{"id":70457,"date":"2019-11-18T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70457"},"modified":"2019-11-18T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:09:05","slug":"reinventing-imo-tertiary-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/reinventing-imo-tertiary-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"REINVENTING\u00a0 \u00a0IMO TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY AUSTIN UGANWA<\/p>\n

Imo State Governor, Rt. Hon Emeka Ihedioha Wednesday, 13 November took a
\ndecisive step towards sanitizing and reinventing the tertiary education
\nsystem in the state. Inside the Sam Mbakwe Expanded Executive Council
\nChamber he inaugurated three distinct but manifestly formidable panels
\nto critically examine the activities and operations of the three major
\ntertiary institutions owned by the state. The schools are: Imo State
\nUniversity, Owerri; Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo and Imo State
\nUniversity Teaching Hospital, Orlu.<\/p>\n

Not a few Imo people perceive this interventionist move by government as
\nan unassailable but timely measure to reform and transform the schools
\nfor enhanced academic outputs. The initiative was inherently audacious
\nand historic for two reasons. One, this was the first time in the
\nhistory of the state that visitation panels would be raised concurrently
\nfor all the\u00a0 \u00a0institutions of higher learning. Two, the top caliber of
\nindividuals that make up the panels, some of whom are not indigenes of
\nthe state. For instance, Professor Chinedu Nebo who heads the Imo State
\nUniversity Visitation Panel is former Minister of Power, former Vice
\nChancellor of University of Nigeria Nsukka and hails from Enugu State.<\/p>\n

In his speech during the inauguration of the panels the governor
\nprovided insight into the reason that stimulated the\u00a0 higher
\ninstitutions enquiry. He submitted: \u201cAt the inception of this
\nadministration, we were inundated with a plethora of complaints on
\neducation sector in the state especially at the tertiary level. And as a
\nresponsive government, we felt that we would be abdicating our
\nobligation to the people, if we do not look into these complaints. For
\nthese reasons, we deemed it necessary to respond to these hues and cries
\nby looking into the operations of these critical institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The terms of reference given to the three panels were the same,
\nunmistakable and penetrating. They included: To identify the strength
\nand problems of the institutions thereby making appropriate
\nrecommendations to the visitor and to\u00a0 ascertain the operations of
\nvarious departments and units. Others are: to look into cases of
\nprocurement and issues bordering on gangs and cultism and to investigate
\nstudents\u2019 complaints on various issues as well as conducting internal
\naudits on institutions\u2019 finances.<\/p>\n

Ihedioha however noted that the ultimate tendency of his government\u00a0 is
\nto rebuild the tertiary\u00a0 institutions\u00a0 in the state\u00a0 towards achieving
\neffective academic governance structure desirable\u00a0 to\u00a0 strengthen the
\neducational services delivery system. \u201cToday, therefore, we are
\ninaugurating the visitation panels to these Imo State flagship
\ninstitutions of higher learning to salvage them from sliding down the
\nprecipice of total collapse\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s mission towards reclaiming the tertiary institutions in
\nthe state is largely understandable and imperative. This is largely
\nbecause of the\u00a0 ruinous nature of the tertiary institutions\u00a0 resulting
\nfrom years of neglect. This development\u00a0 was made worse by the jaded and
\ndeceitful manner the free education was run in the state by the
\nimmediate past administration headed by Owelle Rochas Okorocha.<\/p>\n

To this end, specific scenarios would eloquently, neatly and explicitly
\ndrive the above point home. For instance, the 2018 National Universities
\nCommission rankings of Nigeria Universities, Imo State University was
\nplaced 58 out of 100. It also glided uncharacteristically\u00a0 \u00a0downwards
\nwhen juxtaposed with other state Universities in the country. Sadly too,
\nin the last couple of years, the University has suffered\u00a0 a major
\nsetback in courses accreditation\u00a0 as some of the institution\u2019s
\nprogrammes were de-accredited by the NUC\u00a0 due lack of basic academic
\nfacilities and poor funding. Faculties of Education, Law and College of
\nMedicine have remained the worst hit.<\/p>\n

These realities contrast sharply with the University\u2019s delightful
\nscholarship and academic excellence 10 to 15 years ago shortly before
\nthe past administration made its debut. The University was ranked 1st
\namong all State Universities in Nigeria and the 10th overall among both
\nState and Federal Universities. According to the University\u2019s
\nperformance records posted on its website, which can easily be verified,
\nthe institution scored 100 percent in 2006 and 2007 accreditation
\nvisit, with all programmes visited getting NUC\u2019s authorization. All
\nthe 19 programmes visited in 2007 were fully endorsed. Also, during the
\nNUC accreditation visit of MBA programmes in 2006, Imo State University
\nwas among the few Universities that got the Universities regulatory
\nbody\u2019s nod.<\/p>\n

This flowery situation has regrettably changed for worse in the past few
\nyears of\u00a0 sham free education. Correspondingly, Imo State Polytechnic
\nand the State University Teaching Hospital have been following similar
\nreclining trends arising from lack of basic educational tools and
\nequipment resulting in accreditation challenges. This explained why it
\ntook the Medical College of the University almost ten years to recently
\ngraduate the first set of medical students<\/p>\n

These evidenced-based anomalies hamstringing the tertiary institutions
\nin the state lie at the heart of the move undertaken by Ihedioha-led
\ngovernment to set up visitation panels towards revitalizing the sector.
\nMoreover, this development is in clear fulfillment of the promises made
\nby Ihedioha during his campaigns and his inauguration speech May 29 this
\nyear that he would fix the school system and enthrone qualitative and
\nfunctional education.<\/p>\n

Ihedioha\u2019s action finds further validation in the fact that education
\nis the mainstay of Imo. Consequently, it is incumbent on any responsible
\ngovernment to accord the sector a priority attention. In his keynote
\nspeech at the inauguration lecture\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0that ushered in Ihedioha as Imo
\nGovernor, Chief Nnia Nwodo President-General Ohaneze underscored the
\nfrontline position of Imo in education and the imperative need of
\nstrengthening\u00a0 \u00a0the sector. “Imo State is the most educated state in
\nIgboland, so I\u00a0 canvass here the need for you as the new governor to
\ndemocratize education and change the emphasis to education leveraging on
\ntechnology,” Nwodo stated. He advised Ihedioha to revamp the education
\nsystem by retraining teachers and providing students hands-on skills
\nthat are relevant in the contemporary world<\/p>\n

DR. AUSTIN UGANWA, SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO IMO GOVERNMENT ON
\nDOCUMENTATION WROTE FROM OWERRI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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