By Abdullahi U. Danbakaba
The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Abdullahi Bala fsssn has charged all departments in the University to produce a product that will be available for use in the society in line with his administration’s policy, of “One Programme, One Product”.
He made the charge recently during the launch of a workshop set up by the Department of Physics at the Physics Laboratory, Bosso Campus.
Prof. Bala said that the policy was meant to bridge the vacuum which had been created as a result of the neglect of one of the basic functions of a university, noting that, though FUT, Minna had quiet a lot of achievements and strides in research and had performed marvellously in teaching, producing thousands of graduates and the institution is rated among the top four universities in the country in terms of employability of its products, it seems to have forgotten community service as fundamental mandate.
“The University must wake up and begin to do things that the community will see; tangible products that the University will be associated with. And that is essence of One Programme, One Product policy,” the Vice-Chancellor emphasized.
He also stressed the need for effective utilization of knowledge generated through research in order to improve standard of living of the community.
Prof. Bala also enjoined the students to seize the opportunity of having the workshop to acquire skills, stressing that setting up of the workshop and imparting of skills on the students would go a long way in inculcating in them the culture of entrepreneurship as well as the culture of community development..
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