EBSCOI Provost Appeals To Govt, Individuals To Offer Scholarship To Students
Abah Joshua
The Provost, Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo, Professor Benedict Mbam has called on Ebonyi State Government and private individuals to offer scholarship to interested staudents willing to study in the institution.
The provost made the call during a media chat with journalists in his office in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Mbam, who disclosed that the management of the institution had set up enrollment/ admission committee to work towards imporoved enrollment, regretted that some departments in the institution were without students.
He added the the development had warranted the low internally generated revenue accurable to the school.
He said, “Another challenge we have which is the major challenge is decline in enrollment. Atimes you will come here, you will think it is a desert. There are no activities, you will just see lecturers, but there is no students. As I am talking to you now, five departments do not have any student.NCE 1, NCE 2, NCE 3, Degree 1, 2, 3, and 4 not even one student.
“Then the one that have, they are not many and that adds to our inability to generate revenue. There is what we call internally generated revenue, we cannot do that. Most of the IGR of higher institutions comes from the school fees. But we do not have students. What we have is between the neigbourhood of three hundred.
“Because of that, the school has set up what we call enrollment committe or what we call admission committe to know how we can get people, get states to know that Ebonyi State College of Education is here, to know that we can train and retrain the people that will man the primary and secondary schools.
“We know that one of the problem is that one entrace examination is taken. JAMB is taken for colleges of Education, Polytechnics and Universities. One examination is taken. And if you are taken exam and you have a child, you will say put university first, do not go to colleges of education and polytechnics.
“But we want to partner with some individuals and some groups and even government, let them declare scholarship to those that want to study here in Ebonyi State College of Education. I think many will come just because of scholarship. So, these are the challenges that are facing us: funds, decline enrollment will be a thing of the past.
