LAUTECH: A University Of Technology Only On Paper – Student Writes Open Letter To Vice Chacellor

An Open Letter To The Vice Chancellor
By Olaniyan Opeyemi
22nd of June, 2018

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH in recent time has maintained it position as one the leading institute of technology in Nigeria, but that this feat is vastly becoming a fad is not an understatement. The preternaturalness of this professed institute of technology scan from stem to stern. This piece promises to be incisive and not obtuse, constructive and not defamatory, pity and not lengthy, as I begin with a prolegomenon, I will end it with a synopsis.

One of the goals of an institution of higher learning is to serve as a resource centre for public and private sectors, government and the society. It is to serve as a bedrock of knowledge and manpower for industries and cooperate organisation. Under this stated objective, a university of technology is expected to operate. An institute of technology should teach under cutting-edge technological innovations, well equipped classroom/lecture halls, standard laboratories the list is endless. But what we see today in LAUTECH is a dilapidated structure, lecture halls with no public address system, poor ventilation, interrupted power supply, no boards to write on, I will exhaust the whole pages writing the list.

Drama continue to unfold at 1200 lecture theatre and all others 100 level halls during my days in 100 level as the tussle to get a sit in front of the halls became a daily rat race; everybody wants to see what the lecturer is writing on the board. A university of technology still in the hurdle for markers to write on white boards, how will a student sitting at the back of MKO lecture theatre see what is written on the board. Oh! have I forgotten that there is no board in that hall, the same story for 250LT, SIFAX LT, FPAS and gay 1000. The boards in those halls are either non available or not in a proper condition. Using projectors in all our major halls shouldn’t be a pipeline dream, it is achievable. Let there be two/three projectors in 1200LT, two projectors in MKO LT, SIFAX, FPAS and gay and perhaps one projector in 250LT depending on the capacity of the hall. The management should not only be concerned with their 7-months unpaid salaries but also the welfarism of students. There are even some tutorial centres in Ibadan and Lagos that don’t write on the board, how much more a university of technology.



It is laughable that students in some department contribute to purchase public address system in lieu of the faulty/malfunctioning ones. Getting few hours of uninterrupted power supply during lectures has become mission impossible, several lectures has been cancelled as a result of this. How will a lecturer teach effectively in a 1200LT full to the brim without a public address system? It is highly opprobrious and contumelious that a university of technology still rely on IBEDC as it major source of power, running our halls of lecture on solar energy shouldn’t be an illusion, even my secondary school run it ICT centre on this same source of energy, why not a university acclaimed to be technologically inclined. All we need is an uninterrupted power supply in all our halls for 12hours (7am-7pm, major hours of lectures). Installing solar energy on all these halls won’t cost much after all the lecturers enjoy this in their offices. Why not our halls?

Though we cannot extricate from the fact that the underfunding of the institution by the two owner state has put the institution in this state, but if we continue to dwell in the past when do we move forward. The management can do more, we can produce more than one Daboh Ezra who made a 5.0 last session by putting all the neccesary facilities in place. Making a perfect CGPA of 5.0 has become a norm in the university of Ibadan, that is what you get when the needed tools for learning is made available.

When last did the deans of faculties take a walk round the lecture halls to see what is going on?

What is even technological about this school?

Or perhaps the word technology is just a facade.

NOTE: This Open Letter was written by Olaniyan Opeyemi, A student from the institution (LAUTECH).

CONTACT: olaniyan1043@gmail.com

Source:http://www.lekzyloaded.com/others/lautech-a-university-of-technology-only-on-paper-student-writes-open-letter-to-vice-chacellor

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