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Kwara gov urged to upgrade College of Education to university

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has been called upon to upgrade the state – owned College of Education, Ilorin to a degree awarding institution. The Acting Provost of the College, Dr. Jimoh Ahmed Ayinla, said the institution, which is the oldest stateowned College of Education in the country, is ripe for transformation into a university. Ayinla, who was fielding questions from journalists in Ilorin, the state capital, said the College, which has over the years been running degree programmes in affiliation with the Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti, has all it takes to become a degree awarding institution.

“We have three colleges of education in Kwara state. In our request to the governor and the commissioner for Tertiary Education, we said we want the college, being the first among equals in Nigeria and one of the first colleges of education in the country and in fact, the first state government owned college of education in Nigeria to be upgraded to a degree awarding institution.

“We want the present government to do that to immortalize the administration, just like Governor Mohammed Lawal did to the Kwara state Polytechnic so that we will be awarding BSc in Education, while those two in Oro and Lafiagi can continue with the NCE programmes. “I, hereby, appeal to the governor to make it work. By the time we are upgraded, we will no longer continue to serve as any burden to government because we have our projections. We’ve done the feasibility studies. With the number of students that would be generated in the first one year, we would be able to stand well financially and the government subvention may only be for the starting period,” the provost stated. Ayinla, who said that 11 persons vied for position of the school’s Provost, added that six among the candidates were shortlisted while three were recommended to the governor for the appointment.

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