Provost of the Kwara State College of Education, Oro, Professor` Aremu Mukaila Ayanda, has urged students who had just left the institution to become members of the Alumni Association to make use of the knowledge they have acquired at the College of Education to impact society.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Professor` Aremu Mukaila Ayanda said this in Oro, Irepodun local government, Kwara State, last week Thursday while giving his speech during the 13th Convocation Ceremony of the institution .
A total of 1,809 students who belong to the 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, and 2023/2024 academic sessions, graduated from the College of Education, 1,792 among them were awarded National Certificate of Education (NCE) while 17 earned Professional Diploma of Education (PDE).
While asking the graduands to be good ambassadors of the College of Education, the Provost also urged them to note that ‘education journey’ has not ended but rather just began.
‘I congratulate all of you, our young graduands of today, on having successfully completed your programmes of studies and on having been adjudged worthy in both character and learning and thus received the NCE and Professional Diploma in Education certificates. I want you to bear it in mind that your parents and the College have jointly invested a lot in you.
I expect you to be good ambassadors of the College, your parents, and the nation. The attainment of a NCE and PDE is not the end of life, but the beginning of a new life of service to your country and to humanity. Those ideas and standards which have been brought to your attention during your period of studentship at the College must now be put into practice’ he said.
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The Provost also noted that former students at the institution ‘have made us proud’ and we receive ‘constant heartwarming reports about them from their employers’ while adding that ‘by the grace of Almighty God, we will be receiving positive reports from you too’.
Professor` Aremu Mukaila Ayanda restated his commitment to his vision statement while urging the stakeholders to support and cooperate with him in this regard.
‘The key points of my vision statement for the college include the followings:
- To enhance the status and ranking of the College above its contemporaries as a focused, efficient, effective and reliable provider of quality professional teachers in Kwara State and Nigeria in general.
- To see my appointment as Provost, as a call to service to humanity to the glory of Almighty God and the benefit of mankind by ensuring a life-changing and life-long training of teachers within the framework of my vision.
- To attain global best practices in all areas of the College viz: governance, academic activities, welfare of workers, student affairs and community relations.
- Uplifting the academic environment of learning, prompt release of student results, timely result processing and graduation.
- To enhance team work particularly with the following stakeholders: Ministry of Tertiary Education; Governing Council; Ministry of Education & Human Capital Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, College Management; Academic Board; Committee of Deans and Directors; Staff, Unions and, Students, etc.
- My funding and revenue drive is to look at the alternative funding measures by initiating high revenue yielding ventures and flexible programmes that will further create jobs.
- Above all, we shall ensure that the needs of our staff are taken care of, and adopt cost minimization policy and financial prudency in line with His Excellency, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Executive Governor of Kwara State’s policy’ he said
The college, he noted, ‘is introducing new programmes to address emerging needs in various fields’ adding that ‘entrepreneur education is a course offered by our students to encourage self-reliance and economic independence after graduation’.
Professor` Aremu Mukaila Ayanda added that an Entrepreneurship Centre that was facilitated by TETfund was established to enhance and train students at the institution on vocational skills based on their interest.
‘At the centre, students take out time to meet with our carefully selected trainers on fashion design, shoe making, tie and dye, catering, bakery, event decorations, hairstyling, poultry farming among others and they will be given certificates after the training’ he submitted while adding that the institution has also brought its inaugural lectures back to life-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
