LASPOTECH to become university soon

Rector of Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Olayinka Sogunro, has said that the school will soon assume a higher status of a university, which will run National Diploma and Higher National Diploma alongside BSc programmes.
Sogunro announced this at a meeting of the Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN), which was organised by the institution’s School of Communication and Liberal Studies, in conjunction with Diamond Award for Media Excellence.
Sogunro said distinct from conventional universities, LASPOTECH on becoming a university, would run National Diploma and Higher National Diploma alongside B.Sc. programmes.
“We are working on the upgrade of this polytechnic to a university status, but our university will be different from the conventional universities because we are not going to abandon our National Diploma and Higher National Diploma programmes.
“We are going to run them concurrently so that students would have acquired the necessary skills and theoretical path upon graduation.’’
Sogunro further stated that Lagos state government had promised to improve LASPOTECH’s learning environment to meet its new status.
“Gov Akinwunmi Ambode said that he would provide a befitting 5,000-capacity auditorium estimated at N3.2 billion, an administration block that was to cost N1.9 billion in 2003, and students’ hostels.’’
Sogunro thus advised staff and students of the institution to improve the quality of their research works, saying that the survival of any economy would depend on the quality of its human resources.

 

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