11-man FG committee to kickstart upgrade of Adeyemi College to university in Ondo

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The Federal Government has dispatched 11-man University Needs Assessment Team to kickstart the processes towards upgrading Adeyemi College of Education to a full-fledged university in Ondo State.

The move is in line with the final take-off of College as a university more than a year after former President Muhammadu Buhari signed the act, upgrading the nearly 60-year-old institution to Adeyemi University of Education, Ondo.

The 11-man committee is drawn from the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), National Universities Commission (NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

Part of the final process was the constitution of University Transition Committeee headed by Dr. Abayomi Olajuyigbe.

A statement by the Director, Information and Public Relations of the college, Mrs. Oluseto Olatayo, said the team led by Mrs. Raskiat Ilyasu, Director, University Education FME, held strategic meetings with management of the college and consultations with other critical stakeholders, after which the team embarked on an on-the-spot tour of facilities in the institution which among other findings, is expected to guide its report on the other essential needs of the school to fully transmute to a university.

The team leader, who allayed the fear of loss of job by any member of staff as a result of the exercise, said, “whatever we are doing today is just an exercise for documentation to show that this institution was upgraded, and this is what we met on ground, and here are the gaps to be filled, so that they can fulfil that engagement to the next level they are supposed to be. We are not here to screen anybody out, the screening will come later, but what we need to do is to see what is on ground, so that we can know where the gaps are for better take-off of the university.”

The Provost, Dr. Samuel Akintunde, commended the Federal Government for “living up to expectations of the people with regards to upgrading the institution, now demonstrated by dispatching this high level and strategically representative team led by Mrs. Ilyasu, to give action to the elevation which started with the signing of the act early last year.”