Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, on Wednesday said that it
would graduate a total of 1, 315 students, with 104 bagging First Class Degree.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Charles Ayo,
said this at a media briefing ahead of the institution’s 10th convocation.
Ayo said that the event was for the award of first and
higher degrees in various disciplines in the institution.
He said that of the 1,315 students, 610 others would be
graduating in the Second Class Upper Division, while 510 will be graduating in
the Second Class Lower Division.
According to him, a total of 91 others would be
graduating in the Third Class Division.
The don said that the institution would also be
graduating a total of 135 postgraduate students during the ceremony.
He said that the number of this year’s first class
graduates was an improvement on the 82 the institution produced at the 2014
convocation.
Ayo said that the institution’s products had found it
easy to pursue further education in Ivy League universities around the world as
a result of the quality of education offered in the university.
“The university’s goal for the 2014/2015 academic session
is innovation, impact and internalisation.
“In order to achieve this goal, the university
established 21 multidisciplinary research clusters that are committed to
proffering solutions to myriad of challenges facing our society.
“One of such innovative research clusters is the
Intergrated Dual-Powered Mobility Engine tagged CU-IDEA, which has to do with
automobile that combines energy from fuel combustion and battery, to supply
traction power to electric motor.
“We have also come up with the Afroscholar Project which
is also fashioned toward taking care of the myriad of problems African-based
academic institutions are faced with which has led to the poor quality rating
of education in the continent.
“The need to address these challenges has necessitated
the development of this project which is also an initiative of Covenant
University that desires to create a viable platform for open and free access to
relevant learning resources that are available within Africa.
“The Afroscholar initiative will among other things,
engender mutual sharing of learning resources and academic collaborations among
key actors in the learning spaces of Africa to raise quality of learning and
scholarship in Africa,” he said.
Ayo said that because the institution wanted to remain a
pacesetter in the provision of quality tertiary education in Africa, plans were
underway to commence its Medical School within two years.
He said that the institution had, during the 2014/2015
academic session, interacted with several institutions within and outside the
country while a number of new Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) were signed.
Ayo, however, noted that others were currently being
processed.
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