Unilorin Classrooms To Get Smart Boards Soon– Vice-Chancellor - Educatio

All classrooms in the University of
Ilorin will soon be equipped with
the latest smart boards in line with
global best practices to ensure
effective teaching.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof.
AbdulGaniyu Ambali, revealed this
last Tuesday (September 25, 2013)
during a meeting with members of a
National University Commission
(NUC) team that visited the
University on resource verification
exercise.
“All classrooms shall be ICT
compliant. Smart boards and latest
classroom technology shall be put in
place. You will see a new Unilorin in
terms of teaching facilities”, the Vice-
Chancellor disclosed.
The NUC team was in the University
to verify resources put in place for
by the University for the take-off of
newly established Faculties,
Departments and splitting of some
existing Faculties. The new
Departments include: Department of
Architecture, Department of Quantity
Surveying, Department of Urban and
Regional Planning, Department of
Water Resources Engineering,
Department of Marketing,
Department of Surveying and Geo-
Informatics, Department of
Psychology and Department of Social
work.
Others are: Department of
Agriculture Education, Department of
Business Studies, Department of
Igbo and Department of Hausa.
The proposed Faculties are Faculty
of Social Sciences, Faculty of
Management Sciences, Faculty of
Environmental Sciences. Also, the
Department of Arts and Social
Sciences Education is to be split into
two, the Department of Arts
Education and Department of Social
Science Education while the
Department of Educational
Technology is to be excised from the
present Department of Science
Education
Prof. Ambali thanked members of
the resource verification team, led
by Mr. Sam Ukani, and assured them
that the University takes their
comment seriously, adding that their
observations would be implemented
to the letter.
The Vice-Chancellor said, “Your
words have been encouraging to us.
We shall beef up areas that are
inadequate. We shall aggressively
pursue and recruit more staff.
Offices and laboratories for new
departments shall be sorted out
before December.”
Prof. Ambali further thanked the
team for what he called their
“objective observations and
compliments”, noting that “this is
line with observations made by
previous high calibre visitors to the
University including members of the
Senate and House of
Representatives Committees on
Education.”
The Vice-Chancellor also expressed
happiness that the resource
verification team agreed with the
University management on the need
to introduce new programmes and
split some existing ones.
Briefing the University management
earlier, the team leader, Mr. Ukani,
said that having gone round the
facilities put in place in preparation
for the take-off of the proposed
programmes, members of the team
were “very impressed with what we
have seen.”
He stressed that the Library is up-to-
date and that the e-library is one of
the best in the country with
subscriptions to relevant journals.
The team leader also observed that
the University staff are highly
dedicated, motivated and interactive,
stressing that the new programmes
are well prepared for take-off.
Earlier during a courtesy call on the
Vice-Chancellor in his office, Mr.
Ukani disclosed that the NUC had
constituted four resource
assessment teams to ascertain the
University's readiness to start the
new programmes that have been
requested.
He explained that being a quality
assurance regulatory body, the NUC
was bent on ascertaining that all
academic programmes should be
started on a good platform.
The team leader however stated that
the team is a partner in progress
and not one on a mission to pull the
University down.
Other members of the resource
verification team on the visit were:
Prof. S. Mustafa, Prof. M. Karaje, Mr.
Idris Ibrahim, Prof. B. M. Ndoni,
Prof. James B. Olaleye, Prof. Oyaziwo
Aluede and Prof. Gray Goziem
Ejikeme.
Others were: Prof. Timothy C.
Mogbo, Prof. A. O. Olotuah, Prof.
Obina Enukolia, Mrs. Justina
Emerole, Mr. Adamu Mohammed,
Mr. Theophilus Ogbor and Prof.
Theresa O. Odumuh.
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