Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye in Ogun has announced that students will go home with both their degree certificates and examination transcripts from its 34th convocation, which began this week and ends on January 31, an initiative unprecedented in the history of Nigeria’s tertiary education.
OOU Vice Chancellor Ayodeji Agboola, a professor, announced the plan at a conference on the convocation, saying the certificates are already signed and would be issued to graduands at the convocation along with transcripts and commemorative plaques.
It takes an average two years to obtain a degree certificate after graduation, and transcripts are usually not handed to existing or former students, they are issued to a third party – an embassy or another school – at the request of an alum.
Agboola said a total 6,209 undergraduates (5,793 regular, 416 part-time) will convoke for the 2023/24 academic session, and a total 741 postgraduate students will be conferred with diplomas and degrees, comprising 571 PGD/Masters and 170 PhDs.
Some 115 students will graduate with First Class honours, an increase of 16.16 per cent over 99 in the 2022/2023 session.
Up to 1,845 will graduate with Second Class honours (upper division), 3044 (Second Class, lower division), 688 (Third Class), 35 (Pass), as well as 66 (unclassified) from medical programme.
According to Agboola, the high point of the programme will be the Convocation Lecture entitled, “TETFund and Educational Development in Nigeria: the History, the Treasures and the Future”, to be delivered on January 31 by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Executive Secretary, Sunny Echono.
He applauded the exploits of OOU in Artificial Intelligence (AI), 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.”
He added: “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.”
Aisha AanuOluwapo Dauda from the department of economics emerged the overall best-graduating student with a Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA) of 4.87.
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