Babcock University, British Council train students on digital skills

Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo  Ogun State has partnered the British Council Nigeria and two other organisations to train students under the Centre for Open Distance and e-Learning of the institution on various digital skills.

They were trained in areas such as web design, 3D animation, graphic design, full stack development, network security and advanced data analysis among others.

The director of the Centre, Professor Mobolanle Sotunsa, who revealed this in a statement, said the centre received a training grant from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) last year to carry out the training.

She said the centre had trained no fewer than 100 learners in less than three years of securing approval from the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) to run MBA and B.Sc programmes.

According to her, these learners are currently pursuing B.Sc programmes at different levels in Accounting, Computer Science as well as in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programmes.

The don further said there is groundwork for course materials and resources in the 10 new undergraduate courses including Nursing (Direct Entry for licensed Nurses) among others this year.

She noted that BUCODel’s journey from 2021 till date reflected achievements in educational expansion, increased enrolment with noteworthy contribution in ODel space in Nigeria.