Education
RIVCAS Rusticates 35 Students
The Rivers State Col
lege of Arts and Science (RIVCAS) yesterday matriculated a total of 3,052 students in 2014/2015 academic session into 24 Departments at the school’s 24th matriculation ceremony, which took place in the school’s Conference Hall.
Of the number, Business Administration recorded the highest number of intakes with 385 students, followed by Law, which had 350 students, while the Institute of Continuing Education had 320 students.
Science and Laboratory Technology came 4th with 265 students, Public Administration had 200 students and Mass Communication, 186 students.
Other Departments are: Accountancy (154), Computer Science (141); Office Technology and Management (108), Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology (106) Interim Joint Matriculation Board Examination (100), and Computer Engineering Technology (94).
It also includes Marketing (92), Higher National Diploma (87), Cambridge University A/Level GCE (66), Agricultural Technology (54), Banking and Finance (52), Remedial (49), Architectural Technology (45), Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Building Technology (40 each), Library and Information Science (33), and statistics (26).
In his speech, the Rector of the College, Dr Hillary Wordu, noted that the 2015 admissions constitutes a 27 per cent increase from the 2014 admissions, which was a total of 2,407 students.
According to him, the improvement is not only in quantity but as well as in quality of students.
While charging the new students to take their studies and counsels in the school serious, he informed the students that the college “has strict rules guiding examinations, the breach of which is visited with portentous consequences.”
He buttressed this by also informing the students that “just three weeks ago, 35 students were rusticated and two expelled for various degrees of examination malpractices.”
Explaining the types of examination malpractices indulged in by the students, in a post matriculation exclusive interview, the school’s Registrar, Dame Geogenia O. Benwoke, said it includes what she called “the normal examination malpractice by students.
She told The Tide that, “we found them with what they call micro chips, papers, and they were also found having consultations with their fellow students in the examination hall.”
The Registrar, however, commended the Rivers State Government for providing necessary amenities to enhance academic success in the institution.
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The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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