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  • OSPOLY lauds Aregbesola on MoU

    Management of the Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Osun State, has praised the Osun State Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregesola for creating an enabling environment for the polytechnic to access international opportunities which have yielded positive developments in the institution.

    Rector of the Institution, Dr Jacob Olusola Agboola said this on Monday, while playing host to a volunteer from United States Agency for International Developnment (USAID) and Winrock International, Mr Brian Doyle, who was in OSPOLY to help with the re-organisation of the institution’s library as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the agency on agricultural education and farmer-to-famer programmes initiated by the polytechnic.

    Said Agboola: ”The state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has created enabling environment for our institution to be rated as the sixth best polytechnics in Nigeria out of over 100 polytechnics nationwide.

    We are now on a journey towards being the first in the country. We are blessed with the state of the arts equipment, facilities and seasoned academics. All these are achievable with the assistance of the governor.”

    Doyle, who is currently in the institution to improve students and workers skills, counseled the authorities of the polytechnic to re-package the library using e-learning.

    The polytechnic recently hosted officials of USAID/Winrock International for a workshop and facility assessment on agricultural education, which facilitated the approval for the take-off of Agricultural Engineering and Bio-Environmental Studies in the institution by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).

     

  • OSPOLY gets ‘Yoruba best Poly’ award

    OSPOLY gets ‘Yoruba best Poly’ award

    The Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree in Osun State has been awarded the 2014 “Yoruba Best Polytechnic of the Year’ courtesy of a group, the Yoruba Redemption Foundation (YOREF).

    The award was conferred on the institution for promoting the Yoruba culture and tradition and inspiring educational development.

    The group, made up of eminent Yoruba leaders and movie makers, presented the award at a programme hosted by the institution.

    “Osun State Polytechnic, Iree in the recent time has been playing leadership roles in the promotion of Yoruba culture. This is inherent in the moral values of students of this institution. We have observed thoroughly on this campus, students’ dress code, their characters and relationship with one another. It promotes the concept of omoluabi virtues which a Yoruba community must possess”, said the chairman of the organising committee, Chief Asiwaju Temidayo Ayodele.

    Ayodele continued: “Certificates are awarded in character and excellence, the polytechnic has really groomed its products in characters and this has made products of the institution models for their peers in other institutions”.

    He added that the institution’s fusion of moral rehabilitation with academics is a feat many institutions in the country are still trying to attain and described the Rector, Dr. Olusola Agboola, as an embodiment of morals.

    Chairman of the occasion, and ace Yoruba actor, Chief Peter Fatomilola, lamented the burgeoning anti-social behaviours among the youth, attributing the development to the disregard for Yoruba values.

    “Priority has been given to the foreign culture at the expense of our indigenous language, tradition,” he said.

    He said that moral values abound in Yoruba oral literatures such as proverbs, Idioms and literary appreciation, among others.

    Responding to the award, the Rector said the moral stance of the institution is attributed to the encouragement received from the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni, Rauf Aregbesola, who is a culture activist.

    “The governor charged all stakeholders in the state to join hands with him in building an enviable state characterised by virtues of Omoluabi. He encourages promotion of culture and tradition, which he recognises as veritable ingredients of Omoluabi virtues,” he said.

     

     

     

  • 20,000 graduate at OSPOLY

    Twenty thousand students of the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree yesterday graduated.

    The graduands belonged to the 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 sets.

    The Rector, Dr. Jacob Agboola, said 36 programmes of the institution, cutting across both National and Higher National Diploma levels, had been fully accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and other relevant professional bodies.

    He said the institution’s efforts to complement the state government’s vision of vocational and technical training has yielded positive results as the poytechnic would soon begin courses in Arts and Design and Tourism Management at the National Diploma level.

    Agboola said the institution had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sussex University in England on an exchange programme, adding that many students of the polytechnic have benefited from the programme.

    He said an MoU was signed with the Pinnacle College in Britain to enable graduates of the institution convert their diplomas to Bachelor’s degree.

    Agboola said the graduating students have been exposed to the reality of life with the quality of education they received at the polytechnic.

    He said: “Our policy is to make our products self-reliant and competitive. Hence, our students are exposed to global best practices in vocational and entrepreneurship education. In implementing this, we are aware that we need personnel, especially in entrepreneurship studies.

    “Indeed, the six point integral Action Plan of this government has made the provision of functional education, which is a cardinal objective of this administration, more achievable. I therefore, thank Mr. Governor for providing enabling environment for tertiary education to thrive in Osun State.”

  • OSPOLY holds convocation

    The Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, will hold its 4th Combined Convocation on Thursday at the institution’s Sports Pavilion at 10am. The ceremony is for the 2007/2008, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, and 2011/2012 sets.

    A Convocation Lecture, titled: “Technology and Entrepreneurship for National Development”, will be delivered tomorrow by the Secretary-General, Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA), Dr. Olubunmi Owoso, at 11am at the school’s auditorium. Managing Director, Bank of Industry (BoI), Mrs. Evelyn Oputu, will chair the lecture.

    Activities for the convocation begin today with a media tour of the institution’s facilities. The Rector, Dr. Jacob Olusola Agboola, will address reporters at 10am at the institution’s Academic Board Complex.

  • OSPOLY holds convocation

    The Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, will hold its Fourth Convocation on December 12. The ceremony, which will begin at 10am at the school’s sports pavilion, is for the 2007/2008, 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 sets.

    A convocation lecture, titled: “Technology and entrepreneurship for national development”, will hold on December 11 at 11am at the school’s auditorium. It will be delivered by the Secretary-General, Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA), Dr. Olubunmi Owoso.

    Managing Director, Bank of Industry (BoI), Mrs. Evelyn Oputu will chair the lecture.

    On December 10, there will be a media tour of the institution’s facilities and the Rector, Dr. Jacob Agboola, will address reporters at the institution’s Academic Board Complex at 10am.

    The graduands are expected to collect their convocation materials, including academic gowns and invitation cards, from their respective faculty officers from Monday to Wednesday between 8am and 4pm on presentation of receipts for the payment of N5,000.

    Dignitaries expected at the convocation include Governor Rauf Aregbesola; his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori; and the Chairman of the institution’s Governing Council, Mrs. Joan Maduka, among others.

  • SUG leaders trained on leadership

    Members of the Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree, Osun State, have visited Lagos to learn rudiment of leadership. The three-day leadership training programme and tours was organised by a Lagos-based consultancy firm, Kasa Management Consultancy Services, in Badagry area of Lagos State.

    The programme with the theme: Shaping proactive leaders for the next generation featured Mr Bola Disu, Registrar of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) as speaker. He urged the students to dream big and give meaning to their aspirations.

    Disu, who is a lawyer by training, said success only court people that worked hard to actualise their dreams.

    He said: “You must believe in yourself, and in your dreams. You do not necessarily need the whole world to endorse your dreams. They are your dreams, not the world’s. Great innovations, earth-shaking ideas, global brands and many other revolutionary achievements are not communal or democratic. They are personal issues based on self-conviction and unflinching courage.”

    Mr Disu said world brands such as Bill Gates of and Hudson Wrights brothers were individuals who dreamed big and went ahead to give meaning to their dreams.

    He urged the students’ leaders to believe in themselves, “even when nobody perceives you as being serious”.

    Another speaker, Mrs Olayinka Adeyemi, Deputy Director, Office of the Public Defenders, Lagos State, took the students on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism.

    In her paper entitled: Application of conflict management tools in constructive engagement and student-related disputes, Adeyemi listed some causes of students’ unrest in higher institutions to include inadequate facilities, shortage of lecture materials and hostel accommodation, irregular power supply and water shortage among others.

    Through ADR mechanism, all the challenges could be resolved without violence, Adeyemi said.

    “There are various ways of managing and resolving conflicts. ADR and other intervention methods are in widespread demand and use,” she said, adding: “ADR is often used to describe a wide variety of dispute resolution processes that are short of, or alternative to full-scale court processes.”

    She said the conflict resolution mechanism saved time, money and increase control over the process and the outcome, preserving relationships. She urged the students to embrace the mechanism in crisis resolution and management instead of confrontation.

    In a paper titled Developing your entrepreneurship potentials as students’ leaders, Mr Kolawole Asa, a Management Consultant, tutored participants on entrepreneurship. Asa gave some tips to create and develop business ideas, saying that the society expected youths to take charge of their lives and become successful.

    After the workshop session, the students visited historic sites in Badagry, including the Whispering Palm Resort.

    Folorunso Samuel, one of the participants, said: “The training has totally widened my knowledge on leadership.” Another participant, Adewale Salawudeen, said: “We commend the management of Osun State Polytechnic and the consultants for organising this powerful and wonderful training.”