Kikelomo Ifekoya
The Due Process entrenched in the admission process into the Nigerian Universities has started yielding positive results judging from the good quality of students being produced by most Public Universities in the country in recent times.
The Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello joined her voice to this assertion by some notable education stakeholders while addressing Newsmen at the University’s main campus in Ojo, Lagos.
Giving account of the high number of students that had graduated with first class honors from the school in the last four years, Prof. Olatunji- Bello adduced the positive record partly to the commendable process guiding the admission of candidates into public tertiary institutions in the country which laid emphasis on merit.
She explained that in the Lagos State University for example, it is only those that had fulfilled the necessary requirements right from sitting the Senior School Certificate Examination and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination among other criteria that were offered admission in the university in line with the federal government’s admission policy.
She stressed that this had not only helped tertiary institutions to admit only excellent students that were cut out for serious academic pursuit and not unserious ones that were in school for the fun of it, but had assisted public Universities to produce more quality graduates.
Citing the performance of the 2023-2024 graduating students of the Lagos State University for example, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji- Bello said out of the Eight Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eleven students graduating under the first degree programmes , One Hundred and Ninety- two of them came out with First Class honours.
She stressed that this would not have been achieved if the brilliant and qualified candidates were not offered admission in the first place.
Prof. Olatunji- Bello also thanked the Federal Ministry of Education for constructing a Two Thousand Sitting Capacity Computer Based Test Centre for the Lagos State University which she said would go a long way in assisting the university in conducting seamless Computer Based Examinations for the students.
Prof. Olatunji-Bello also mentioned that the construction of a new Faculty of Arts Building and an Academic Resource and Conference Center were provided for the University under Tetfund intervention in the last one year.