PRESS: Sir to what you have seen today, what are feelings like?
RECTOR: I am happy, elated, and very extreme, at least for the first time, the Governor of Oyo state stepped into the Campus, so it is a nice feeling.
PRESS: As it is now Sir, you are elated and do you think anything positive can still come from his own Government to the school in terms of development?
RECTOR: As what we are witnessing is part of what he has done, you know if you look at the development striate of TOPS, we can say it has a result of autonomy granted to this school by His Excellency, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
PRESS: So Sir, he said something which I picked “we all Citizens need to change our ways”, and from that Sir, is the school also and the Management trying to change their ways to bring a positive change continuously in this school?
RECTOR: If you see inspite of the economy recession, things are still moving here, so that is to tell you that we are trying to sacrifice a lot of things just to make sure that the development going on is not truncated, so we are going to give it all it takes, and of course once you get into the middle of the semester you will see a lot of new programs that will be rolled out that will better the lot of students.
PRESS: And from your own end Sir, and from your team end that is the Management Staff, The Rector, The Bursar, The Registrar, The Chief Librarian, and the Deputy Rector and the likes who are in the Management Team, should we be expecting at least an unbroken academic calendar session again?
RECTOR: Sure you know we have committed Staff, focused Student, and the Management is always willing to maintain that stability, of course maybe you have know or not, before January 2017, your results will be online, so you can access your result online, and for those that have graduated, processing of transcript will be online too, so all these bottle necks and the delays will be taking away at least for TOPS graduate. We started considering your result last week, so in the next 2 weeks we would have perfected everything, then we go online, you just pay a token, then your parent can check results, you also can check, then if you have a complain, you bring it up.
PRESS: Permit me to ask you this, in respect to the regularization fee been paid for last session, some people are yet to be accepted by that functions, that is been regularized, can you say anything on that Sir?
RECTOR: Whether TOPS Student paid, they didn’t believe us, we were trying to tell them that time that if you graduate without regularizing, it will become a personal and individual problem, lets go and do it for you now, but they refused. In fact one of them called me not long ago that their Head of Department said they should not pay. I said ok go and meet your HOD now to bail you out, so anything we are doing here at least this our regime, this our management is in the best interest of student, so trust us, believe us, we are not going to exploit you, we want to give you the best and that is why we are into this, but whatsoever we can do to clear the backlog, we are going to do it.
PRESS: For those who have paid Sir, when should they be expecting feedback and positive result?
RECTOR: We are going to announce the procedure, JAMB has change the procedure, JAMB will no longer accept bulk regularization. It’s going to be individual, so we will give each Department the procedure, you print out the form, I will sign, then we send to JAMB.
PRESS: Sir I will like to ask what are the provision the school is putting in place the poly Ibadan student that studiedt here?
RECTOR: Well, we will just process their result, drop it at Ibadan, all other things will be taking over by Ibadan, so that’s much we can say about that.
PRESS: The Governor talked about stopping of all subvention to Tertiary Institution in Oyo State, what’s your take on this Sir?
RECTOR: Well, we believe, you know we are young anyway, if you look at all the Tertiary Institution in Oyo State, ours is among the youngest, so but we are trusting, because we are trying to keep up with the pace, so that we have unbroken academic calendar, so we still discuss with him here, the management with his excellency, but we know it’s a matter of time, very shortly we will be able to resolve issues.
PRESS: Sir we checked on our portal that the closure of the payment of school fees is on the 16th of this month, how true is that Sir?
RECTOR: We are going to close the portal for now, you know we have delay here and there, we will give more time for the student, but this time around, when we get to January and we say the portal is closing, take us serious, it is going to close once and for all.
PRESS: Sir on the note of the Entrepreneur, that is EED class Sir, we notice, there is a bit increment on the fee and we don’t really know what things that has made it come up to that extent Sir?
RECTOR: Ok let me tell you what we want to do about this Entrepreneurship training, is to really upgrade to a point that you will collect certificate, and if you are collecting certificate, you wont be able to change from one trade to another, so you should be able to stand on your own. I was in Gravity FM last week, one of the student, you know it is a phone in programme, so she called that what she learnt here, she has been using it. So we want to decongest the class, we want to make the practical as it ought to be, so that why, and for us to be able to do that, you know we need to buy the consumables, then since it is attracting certificate now. So these are things we have brought together to have slightly increased it.
PRESS: Before you go sir, can you tell us a little about the next matriculation for the fresher’s Sir?
RECTOR: JAMB disrupted the admission process this year, JAMB change the rules a couple of times, so we are not able to process admission in good time, so that why we have delayed the matriculation. Admission will finally close, for fulltime, admission has closed, for DNP it will be closing late December, so hopefully first week or second week in January, matriculation will take place. And please inform all new students the criterion for matriculation will be payment of school fees.
PRESS: Sir I would like to ask when will the school have their first Convocation?
RECTOR: Because we want to respect Ibadan this year, you know we still have some of our students that graduated as The poly Ibadan student. So next year those who graduated this year will be coming for their graduation, but we will communicate the date anyway, management has not discussed on the date.
PRESS: Thank you Sir.
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