By MUSBAUDEEN SHEKONI

The Director, Avial International Consult Limited, Mrs Bola Agunbiade has stated that vital courses that can contribute to technological leap are either not offered in Nigerian education curricular or lack local technology to have an optimised studying or learning impact.

She disclosed this at Ikeja,  Lagos while marking her second anniversary. According to her, “Technological advancement of our great country will be realised if adequate programmes are structured by the government to mobilise brilliant and beautiful minds to learn these new and evolving technologies in the best places available and adapt them to various fields of endeavour in the country’s technological and business terrain.”

Agunbiade who lamented the deplorable state of the sector, said that due to many factors, Nigeria has not been able to build enough capacity both in content and structure to match the educational needs of students seeking admission into higher institutions yearly which is in excess of one million.

She noted that her passion for students made her organise educational seminars, scholarship evaluations, free admission process and visa counselling from June 26-August 30 to mark Avial’s second anniversary. She explained that most students who seek admission from her consultancy firm into tertiary institutions abroad was due  to frustration in getting admission into Nigerian universities.

Said she; “We will be assisting students who come to the seminar obtain scholarships and tuition reductions to study abroad. We are aware there are academic gurus out there who do not know the way out of their predicament, this is the time to come for free evaluation.”

Agunbiade reiterated her firm’s willingness to also assist students to write impeccable personal statements as this is essential to scholarship applications. According to her, institutions from abroad have been invited to attend to students’ needs and inquiries as well as give spot admissions to qualified students.

Asked what qualified Avial to address these needs, Agunbiade noted that not only is AVAIL a duly registered company in Nigeria, it is saddled with the mandate of recruiting students for universities and colleges in the UK, US and Canada. Moreover, she said, “Avail excelled as the award winner ‘Agent of the year 2012 from NAVITAS – foremost group in students’ recruitment to institutions in UK, USA, Canada and Australia.