The Vice Chancellor of the Plateau State University (PLASU) Bokkos, Prof. Shedrack Best, has called for a pertinent consideration, solicited for the upward review of the institution’s monthly subversion to enable it take care of the expansion Programme of the University.
The Vice Chancellor made the appeal call recently, when he received team of Committee constituted by Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, to review and streamline programmes in all the state owned tertiary institutions who visited the University.
While admitting that alot of expansion in infrastructure, academic programmes and students population were quite commendable, Prof. Best appealed to the committee to forward recommendations that would engage local government authorities to key into financial capacity support to complement State Government efforts.
He commended the State government for the prompt remittance of monthly subversion to the institution, but appealed for the upward review of it to enable the University meet up with challenges the institution was faced with.
Represented by Deputy Vice Chancellor Academics , Professor Moses Galadima, the Vice Chancellor highlighted some of the institution’s challenges to include; insecurity, shortage of hostel accommodation, lack of staff quarters, need for the expansion of the library and payment of compensation to the locals to fast tract expansion of structures among others.
He, however, revealed that the National Universities Commission (NUC), has given an approval for the University to run additional academic programmes to the existing sixteen Post Graduate Diploma, hence the need to recruit more staff.
Chairman of the Review Committee, Professor William Qurix, noted that the University community was in the best position to furnish them with their challenges for them committee to come up with recommendations that would put the Institution on a modern pedestrian that would be in line with the twenty first century trends.
Meanwhile, the team embarked on an on-the-spot assessment tour of facilities which included, the Institution’s Entrepreneurship Centre where interact with heads of the various units on their operations, challenges and what need to be done to improve their services.
The climax of the visit was town hall meeting with the committee members and the University community as well as as payed homage on the Acting Saf Kulere , Lawrence Aizat, at his residence in Bokkos for Royal blessings.
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