Eze Maryjoseph....
There have been wagging of tongues by
both the wags and the mean inside and
outside of IMT Campus 3 about the recent
massive admission of new students into the
school.
An observant walk around the school
environment and some classrooms will
reveal that truly, IMT admitted more
students this year.
For example, a research by one of our
reporters at the Mass Communication
department, reveals that the current OND2
class admitted in the 2014/2015 Academic
year are not more than 100 in their
classroom but the OND1 students admitted
in this 2015/2016 Academic year are above
400 in number.
Some are lamenting that IMT has gone to
her conventional old way of admitting much
students which undisputably, have adverse
effect on students in some cases and make
the school system, some what not sanitised
as it was, the past few years. An era of
sorting, endless strikes, incessant slumping
of students due to over-populated
classrooms, among other vices.
Unfortunately, this lamentation is uncalled-
for as the Rector knows his onus and is
aware of his actions.
One of our researchers reveals that the
reason for the mass admission of students
into the school is because of the available
finance for management and massive
structures around the school. He buttresses
his point by citing a statement by the
School Rector on an interview with The Sun
Newspaper (last year) when there are less
students in the school unlike now.
The Rector explained the need for
expanding the carrying capacity of the
polytechnic, saying: “There is also the
financial consideration that our IGR of 7000
cannot carry anything; so we also got
approval from the NBTE that as long as we
can expand our physical resource based we
will be allowed to also expand our student
population. So the impetus was left on us to
aggressively improve our physical facilities.
“So we decided to provide more classrooms,
equip more laboratories, equip our libraries,
have a modern ICT Centre, better teaching
and learning environment; and we also
strengthened our admission processes to
ensure that only qualified students were
offered admission here. These were in
keeping with NBTE guidelines and when they
came on resource inspection they were able
to approve increases in our student
population. So from the 7000 we increased
in the first year to 9000; currently (last
year) we are 11,028 students; and hoping
that with all the massive infrastructural
development we have on ground, in the
2015/16 academic year we should be able
to hit 15,000 without incurring the anger of
NBTE.
“Our projection is that for the 2015 we
should target 15, 000 students; for the
2016/2017 I am targeting 20,000. So it will
continue to grow as long as we continue to
expand our resource base. For example in
the 2015/16 academic year I am going to
have about 3,200 additional sitting space;
we are getting classroom blocks of 400
sitting capacity each for School of Financial
studies, School of Arts and Design, School
of Environmental Design. We are also
increasing capacities for School of
Engineering, the building is almost
completed and will have additional 800
students; then the School of Technology an
additional 800. And our library will be in use
in the next two months.”
Also, Comrade Cletus Agbowo, Chairman,
Non Academic Staff of Union (NASU), IMT
branch expressed satisfaction with the work
being done by the IMT management. “The
present management has done well to
ameliorate the problems of IMT. If you go
down to Campus 3, you will see a lot of
structures. The management has put a lot
of structures on ground, we commissioned a
new auditorium that can carry about 800
students recently. With the pace of
development by the management, give IMT
two more years and they can pay salaries
from IGR even if government did not provide
subvention for two to three months. So in
terms of structure and development one can
comfortably say that we have a new IMT…”
Prof. Iloeje noted that before he assumed
office, the state government was giving the
institution N20m as subvention at a time
when student population was 35,000. Since
the IGR was high, there was nothing to
worry about. But when student population
tumbled down to 7000, things became
difficult. “I presented the facts and figures
on the basis of which the government then
approved an increase of our monthly
subvention to N120m monthly. Now, my
current salary wage bill is N160m a month;
so what we do is that when we get the
government subvention, we go to our IGR
and bring N40m and discharge salaries. This
has been working for IMT and as a rule,
salaries are paid on or before 25th of every
month.
The above points, among others are reasons
IMT admitted more students this Academic
year.
Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/imt-
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