Delta Govt Moves To Upgrade 3 Institutions To Universities
Delta State Government has disclosed plans to covert the College of Education, Agbor, Anwai Campus of the Delta State University DELSU, and the state-owned polytechnic in Ozoro in Isoko North to full-fledged universities.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa announced this in separate Bills to the state house of assembly and were read on the floor by its speaker, Sheriff Oborevwori, during Tuesday plenary.
Okowa is seeking the conversion of College of Education, Agbor, to Delta State University of Education, Agbor, Delta State University, Anwai Campus, to Delta State University of Science and Agriculture, Anwai and Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro, to Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro.
According to the letter by the governor announcing the introduction of the bills urged the lawmakers to give necessary legislative actions to the three bills.
Agbor is a few metres drive from Owa Oyibu where the state government has also built teaching institute for teachers in the state while Anwai is a community near Asaba, the state capital, with a campus of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka.
The Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, one of the polytechnics founded during the administration of former Governor James Ibori, will be upgraded to Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro.
Governor Okowa in the letter to the House said the proposed laws are to upgrade three existing higher institutions in the state to statues of Universities.
Oborevwori explained that the governor in the letter posited that the move was as a result of continuous increase in the number of Deltans jostling for space into the few existing universities due to increase in the number of admission seekers. He further stated that the decision was also to meet up with the federal government decision to upgrade educational and technical education in the country by having degree awarding institutions in these areas.
The three bills have been slated for first reading on Wednesday, 28th January 2021.
source: Leadership Newspaper
