{"id":28826,"date":"2014-07-06T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=28826"},"modified":"2014-07-06T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:19:01","slug":"uduaghan-deplores-agitations-by-host-communities-to-produce-heads-of-academic-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/uduaghan-deplores-agitations-by-host-communities-to-produce-heads-of-academic-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Uduaghan Deplores Agitations by Host Communities to Produce Heads of Academic Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, weekend, decried what he described as an \u2018ugly trend\u2019 where host communities of academic institutions insist that they produce key management personnel including the headship of such Institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the convocation ceremony of the College of Education, Agbor, at the weekend, the Governor said that it was a worrying development which can only breed incompetence, clannish segregation, crisis and counter-productive to the pursuit of academic excellence in the Institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very dangerous trend for a host community to insist that the head of the Institution must come from the Institution and this must be discouraged\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetence rather than place of origin should remain the determining factor in the appointment of heads of academic institutions in the country, so as not to destroy the ethos of the academic community\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Dr. Uduaghan condemned the attitude of some teachers who stay away from their classrooms noting that while government was tackling the problem of out-of-school syndrome with \u2018Edumarshals\u2019, the teachers were compounding the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He warned that henceforth, teachers found wanting would be sanctioned as the government will not tolerate a situation where its efforts to enhance the standard of education in the state were being frustrated by a group of persons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Governor who is the visitor to the College charged Nigerians to help stamp out cultism in the nation\u2019s academic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, cultism was the root of most social vices plaguing the country and needed to be stamped out in the academic institutions, so as to improve on societal life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In particular, he charged the management of the College of Education and other higher institutions in the state not to award certificates to any confirmed cultist in the institution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cIf you are an identified secret cult member, I insist that you do not get a certificate because a student must be found worthy in learning and character for him or her to receive a certificate as a graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While congratulating the graduands, Dr. Uduaghan urged them to be committed teachers and contribute their quota to the development of the school system as the primary school where they would be\u00a0utilised was the foundation of\u00a0the all-round development of the child.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The governor commended the efficiency of the staff of the College and called for convocation to be held yearly for it to be meaningfully.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hope Eghagha, Commissioner for Higher Education in an address, charged the graduands to be good ambassadors of the College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Acting Provost of the College, Dr. (Mrs.) J. 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Konyeme commended Dr. Uduaghan for the infrastructural and academic progress made in the College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said that over seven thousand students who graduated between 2005 and 2012 were being awarded the National Certificate in Education (NCE) at the convocation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best graduating student, for the 2011\/2012 session, Mr. Stanley Ebinum hailed the commitment of the state government to educational development and appealed for\u00a0jobs for the graduands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, weekend, decried what he described as an \u2018ugly trend\u2019 where host communities of academic institutions insist that they produce key management personnel including the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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