24th June, 2015
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.