IAUOE Matriculates 1,396 Students

A total of 1,396 students have been offered provisional admission to study various courses at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the 2013/2014 academic session.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Rosemund Dienye Green-Osaghogulu disclosed this during this year’s matriculation held at the university’s convocation arena, Rumuolumeni campus , Wednesday.
Giving the breakdown of the admission, the vice chancellor said Faculty of Business Studies has 352 students, Social Science, 331, Humanities, 259, Natural and Applied Sciences, 256, Education, 135 while Vocational and Technical Education has 63 students.
According to her, “ In Nigeria today, eligibility for university matriculation is based on preconditions defined by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Universities Commission (NUC), adding that JAMB prescribes the minimum entry qualifications for the various university educational programmes, develops the subject-specific matriculation examination, grades candidates’ response on the criterion of performance profile relative to an agreed session-specific national cutting score and makes admission recommendations for universities.
She lauded the students for choosing the institution, adding that all the programmes run by the university have been accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
She averred that the university undergraduate level education is usually targeted at growing and developing the recipients into citizens who constitute the sector-specific labour force to work for the sustained sector-based development of their society.
The vice chancellor announced that ban on the sale of handouts or unpublished course notes in the school was still in force, and urged the students to refuse to pay for handouts and report any lecturer who attempts to flaunt the order.
She further charged the students to shun indecent dressing, cultism, fighting, examination malpractices and other anti-social activities, adding that any one caught will be sanctioned.
She thanked the state government for upgrading the university from a college of education as well as staff appointments, sustained remuneration, infrastructural development and improving security in the university and the state at large.
The climax of the event was the administering the university’s oath and pledge to the students by the vice chancellor.