By PRINCESS EIGBOKHAN ORIH
TCCNEWS

Education has been said to be the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world and the function of education helps humans to think intensively and critically.

Education is also the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. With these facts as a tool, the Ondo State Government governor Arakunrin Rotimi Odunayo Akeredolu has once again repositioned the education sector of the state by reducing the institution fee of Rufus Giwa polytechnic by 30 percent.

Arakunrin Akeredolu made this known through Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo Directorate of Academic Affairs. The approved schedule of school fees for the 2019/2020 academic session for full time students is illustrated in the table below.
INDIGENE NON-INDIGENE
ND1& 2 ND1&2 HND1&2 HND1&2 ND1&2 ND1&2 HND1&2 HND1&2
SCIENCE BASED NON- SCIENCE BASED SCIENCE BASED NON- SCIENCE BASED SCIENCE BASED NON-SCIENCE BASED SCIENCE BASED NON-SCIENCE BASED
70,600.00 67,100.00 77,600.00 72,700.00 77,600.00 74,100.00 86,000.00 81,100.00


This laudable 30 % reduction in the institution fees in the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Ondo state is against the former fees being paid by the students of the polytechnic.

According to Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo Directorate of Academic Affairs. Before the reduction in the institution fees of the Owo poly. The indigene science based student ND 1&2 and non- science based students were paying 91,780.00 and 87,230.00 Naira respectively, while the indigene HND 1&2 science based students and non- science based students were paying 100,880.00 and 94,510.00 Naira respectively.
For the non-indigene ND 1& 2 science based and non-science based students they were paying the sun of 100,880.00 and 96,330.00 Naira respectively. As for the non-indigene HND1 & 2 science and Non science based students were paying 111,800.00 and 105,430.00 Naira respectively,


Governor Akeredolu said the reduction in the student’s fees in Owo poly is to encourage parents to send their children to a higher institution in the state. he said no Government owned school will be neglected under his watch and his administration is working tirelessly to ensure that his vision as the leader of the State is felt in all sectors and sub-sectors of Education in Ondo state.


According to Akeredolu, his is concerned about building and improving the educational sector, creating better classrooms for the students across the State is to ensure that the youths in Ondo state can afford the deserved education required to improve their live and be better individuals in the nearest future.


He further explained that there is no investment greater than education so whatever is being invested in the youths was done for the future.

The Governor said the World Health Organization (WHO) said and I quote’’ to us at a point that the life of a child is worth more than billions invested in some companies so Let us unearth the hidden potentials of our youths, that is our goal’’.


He assured the people that the next stage of development in education will be in the areas of employment. He added that the rebirth of Ondo State Education Endowment Fund, OSEEF, was targeted at bridging the funding gap in the education sector.


Akeredolu said this present Government has developed the Blueprint to Progress a policy document which encapsulates the five cardinal programs of this administration which education plays a vital role in.


The Ondo State Governor said under his leadership there has been regular release of subventions to tertiary institutions in Ondo state, appointments of teachers as directors in TESCOM, regular promotion of non-teaching staff and both completed and on-going construction and renovation of schools in all the senatorial district and local governments in Ondo state.

PRINCESS EIGBOKHAN ORIH
TCCNEWS