BY DAYO JOHNSON
AKURE — THE Vice Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Professor Olufemi Mimiko, has vowed to ensure that the institution produces graduates that are globally competitive.

Prof. Mimiko said this while playing host to Participants of Senior Course 33 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji who visited him.

Listing some of the measures adopted to bring about quality graduates, he said these included “merit-driven admission policy, all courses accredited, teaching, examinations and result administration, overall improvement in attendance at lectures.”

Others “are quality of teaching, proctoring; result administration etc, entrepreneurship and general studies  programmes and self-financing centre being reconfigured, consultancy for Internally Generated Revenue, IGR and internal capacity building, among others.”
He added that the university pays utmost attention to research, staff development, staff welfare, student support services.

Prof. Mimiko added that the university management desires to create the best university in Nigeria, a 21st university, properly called, requires so much in funding; expansion of infrastructures; altitudinal change; expanding the room for exposure for both staff and students and impacting more evidently on the host community.