The vice Chancellor of Lead City University Ibadan Professor Kabiru Adeyemo has said that the privately owned institution is committed to academic excellence.
He said apart from putting in place a quality control mechanism to check the students performances, Adeyemo said Lead City University students must meet up with the required academic qualifications and others before being certified.
Speaking at a Breakfast Meeting with South West Group of Online Publishers, SWEGOP in Ibadan, Professor Adeyemo said, ‘There is a Quality Assurance Unit that monitors teaching to ensure that lectures and tutorials hold as at when due. Co-teaching is also encouraged, at least two lecturers are assigned to teach a course to ensure quality.”
On Students discipline, The VC Said cultism is something that is pervading in all academoc institution but at LCU we don’t tolerate any form of indiscipline and any student found wanting in this regard faces music immediately.
“Some students that were found to have committed one act of misconduct or the other or that have violated their matriculation oaths were given various forms of disciplinary measures, ranging from outright expulsion, suspension for varying periods of time, fines, warning and reprimand.
” I wish to state that in all disciplinary cases involving students, they were always given fair hearing before the matters is been referred to the Students Disciplinary Committee, which critically looked into the allegations and make appropriate recommendations to the Management. The decisions of Management on each case were then forwarded to the University Council for approval before conveying such decision to the concerned students.’
Professor Adeyemo also said the Lead City University is a good academic stead, noting that in 2021 alone, it recruited 68 new full teaching staff, while 183 other lecturers were contracted on adjunct and visiting basis to strengthen the existing full-time staff capacity.
Specifically, the university administrator said among the new 68 new teaching staff are four full professors, five associate professors and seven senior lecturers.
Professor Adeyemo added that 45 others, including Graduate Assistants to Lecturers I were also employed, while two expatriate academics were recruited from the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia, respectively.
“In the Administrative and Technical Staff cadre, 46 new members of staff were appointed. 20 new staff were recruited for the University Hospital, comprising of three new medical doctors, one additional pharmacist, eight nurses, six medical laboratory staff, a dental technician and other categories of staff.
“This is to strengthen our resolve to provide quality and adequate healthcare services dispensed by competent and experienced healthcare providers for our students and staff,” he added.
In Lead City University, Professor Adeyemo said, both teaching and non-teaching staff were elevated to higher positions, in order to encourage and generally motivate them.
“In the academic staff cadre, a total of 105 staff members received promotion to higher positions. These include two full professors, seven associate professors, nine senior lecturers, 47 Lecturers I and 32 Lecturers II.
“Five Graduate Assistants were also elevated to Assistant Lecturer positions, while three Librarians I got promoted to Senior Librarians.
“In the non-teaching cadre, many deserving members of staff got elevation to higher positions. It is worthy of mention that every member of staff in the university, without exception in both teaching and non-teaching cadres, received fat salary increment.
“It is also worthy of mention that the university has created its own salary scales for both teaching and non-teaching staff which is far higher than the salary scales in use in most Nigerian public universities,” Adeyemo said.
