Two delegations from the National Universities Commission[NUC] recently visited Ajayi Crwother University, Oyo, to verify its readiness to mount courses in two new faculties in the University. An eight-member team from the commission was received by the Vice-Chancellor, Rt. Rev. Professor Dapo Asaju, to the institution. The team came to the campus in Oyo, for a facility visit aimed at ensuring that the University was ready to mount courses in Mechanical, Electrical/Electronics and Computer Engineering courses in the University.
While receiving the team, Professor Ajaju told them that the University has put everything in place to ensure that the courses come on stream as soon as the NUC gives a nod of approval. The institution had, before arrival of the team attracted a team of experts in the field of Engineering as lecturers in the afore-mentioned courses including the retired Archbishop of Lagos Province and Bishop of Lagos Mainland diocese of the Church of Nigeria[Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Professor Adebayo Akinde, a well-known expert in Computer Engineering.
Those courses are part of the numerous infrastructural and academic developments that has happened in the University as part of the scorecard of Asaju’s tenure as third Vice-Chancellor of the University.
The University is also set to mount programmes in another new Faculty, of Environmental Studies. The programmes are Architecture and Estate Management, for which teams from the National Universities Commission have also come to verity the University’s readiness to mount those programmes .
At the end of the visit the two teams noted that they were largely satisfied with what the institution has done in readiness for the commencement of programmes in the Faculties of Environmental Studies and Engineering.
The Vice-Chancellor said the move to mount those new courses became necessary in order to introduce professional courses in the school and give prospective students of the institution a wider spectrum of programmes.
