Education
COVID-19: BOWEN University to sacks over 100 staff
The Management of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, is set to disengage some of its staff, effective from July 2020.
The affected staff represents 12 percent of the university’s workforce,
According to a release signed by the Director, Directorate of Parents and Corporate Affairs, the university has had to take a decision to ‘rightsize’ as part of the effect of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world.
The right-sizing cuts across all strata of the university – Academic Staff, Senior Non-teaching Staff, Secretarial and Junior Staff.
The Institution also stated that it had embarked on capital investments on technological resources to ensure the efficacy of virtual teaching.
The release reads in part: “The national lockdown is taking its toll on the university as it is the national and global economies.
“The university has to date, paid full salaries in a timely manner to all members of staff. However, it would be foolhardy to continue without reviewing our strategy as the pandemic continues to ravage the world and the end is not in sight.
“Since the university adopted more technology in its service delivery, some staff positions became surplus and had to be exempted from the system.
“To this end, the university has had to take a decision to rightsize. From July, 2020, the university will disengage 12% of its staff.
“The right-sizing cuts across all strata of the university – Academic Staff, Senior Nonteaching Staff, Secretarial and Junior Staff.
“This decision was not taken with levity, rather with all seriousness and due consideration of its implications. Management is careful to empathize with those affected and ensure they are given their rightful entitlements.
“Since the university adopted more technology in its service delivery, some staff positions became surplus and had to be exempted from the system.
“Management wishes to assure parents and students alike, that the quality of service delivery will not be compromised, rather, it will be enhanced”.
“This decision was not taken with levity, rather with all seriousness and due consideration of its implications. Management is careful to empathize with those affected and ensure they are given their rightful entitlements”, the statement read.
It was, however, gathered that the affected members of staff, are not prepared to take the decision to sack them lightly, as they are preparing to protest the decision of the University.
Education
OAU Reduce Student’s Tuition fees
The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, have adjusted the fees that students of the institution would be paying for this session.
A statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, indicated that fresh students in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Humanities would pay N151,200 while their returning counterparts would pay N89,200.
The statement said that new students in the Faculties of Technology and Science would pay N163,200 while returning students would pay N101,200.
It said that fresh students in the Faculties of the College of Health Sciences and Pharmacy would pay N190,200 while the old students would pay N128,200 respectively.
“The decision was taken by the Senate of the university at its emergency meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
“The management, therefore, wishes the students resounding success in their academic programs,” he said.
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