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IAUE Suspends 15 Lecturers Over Sorting
1st Vice Chairman, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Rivers/Bayelsa State branch, Hon. Charles Beke (left), with Chairman, MAN, Rivers/Bayelsa State branch, Mrs. Ekama E. Akpan, during a press briefing on the 30th Annual General Meeting of MAN in Port Harcourt, last Tuesday. Photo: Egberi A. Sampson
The management of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, has suspended 15 lecturers for compromising standards and collecting money from students to award marks to them.
Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Rosemund Green-Osaghulu made the development public during a chat with newsmen shortly after a new board of the institution was inaugurated on Tuesday in Government House, Port Harcourt.
She said the school has tightened its noose on corrupt lecturers in the institution as many have been demoted when once they have been found wanting.
While emphasizing that the school is poised to deliver quality education and discipline among students, Prof Green-Osaghulu maintained the focus of the new management is to make the school a top rated institution in the country.
“We want to maintain high quality; so when you get a staff collecting money to award scores that the student does not merit that staff is either dismissed or suspended,” Prof Green-Osaghulu disclosed.
The Rivers State University of Education Vice Chancellor dismissed claims that the school has hiked its fees explaining that currently fees charged are the lowest in the country, “ We don’t charge school fees but levies if you compare because there was a time there was an outcry and the Niger Delta Students came to verify things for themselves and discovered that we charge the least among universities in Nigeria”.
She added that even in accommodation students pay N7,000 yearly which according to her is small to sustain the running of the school’s three campuses in the state.
Meanwhile, courses offered in the university have all been accredited Prof Green-Osaghulu has said.
She stated that the National Universities Commission (NUC) accredited the 26 programmes offered by the university due to improved infrastructure in the university.
“ In the area of infrastructure and equipment we have many new structures and we are getting more corporate, laboratories, facilities and so currently our school is fully upgraded “, she emphasized.