He also spoke of his plan to seek new approach which would shore up the internally Generated revenue( IGR ) in order to tackle the financial crisis in the state owned varsity .
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti, the VC said ,“When I was in USTI, I signed Memorandum of Understanding with Kywuyang University in South Korea for the training of about 30 students from 300 level particularly in degrees that requires the use of modern laboratories.”
According to him,the university would convoke a summit IGR with intention to make every Faculty a viable revenue generating sources to make up for the dwindling funds accruing to the institution.
Speaking about poor attitude of students to the payment of school
fees, Bandele , who resumes office December 1, following the
expiration of his predecessor’s tenure, Prof Oladipo Aina, said the
nonchalant attitude to payment could frustrate his efforts in the
provision of infrastructures and welfare packages .
He said the university is compiling data of students owing the
university and that appropriate steps would be taken from December 20
against those that are indebted to the university.
The Professor of Educational Evaluation, added that the management
has started the construction of hostels on campus to provide
accommodation, so that all the students could be resident on campus,
saying 10,000 students are being targeted under this policy.
Prof Bandele stated that the university would also build principal
officers’ quarters on campus, where himself , his deputies , Registrar
and other management staff would reside for proper monitoring of the
students, while affordable housing units will be provided for other
staff.
The former Vice Chancellor of the scrapped University of Science and
Technology, Ifaki Ekiti and The Ekiti State University of Education,
said the university is setting machinery in motion for the
exploration of business ventures like bakery, block industry , sachet
water business, farming etc , to shore up the Internally Generated
Revenue of the institution in view of the dwindling allocation to the
State.
The scholar promised to build on the legacy left behind by his
predecessor, Prof. Oladipo Aina in infrastructural development through
public –private partnership initiative and by fully tapping into the
Tertiary Education Trust Fund, a federal government special
intervention.
“Where also collaborating with the university for the construction of
a Central Laboratory where people can carry out research . This is
of no cost to the university. The dream could have been realized when
I was in USTI , but was aborted because the last administration
merged the institution with EKSU.
“But now that I have come on board, I am going revalidate all these
MoUs to build EKSU to a globally competitive university. My mission
and vision for EKSU is to make it one of the best not only in Nigeria
but in the world. I want to increase our ranking on Webometric and NUC
ratings”, he said.
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