TASCE partners OOU to offer degree programmes

WORRIED by the drop in students’ enrollment at the Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, the institution’s management says it has concluded plans to affiliate with the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, to offer degree courses.

This was disclosed by the provost of the college, Dr. Lukmon Adeola-Kiadese, in his address at a one-day retreat programme organised for both academic and non-academic staff.

He said the development would boost the standard of the school.

Dr Adeola-Kiadese noted that the repositioning of the college was key to the new management, hence its resolve to take proactive measures in addressing the issue.

Speaking on the theme of the retreat: ‘Global Best Practices in Teacher Education’, the provost said further that the retreat was aimed at increasing the capacity of all staff and also to familiarise them with global best practices in teacher education for optimal performance.

He said: “In order to surmount these challenges, the college, as a proactive institution, has resolved to organise this retreat to prepare for accreditation and partner with the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, for degree affiliation.

“This is with a view to boosting students’ enrolment, increase the college’s internally generated revenue, utilise the abundant human and material resources in the college and look beyond government’s subvention for survival.

“We hope to identify our strength, weakness, opportunities and threats, so that we can re-engineer for optimal performance.”

Also addressing participants at the retreat, the registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Olusegun Ajiboye, urged government at all levels to invest more in the training and retraining of teachers so as to improve the standard of education in the country.

Ajiboye, who spoke on ‘Building a World Class Teacher Training Institution in a Challenging Economy’, insisted that no educational system could rise above the quality of its teachers, saying the quality of teachers would determine the standard of education in any given country.