VC Advocates Entrepreneur Based Curriculum For All Academic Programmes In Universities
The Vice Chancellor of Kings University, Ode-Omu, Osun State, Prof. Adenike Kuku has advocated that curriculum of all programmes in Nigerian universities be tailored towards entreprenural based learning to facilitate self reliance.
Briefing newsmen on activities to mark the 3rd convocation of the University in Ode-Omu on Wednesday, Prof. Kuku maintained that when students are trained to become entrepreneurs, there would be less dependants on jobs that are not there in government establishments.
The Vice Chancellor disclosed that the University would turn out eighty two graduating students comprising 13 First Class Division, 51 Second Class Upper Division, 16 Second Class Lower Division and 2 Third Class division at the 3rd convocation ceremony fixed for the weekend.
As part of the lined up programmes for the ceremony, Prof. Kuku disclosed that Pastor Ibukun Awosika will deliver the convocation lecture entitled “Sustainability of Tertiary Education: The Interplay Between the Academia and the Corporate World”
Prof. Kuku who said that the COVID-19 pandemic did not in any way affect the academic calendar of the institution because the institution was firmly rooted in IT added that lecturers of the institution also collaborated with their colleagues in other institutions in researches to tackle the menace.
She also again made case for the extension of Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund to private tertiary institutions because students from the institutions are not only entitled to the fund as Nigerians but because the actual fund comes from the proceed from their parent’s sweat.
She urged the private sector to collaborate with private universities in research findings because they will benefit immensely from the outcome.
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