Teaching and learning must be capacity enhanced by providing the
necessary facilities and equipments in terms of ICT-enabled lecture
theatres, classrooms, workshops. The lecturers must be provided with
opportunities to improve themselves to cope with the needs of current
developments in their areas.
Prof. Adebisi Balogun Former Vice Chancellor Federal University of
Technology Akure (FUTA) stated this while delivering a seminar lecture
series on "Capacity Building and Sustainable Academic Culture in
Higher Education Institutions" at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo 2nd
Polytechnic Seminar/Lecture held last week Thursday at the 800 Seater
Auditorium.
He said Capacity building is one of the leading issues in the
development of Higher Education Institutions in developing countries
it involves skill upgrading, procedural improvement and organizational
strengthening.
"Priority attention must be given to students because I believe as
teachers we are here because they are there. Without them Higher
Education Institutions will just be a glorified research institute. So
right from the time they are admitted, they must be fully integrated
into the system and capacity enhanced to make them understand that the
institution is their property and it belongs to them and they own the
institution" he said.
Prof. Balogun, who said through appropriate orientation programs
organized by the students Affairs Division, they must be tutored and
gotten assimilated into the vision and mission of the institution.
They must be exposed to rudiments of good and responsible citizenship,
their expectation after graduation and what the nation expects of them
after graduation.
Facilities must be available for their academic, social and religious
well-being while in the institution must be introduced to them. They
must be made to understand the academic culture that governs their
stay in the institution.
While identifying the Objectives of Higher Education Institutions,
Prof. Balogun stated that Teaching, Research and providing community
service through appropriate organs and instrumentalities of the
institution to reach out to nearer and wider communities to solve
their problems, which through theses should be a relationship of
symbiotically benefits.
He further said that the conditions provided for promotion and
engagement of lecturers at the Principal and the Chief levels would
not provide adequate opportunities for mentorship, motivation,
creativity and innovation to reflect the vision of the institution.
There is also need to bring in new blood for sustainable health of the
programs in the institution.
Also Speaking at the event The Rector, Prof. Ajibefun Igbekele who was
highly delighted said the decision to organize the Lecture was taken
by Management while devising means of initiating academic culture in
the Institution. He thanked the Visitor to the Institution has been
particularly kind in approving the release of the enormous resources
required to give the polytechnic its current enviable academic image.
We staged the event to show our seriousness about academic culture,
must of what was discussed have been on ground but the result can't be
seen now but within the next one year we will all see the outcome of
it. With the lecture we know that our academic staff will be exposed
to more information and enlightenment to know that academic culture is
important.
We want it to be a continuous package to enhance the intellectual
mindset of the member of staff in the polytechnic.
Earlier, the Governing Board chairman of the institution, Dr. Laoye
Adegoke, said the lecture series will develop the institution with
updated information which will be very useful to the school community
and well of life on campus.
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