In what appears a trail-blazing move, the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, has announced that beginning from its 34th convocation, which begins this week and peaks on Friday, January 31, students will go home with not just their degree certificates but also their transcripts.
This was announced by the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Ayodeji Agboola, on Thursday while addressing the press convocation press conference.
Professor Agboola said the certificates were already signed and would be issued to graduands at the convocation event, together with the transcripts and commemorative plaques.
According to him, a total of 6,209 undergraduates (including 5,793 regular and 416 part-time will convoke for the 2023/24 academic session, while a total of 741 postgraduate students will be conferred with diplomas and degrees, comprising 571 PGD/Masters and 170 PhD.
A total of 115 students will graduate with First Class honours (representing an increase of 16.16 per cent over the total of 99 recorded for the 2022/2023 session.
1,845 will graduate with Second Class honours (upper division); 3044, Second Class (lower division), and 688 with Third Class. 35 graduated with a Pass grade, and 66 (unclassified) will graduate from the medical programme.
The high points of the convocation programme, according to the VC, will be the Convocation Lecture entitled ‘TETFund and Educational Development in Nigeria: the History, the Treasures and the Future’, to be delivered on Friday January 31 by the executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Arch Sunny Echono.
Professor Agboola spoke about the exploits of the university in Artificial Intelligence, which culminated in OOU being crowned the ‘AI School of the Year’ at the 2024 Data Science Nigeria (DSN) annual boot camp, “including a star prize of $1000 worth of books.”
“Two of our lecturers also emerged as joint winners of the inaugural Google Academic Research Awards for 2024. The award included a research grant of $60,000,” he added.
Aisha Aanuoluwapo Dauda from the Department of Economics emerged as the Overall best-graduating student with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.87.
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