By Dave Ukah
A total of 20 students would be graduating with first class at the 6th Convocation ceremony of Alex Ekweme
Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) scheduled to hold from December 7th -13th, 2021.
The Vice Chancellor of the University Professor Sunday Elom disclosed this during Pre- convocation Press conference to intimate the Press on the activities lined up for the ceremony.
He stated that a total of 306 students finished in the second class Upper division while 494 are in the second class Lower division. In the third class division, there are 79 students while one person is graduating with Pass degree. According to him, 900 graduands in 10 faculties will be turned out.
The convocation lecture titled “Cost-sharing in Funding University Education in Nigeria.” will be delivered by Emeritus Professor Onyechi Obidoa while the event will be chaired by Professor Charles Chike Onochie, former Vice-Chancellor, Renaissance University, Ugbawka, Enugu State.
“Before the convocation proper, on Monday, 13th December 2021, there will be a convocation lecture titled “Cost-sharing in Funding University Education in Nigeria.”
“Also, as part of the programme of activities for the 6th convocation ceremony, on Thursday, 9th December 2021, 68 pioneer graduating students of our Faculty of Education will be inducted into the teaching profession by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).
“On Tuesday, 7th December 2021, there will be research fair/arts exhibition, where the university scholars and researchers will showcase their works and innovations to the public,” the vice-chancellor said.
Explaining the progress so far made by the university, the vice chancellor said that 10 academic staff of the university from various faculties have secured research grants for the institution worth N3.4bn locally and internationally for 2021.
“Our academic staff are doing well in the area of securing research grants. In this year 2021, ten academic staff from the various faculties obtained research grants locally and internationally amounting to a total of 3.4BN,”
He described the achievements as a testimony that the academic staff of the university were doing well.
He further said, “A leading global ranking body based in Turkey, AD Scientific Index, ranked AE-FUNAI 32 out of 167 universities in Nigeria on the quality of scientists in 2021.”
"The July 2021 edition of Webometric World University ranking, AE-FUNAI ranked 50 out of 279 tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Also in the African Continent, AE-FUNAI was ranked 279 out of 1,952 Institutions. Globally AE-FUNAI ranked 6,006 out of 11,987 institutions in 2021.”
The Vice Chancellor however, said in sustaining the culture of keeping to the academic calendar, AE-FUNAI was the only public university in Nigeria that mobilised students for NYSC in the batch B 2019/2020 academic session.
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