advantage. These programmes are now designed in a way that will also generate revenue. It will impact practical knowledge on students.

For example, look at Gender and Development Studies, it has entrepreneurial aspect and it is a programme that can attract linkages with other universities as well as research grants globally. We also have the Institute of Peace Security and Governance that is going to be established by Governor Fayemi. You know governance and security are so important in African context today. We are hopeful the programme will be oversubscribed when it eventually takes off. We also have Theatre & Media Arts and its diploma aspect.

In terms of ICT, we have the collaboration with GOOGLE Africa APPS wireless cloud projects to provide broadband internet access and state-of-the-art e-learning facility. The ongoing ICT infrastructure will be completed by next month. We also have WI-FI on campus and very soon the next Council meeting will be paperless. Once these facilities are on ground, we are going to start the e-learning and e-administration. Our Webometric ranking has also improved from 79 to 17.

On your assumption, you introduced the no sale handout directive. To what extent is this is being enforced?

I took the case to the Senate of the university, and fortunately members agreed with me. If for instance an academic staff sells handout, he is dismissed. If a student buys it, he is also dismissed outright. The vice-chancellor has been empowered to dismiss immediately if I can prove that handout were sold. I have twitter, and my lines are open. So if any student buys any handout from any lecturer I get alert on my line immediately. Since we made that law no student has reported sale of handout. Besides that, I go to lecture rooms.

Other vices like sexual harassment, examination malpractices, and cultism have gone down drastically. What we practise in EKSU today is instant justice. We have dismissed a good number of staff for sexual harassment. We have about 300 students suspended now on various allegation of examination fraud, and about 50 have been dismissed already. The disciplinary committee meets regularly now and members mete out these penalties on regular basis. Students now enjoy the lease of life on campus. They know they cannot go against the matriculation oath, while teachers as well dare not contravene the university law.

Have you encountered any backlash from workers?

I just thank God that I haven’t encountered any. You see, if a reform is favourable, and as a leader you tend to carry people along and let them know the end result and they see that the result is as accurate as you proposed it, the confidence will be reposed in you. More than before, workers now have confidence in the leadership of the university; and that is why there has never been any protest.

In terms of promotion and training, does a worker automatically get his due even if he meets his or her requirement or do you operate ‘no vacancy no promotion policy’?

We have not gotten to that stage yet. We still have vacancies and promotion. If you are due for promotion, rest assured you will get it. But we have a new process where you have to go through exams. The idea is just to remove this subjectivity in the assessment of staff. We realise that only verbal interview can be very subjective so workers go through about three exams series before the final round which is the oral interview. But most people get through anyway. And let me stay the staff have also bought into that.

What would you love to be remembered for at the end of your tenure?

I love to be remembered for my contributions in turning around this university to a world-class institution. That will be my greatest legacy. I want people to say one Aina was here and started this roadmap to making what this institution is today.

A world-class university is not only physical. Currently, we are having real ecstatic high value of our campus now than it used to be. I also want to change human beings, get my colleagues to be involved in cutting edge research that will not only turn around the fortunes of the state but Nigeria at large. io want our products to be known all over the world; I mean graduates that are job-creators.

Ekiti Varsity to establish institute

The Ekiti State University (EKSU) is set to establish an Institute of Medical Technology on its Ifaki-Ekiti campus.
Medical Technology is a paramedical field where certified technologists can build careers as ultrasound technicians, radiologists, health informatics and cardiovascular technicians.
The programme is globally relevant with jobs available in clinical laboratory, academic research, public health, teaching and the pharmaceutical industry.

According to a statement by the University, the programme will attract over 2,000 students. They will join about 2,000 students studying Science Laboratory Technology and Pre-Degree programmes.
A 1,500-seater lecture theatre has been built on the campus for the programme.
Also, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with an entrepreneur to establish a commercial farm on 400 hectares on the campus.

Four new Professors emerge

The Governing Council of the Ekiti State University has approved the promotion of four Senior Academic Staff to the post of Professors.

Those promoted are: F. A. Olajide now a Professor of Philosophy with effect from 1st of October, 2011, O. R. Adeniyi a Professor of Philosophy with effect from 1st of October, 2008; S. O. Kolawole now a Professor of French with effect from 1st October, 2011 and T. O. Adeyemi a Professor of Education Administration with effect from 1st October, 2012.

EKSU Fires two Staff

The Governing Council of Ekiti State University has sacked two members of the Academic Staff. They are:Dr.(Mrs.) Foluso Florence Akanle and Mr. Joseph Ayodele Owolabi while two other members of staff got their
appointments terminated.
Those whose appointments were terminated are:

Mr. Henry Taiwo Iwarere, whose earlier dismissal was changed to termination by the appeal Committee of the Council. Mr. Ebenezer Foluso Oluwakayode got his earlier termination of appointment affirmed by the same Committee. Mr. Iwarere and Mr. Oluwakayode are from the Accounting Department of the Faculty of Management Science.

Re-Instatement
The Governing Council has re-instated the appointment of Mr. Olugbenga Osekita of the Department of Accounting. This was sequel to the Council’s approval of his appeal against his dismissal from the
University.

Resignation
The Governing Council appeal Committee has upturned the dismissal of Dr. (Mrs) Funmilola Omolola Agbebi of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. She has been asked to resign her appointment. The University is paying her one month salary in lieu of notice according to the decision of Council.

Revision of Academic Calendar

Ogunyemi becomes EKSU Acting Registrar

The Governing Council of Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti has appointed the Director, Council Affairs of the Institution, Mr. Emmanuel Adebisi Ogunyemi, as the Acting Registrar of the University. His appointment takes effect on 1st May, 2014.

This is sequel to the approval of a year terminal leave of the Incumbent Registrar, Dr. Omojola Awosusi by the University Governing Council at its 111th meeting held on Wednesday, 26th March, 2014.

Mr. Ogunyemi obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Ife, (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in 1983 and his Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria in 1997. He obtained his Master of Business Administration at the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria in 2000.

Mr. Ogunyemi had held virtually all Administrative positions in the University since he joined the service of the University on 30th November, 1990 as an Administrative Officer I and Faculty Officer, (Faculty of Science). He rose to the position of Deputy Registrar in 2002.

He became the Registrar of the erstwhile The University of Education Ikere-Ekiti, (TUNEDIK) on 16th May, 2008. He supervised the activities of the erstwhile University, (TUNEDIK) from 7th May to 25th October, 2011 until the decision of the State Government to consolidate the three erstwhile state-owned universities into one.

Mr. Ogunyemi is a member and fellow of many Professional Associations such as the Nigerian Institute of Management (MNIM), Association of Nigerian University Professional Administrators and Fellow, Institute of Public Administration of Nigeria

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Eksu School Fees

The govmt of Ekiti state has finally spoken about the issue of school fees. Rumour has it that the fee will be further increased but the VC said to The Nation newspaper that "EKSU will not increase fees, says VC".
You can read more about this in the Nation newspaper release on April 24th 2014, page 28

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