FUOYE signs MoU with Ilaro Poly on liberal education essay competition

THE Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, on liberal education.

The academic collaboration covers FUOYE’ s approval of  faculties of Engineering, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Agriculture  for affiliation and award of its bachelor’s degrees to students of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, while all the programmes in each of these faculties would be available for interested students to update their knowledge.

The vice chancellor of FUOYE, Professor Kayode Soremekun, noted that unwholesome system of education is one of the factors responsible for some of the challenges in tertiary institutions.

“To this end, FUOYE is taking steps to address some of these changes through partnership and affiliate programmes in order to bring about meaningful change in the sector,” he said.

At the signing of the MoU in Oye Ekiti with a delegation from the Ilaro Polytechnic led by the rector, Dr Olusegun Aluko, Professor Soremekun explained that the agreement between the two institutions was established to offer liberal education to FUOYE students and Ilaro to augment their areas of deficiency.

He said the development would offer polytechnic students who are willing to upgrade themselves opportunity to acquire further knowledge in different fields of study as well as upgrade their status from Higher National Diploma (HND) to bachelor’s degree.

Responding, the Director of Conversion and Affiliation, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro Ogun State, Dr. Raheem Oloyo, appreciated FUOYE’s management for the privilege to give a facelift to the system of education in both institutions through partnership.

Dr Oloyo expressed the need to embrace electronic methods of records keeping to ensure easy access to students’ results, transcripts and other academic achievements in both schools.